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29 Jan 2010, 8:36 am
The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), which was signed into law in 1996, was originally intended to prevent the federal courts from being overwhelmed with “frivolous” prisoner lawsuits. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 6:56 am
Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, inmates cannot bring suit in federal court without first grieving their disputes in the jail. [read post]
14 Aug 2009, 11:49 am
But in California conscience dropped out altogether, and its in place, a clumsy kind of control that has come to rely upon blunt racial classifications ("no black visitors today" was a sign that greeted one of the attorneys in the case as he visited a California prison last week) and systematic use of lockdowns (prisoners locked in their cells 24/7 sometimes for weeks at a time) that render any activity other than bare life almost impossible (yes, here the… [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 8:48 am
In 1996, Congress enacted the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA). [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 8:52 am
The case could produce a major ruling on federal judges’ power to order prison releases under the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 7:08 pm
The 46-page report, "No Equal Justice: The Prison Litigation Reform Act in the United States," addresses a law passed by Congress in 1996 that singles out lawsuits brought by prisoners for a host of burdens and restrictions that apply to no one else. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 8:01 am
However, under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, prisoner release orders are also three-judge court cases, and that is the path that gave us the disastrous Brown v. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 5:48 am
Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996, any appeal of the three-judge court's decision goes directly to the Supreme Court, which has "strongly suggested" it will take the case following the panel's final ruling. [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 8:27 am
Evans in 1996. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 8:14 pm
Indeed, in the debates which preceded the introduction of the Bill, one of the many arguments in favour of it was that we would benefit from the margin of appreciation.Put simply, repealing the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a stand-alone Bill of Rights will not create such a 'margin of appreciation' that would allow a another government to circumvent, for instance, Article 3; nor would it allow them to overturn the Chahal judgment - a judgment of the Strasbourg court… [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 9:57 am
The release order is based on the District Court’s interpretation of a 1996 federal law, the Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 6:32 pm
His research focuses on investigating the central issues in modern critical social theory, the obscene excitement in the ‘war on terror’ and the placid pleasures of prison reformers and spectators. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 11:10 am
The $25 million trigger for state regulation was set in the National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996.An amendment offered by Ranking Member Bachus would permit the SEC to delegate responsibility to the broker-dealer SRO, FINRA, to enforce compliance by its members and associated persons with the provisions of the Act. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 2:21 pm
The other concern is that greater compensation for the RP would risk creating “plaintiff mills” such that lead to Private Securities Litigation Reform Act by the US Congress.[9] The experience of criminal convictions for some of the top class actions lawyers in the US indicates the potential for corruption. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 11:55 am
In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court found that the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), which strips lawful permanent residents convicted of a crime of the right to travel abroad with the guarantee of reentry, could not be applied retroactively to a green-card holder who pleaded guilty to an offense prior to 1996 and traveled abroad thereafter. [read post]
30 Jun 2019, 8:51 am
An under-examined aspect of evaluating "progressive" prosecutors will be how they respond to appeals challenging unconstitutional practices and other reform litigation. [read post]
16 Aug 2020, 4:48 am
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]
31 May 2011, 8:20 am
[In case anyone is wondering, Plata was a District Court decision appealed directly to the Supreme Court under the unusual provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
13 May 2012, 2:02 pm
The question in Yemshaw was the meaning of ‘violence’ in s 177(1) of the Housing Act 1996. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 5:54 pm
United StatesDocket: 10-150Issue(s): Whether the Supreme Court can review a decision by a court of appeals that it lacks jurisdiction to review a federal prisoner’s motion based on newly discovered evidence that the prisoner is mentally retarded and therefore constitutionally ineligible for execution, even if that evidence does not negate the prisoner’s guilt; whether, if AEDPA precludes a successive habeas petition in such a scenario, it is… [read post]
