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Ramirez v. Turner-991 F.2d 351 (7th Cir. 1993)

Case • 1993

as one of the sanctions. [17] One may question what such forfeiture meant. Ramirez is serving a life term and was not entitled to good time allowances under 18 U.S.C. § 4161 or § 4162 (repealed ...

Hanson v. Sagamon County Sheriff's Department-991 F. Supp. 1059 (C.D.III 1998)

Case • 1998

be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right. This is not to say that an official action is protected by qualified immunity unless the very action ...

Amatel v. Reno-975 F. Supp. 365 (D DC 1997)

Case • 1997

for rehabilitation. Rather, the Ensign Amendment is a content-based statute with a sole focus on the sexual nature of the publications it seeks to prohibit. The Ensign Amendment on its face does exactly what the 1979 ...

Higganson v. Swihart-980 F. Supp. 296 (ND IL 1997)

Case • 1997

, and one of these debits even predates the enactment of the PLRA. There is no notation as to which district court these payments went, or what cause numbers they were in payment for. The plaintiff's ...

Britt v. Chiles-704 So.2d 1046 (Fla. S.Ct. 1997)

Case • 1997

by it' by altering the definition of criminal conduct or increasing the punishment for the crime." 117 S. Ct. at 896 (citations omitted). The statute at issue, section 944.281, changes the method of determining what ...

Hemmings v. Gorczyk-134 F.3d 104 (2nd Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

in Vermont, alleging civil rights violations during his period of confinement in the Southwest Regional Correctional Facility in Rutland, Vermont ("Southwest"). n1 We limit our discussion to what we believe ...

Weiler v. Purkett-137 F.3d 1047 (8th Cir. 1998)(en banc)

Case • 1998

, it is still not exactly clear what constitutional right Weiler seeks to vindicate. He has, at various times, claimed interference with his right to receive mail, obstruction of his right of access to the courts ...

Carmona v. U.S. Bureau of Prisons-243 F.3d 629 (2nd Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

remedies are no longer available to him. We have not addressed the issue of precisely under what circumstances a federal prisoner, despite failing to exhaust his administrative remedies, may bring a § 2241 ...

Wilson v. Jones-251 F.3d 1340 (11th Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

dictate, that is, truly compel (not just suggest or allow or raise a question about), the conclusion for every like-situated, reasonable government agent that what defendant is doing violates federal law ...

Mixon v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania-759 A.2d 442 (PA Cmnwlth 2000)

Case • 2000

the interest that appellees seek to protect as a criminal defendants' interest in the confrontation of a witness at trial, Secretary Kane minimizes what is truly at stake in this action. The interest sought ...

White v. Scibana-390 F.3d 997 (7th Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

assessment and award of credit appears to be at the core of what the good-time statute is all about.*fn3 To interpret "term of imprisonment" as "sentence imposed" for purposes of awarding good-time credit ...

Brown v. Palmateer-379 F.3d 1089 (9th Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

that convention. [61] *fn2 The opinion from the Oregon Court of Appeal cited in the dissent is an affirmance without opinion, and accordingly, we are unable to discern what significance, if any, the Oregon ...

Bennett v. Goord-343 F.3d 133 (2nd Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

of the disciplinary charges, so that he could be transferred. *fn7 DOCS offered only a conclusory denial of these allegations, failing to submit affidavits or any other admissible evidence concerning what Collins ...

Bruce v. Ylst-351 F.3d 1283 (9th Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

Washington what evidence was being used against me, he refused to say except to state, 'it was already in your c-file when it was sent to our office.' [45] [7] These statements combined with the suspect ...

Pacheco-Camacho v. Hood-272 F.3d 1266 (9th Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

the agency's interpretation "is based on a permissible construction of the statute." Id. at 843. [21] In this case, the words of the statute do not provide clear guidance as to what the phrase "term ...

Austin v. Wilkinson-204 F.Supp.2d 1024 (ND OH 2002)

Case • 2002

reduction. Such notice will advise the inmate what specific conduct is necessary for that prisoner to be reduced from Level 5 and the amount of time it will take before the defendants' reduce the inmate's ...

Ducally v. Rhode Island Dept of Corrections-160 F.Supp.2d 220 (D RI 2001)

Case • 2001

objection is lodged." Id. at 320. What is required to establish the unnecessary and [**12] wanton infliction of pain varies according to the nature of the alleged Eighth Amendment violation. Hudson v ...

Moore v. Plaster-266 F.3d 928 (8th Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

Plaster. Mr. Moore also claims that he passed the lie detector test, but Investigator Plaster indicated that the test results showed deception. There appears to be an issue of fact as to what the test ...

Doan v. Watson-168 F.Supp.2d 932 (SD IN 2001)

Case • 2001

actor would know that what they were doing violated the Constitution or if a closely analogous case establishes that the conduct is unconstitutional." Willits v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 2001 U.S. Dist ...

Jordan v. State-54 S.W. 3d 783 (Tex. Crim. App. 2001)

Case • 2001

with Dillehey v. State, 815 S.W.2d 623 (Tex. Crim. App.1991). Manuel, 994 S.W.2d at 661. In Dillehey, the court's rationale in interpreting art. 44.01(j) was explicitly based on what it perceived to be the intent ...