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9 Nov 2014, 6:46 pm
The Commission is a body created under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (Act), as amended, 18 U.S.C. 3551 et seq. (1982 ed., Supp. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 1:28 pm
(The Prison Litigation Reform Act, for example, was placed into a budget bill back in 1996.) [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 3:58 pm
While the 1996 Constitution guarantees judicial independence, the judiciary remains under the administrative control of the Ministry of Justice, which of course answers directly to the King. [read post]
6 May 2014, 9:46 pm
Much of that activity was halted by a very powerful federal law, the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 that set up a 3 strikes system that deprived a prisoner's right to petition the court without paying a filing fee after a judicial determination that he or she had filed 3 frivolous law suits. [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 6:27 am
Today, I’ll talk about whether the federal and state Prison Litigation Reform Acts alter this conclusion in any way. [read post]
23 Jun 2013, 10:07 pm
There are needles in this haystack.At the federal level, Congress responded to the glut of prisoner litigation by the passage of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (“AEDPA”) in 1996. [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 11:11 am
I have some reflections on the great 1996 prisoner litigation reforms in an essay newly uploaded to SSRN. [read post]
Peter Madoff 10 Sentence For Defrauding ERISA Plans Reminder Manage Plan Investment Responsibilities
27 Dec 2012, 3:45 am
The decade he will spend in prison and the disgorgement of his assets are a just result. [read post]
21 May 2012, 9:05 am
Last Thursday’s release of the long-delayed national Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) regulations by the Department of Justice reminds us of the hundreds of prison rape victims we’ve heard from over the years who could not seek justice because the prison officials who failed to protect them were essentially immunized from liability by a 1996 federal law, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). [read post]
17 May 2012, 8:33 am
Herman, Prison Litigation Reform Acts Michael B. [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]
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]
27 Feb 2012, 3:11 am
: les nouveaux processus constituants : actes du colloque sur les nouveaux processus constituants tenu a? [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]
20 Oct 2011, 11:37 am
”Demand for access to healthcare among the prison population is especially high, she explained, given that many inmates suffer from chronic diseases prevalent among the poor while others are afflicted with untreated psychological conditions.The need for prison healthcare reform has become still more pressing, Winter noted, since the extension of prison sentences by the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. [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]
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]
21 Jun 2011, 6:45 am
We will begin by implementing the Prisoners’ Earnings Act 1996 and legislating to extend our powers to deduct and use money earned by prisoners to support victims; and · Overhauling unpaid work obligations so that offenders work longer hours, carrying out purposeful, unpaid activity that benefits their local community; Progression · Getting more offenders off drugs and alcohol for good, by piloting an initial five drug recovery… [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]
23 May 2011, 12:54 pm
The decision upheld what clearly is the most sweeping inmate release order in the 15-year history of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, a federal law that Congress passed to set new standards to govern when federal courts order prisoners be set free. [read post]
