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Jane Does I through III v. District of Columbia-216 F.R.D. 5 (D.D.C. 2003)

Case • 2003

F.3d at 108. Thus, in Lorazapam, quite apart from what plaintiffs suggest, the D.C. Circuit explicitly reaffirmed that constitutional standing is a prerequisite to Rule 23 class certification ...

Zakiya v. United States-267 F.Supp.2d 47 (D.D.C. 2003)

Case • 2003

, he has not filed a claim challenging the decision to transfer him to the several facilities where he was detained; what he is actually challenging is the decision to continue his detention beyond ...

North American Specialty Insurance Company v. Correctional Medical Services-527 F.3d 1033 (10th Cir. 2008)

Case • 2008

consistent with the district court's reading of the same language in Correctional Medical Services First, as CMS argues here, the district court in Correctional Medical Services focused on what communications ...

Wilson v. Blankenship-163 F.3d 1284 (11th Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

for every like-situated, reasonable government agent that what defendant is doing violates federal law in the circumstances." Id. By applying these principles, we determine the entitlement of the marshal ...

Simpson v. Horn-25 F.Supp.2d 563 (ED PA 1998)

Case • 1998

conditions which inflict cruel and unusual punishment. What constitutes cruel and unusual punishment is an evolving standard. Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 346, 69 L. Ed. 2d 59, 101 S. Ct. 2392 (1981 ...

Urrutia v. Harrisburg County Police Dept.-91 F.3d 451 (3rd Cir. 1996)

Case • 1996

on remand Urrutia must specify whether he is seeking money damages or injunctive relief or both. If he is seeking injunctive relief, he should be specific about what he is seeking. If he continues to rely ...

Jones v. Huff-789 F. Supp. 526 (ND NY 1992)

Case • 1992

, and Lieutenant Richard Maxwell. Defendants' Exhibit ("Exh.") J, at 38. At the hearing, Lieutenant Maxwell brought up the fight and asked plaintiff to explain what happened. The adjustment committee listened to his ...

John L. v. Adams-969 F.2d 228 (6th Cir. 1992)

Case • 1992

and incarcerated juveniles. Id. at 1158; see Application of Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 12-14, 87 S. Ct. 1428, 1436, 18 L. Ed. 2d 527 (1967).*fn3 [32] The court in Morgan also correctly understood what the Supreme ...

Rascon v. Hardiman-803 F.2d 269 (7th Cir. 1986)

Case • 1986

in the RTU in favor of what was characterized as an ameliorative policy of resolving the matter informally through the intervention of a mental health professional. According to the defendants, this procedure ...

Cabello-Barrueto v. Fernandez-Larios-402 F.3d 1148 (11th Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

held that "tolling means just what it says -- the clock is stopped while tolling is in effect." 292 F.3d 709, 712 (11th Cir. 2002). Although this holding addressed equitable tolling of the Antiterrorism ...

Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy, Inc. v. Czaplews-131 F.Supp.2d 1039 (E.D.Wis. 2001)

Case • 2001

the categories of limited information that can be provided to staff members of the protection and advocacy agency and what steps need to be taken before even those limited items of information can be provided ...

Strougo v. Bea Associates-199 F.R.D. 515 (S.D.N.Y. 2001)

Case • 2001

. Co. v. Columbia Cas. Co., 1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53, 1995 WL 5792, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. January 5, 1995) (internal quotation omitted). "What is important is not whether the parties theoretically share ...

United States v. Kaczynski-551 F.3d 1120 (9th Cir. 2009)

Case • 2009

of restitution. 18 U.S.C. § 3613. Although Kaczynski characterizes his claim as a purely facial legal challenge, on closer examination it appears that in large part what he seeks is an advisory opinion ...

Prison Legal News v. Livingston-U.S. District Court (S.D. Texas, Corpus Christi Division), Case No. 2:09-cv-00296

Case • 2009

. (D.E. 1 at 5.) The relevant section of Page 38 of Women Behind Bars, which led to the TDCJ's decision to censor the book, reads as follows: What is even more remarkable about [Tina] [*4] Thomas ...

King v. Frank-328 F.Supp.2d 940 (W.D.Wis. 2004)

Case • 2004

clearly see his visitors' faces and most of the time he cannot hear or understand what his visitors are saying. When the equipment is not functioning, plaintiff is denied a visit, even though the health ...

In re Burdan-169 Cal. App. 4th 18, 86 Cal. Rptr. 3d 549 (3rd Dist. 2008)

Case • 2008

refused to discuss their marriage problems or her new lover. At one point, the victim said, ?What are you going to do, kill me?? Burdan pulled out the handgun and she grabbed it with both hands and started ...

Commonwealth v. Donohue-452 Mass. 256 (Mass. 2008)

Case • 2008

served even more than the legislatively prescribed minimum period of incarceration, it is clear that Donohue had served what might be deemed a ?reasonable period [ ] of confinement? under G.L. c. 127, § 49 ...

Scull v. New Mexico-236 F.3d 588 (10th Cir. 2000)

Case • 2000

hold on to it and either contact the Court and ask them for direction as to what they wanted to do with this - we have a release order, but it's not a valid one."). While we do not endorse the BCDC ...

Brzozowski v. Correctional Physician Services-360 F.3d 173 (3rd Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

] Although entered by consent, it is unconditional, and will remain undisturbed no matter what our ruling on the interlocutory order denying the joinder of Prison. See Bethel v. McAllister Bros., 81 F.3d 376 ...

Pennsylvania v. Finley-481 U.S. 551, 107 S.Ct. 1990, 95 L.Ed.2d 539 (1987

Case • 1987

have only one meaning, no matter what the source of that right. But the fact that the defendant has been afforded assistance of counsel in some form does not end the inquiry for federal constitutional ...