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12 Oct 2022, 8:28 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Hannah Mirzoeff has posted The Prison Litigation Reform Act Exhaustion Requirement: How a Legislative Decision from 1996 Is Controlling COVID-19 Conditions inside Correctional Facilities, and What Can Be Done to Fix It (Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 5, 2022)... [read post]
11 Sep 2022, 8:40 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
That verdict is now gone, the victim of both the Prison Litigation Reform Act and qualified immunity.The case is Walker v. [read post]
14 Jul 2022, 6:38 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, inmates must file an internal grievance with the jail before they can bring suit in federal court over their civil rights violations. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 5:01 am by Peter Margulies
As part of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), expedited removal was itself an effort to bypass the then-current default procedure for asylum adjudication, which entailed a full hearing before an immigration judge in the Justice Department. [read post]
16 Aug 2020, 4:48 am by SHG
On the one hand, mass incarceration is a fact, and a fact that is not only worthy of note but worthy of serious reform for a great many reasons, one of which is the impact on children who lose a parent to prison. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 10:07 am by Derek T. Muller
But I wonder if it’s fair to say that the 104th Congress’s lawmaking in 1995 and 1996 represented the last high water mark of legislation, in an era today bogged down with divided government, heightened partisanship in each party and separating them from one another, inaction from the out-of-power party, increased use of the filibuster, and so on.To name a few statutes enacted in this era, with Wikipedia links: the Lobbying Disclosure Act, the Private Securities… [read post]
8 Jun 2020, 12:12 pm by Margo Schlanger
Ortiz-Marquez, this term’s case about the hastily drafted and much-litigated 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
26 May 2020, 11:35 am by Nkechi Taifa
She was active in every major reparations movement until her death in 1996. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 8:09 am by Margo Schlanger
Ortiz-Marquez, this term’s case about the hastily drafted and much-litigated 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 10:00 am by Margo Schlanger
In 1996, Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which tightened up prisoners’ access to federal civil litigation in many ways. [read post]
31 Dec 2019, 4:40 am by Ben
 Other works included Kahil Gibran’s "The Prophet", Virginia Woolf’s "Jacob’s Room", Agatha Christie’s "The Murder on the Links", Marcel Proust’s "The Prisoner" (La Prisonnière, vol. 5 of In Search of Lost Time), William Carlos Williams’s "The Great American Novel", H. [read post]
2 Oct 2019, 10:21 am by Deborah Heller
However, Louisiana has a non-unanimous verdict law and so a guilty verdict was entered against petitioner and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [read post]
19 Jul 2019, 1:48 pm by Apsosredesign
Abuse in prison Despite the years of reporting him, hospital records from her injuries caused by him, and the fact she was acting in self-defense, Sarah was still sentenced to 15 years in prison and convicted as a felon. [read post]
30 Jun 2019, 8:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
An under-examined aspect of evaluating "progressive" prosecutors will be how they respond to appeals challenging unconstitutional practices and other reform litigation. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 2:00 pm
  But the federal courts' oversight role has been sharply limited by the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 5:00 am by Peter Margulies
As Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted during last week’s argument, Congress enacted the provision in 1996, as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, because legislators believed that some noncitizens had failed to appear at removal hearings, thereby frustrating immigration enforcement. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 10:30 am
In 1996, Congress passed, and President Clinton, signed the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which establishes an array of burdens and hurdles that apply to prisoners — and only to prisoners — who seek to enforce their rights in federal court. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 6:59 am by Edith Roberts
Arthur Spiegel in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1994-96 and then to Judge Nathaniel Jones on the 6th Circuit from 1996-97. [read post]