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21 Mar 2011, 12:49 am
The Good The Prisoner Litigation Reform Act was enacted in the mid 1990's in response to the overwhelming amount of inmates who were filing civil rights complaints across the country. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 2:10 pm
When Congress passed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the primary feature was supposed to be a reform that promised states a rapid and efficient trip through federal review if only they provided adequate counsel for state collateral review, which most states did at the time anyway. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 5:16 am
In England the Criminal Procedure and Investigation Act 1996 (CPIA) requires the police to retain all case material until the individual is released from custody . [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 12:54 am
According to data compiled by Adam Savett, the Director of Securities Class Actions at the Claims Compensation Bureau, prior to the recent verdict against Wolff in the Homestore case, there had been a total of ten securities class action lawsuits filed after the 1996 enactment of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and involving post-PSLRA conduct that have gone to all the way through to jury verdict. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 4:07 pm
Huge verdicts and legal costs may not be much of an alternative to a spell in Jinzhou Prison. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 2:09 pm
Ticeson suffered from a mental abnormality and/or personality disorder which made him likely to engage in predatory acts of sexual violence if not confined to a secure facility. [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]
30 Nov 2010, 7:09 am
Plata, presenting the question whether a federal court’s order requiring California to release prisoners to reduce prison overcrowding was consistent with the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 2:20 pm
The lawmakers enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act, with much of the limited debate preceding passage focusing on what the legislators thought were frivolous claims by inmates. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 6:05 am
The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 made it more difficult for inmates to bring federal lawsuits if their prior actions were deemed meritless. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 8:36 am
Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog wrote in his coverage that the merits hearing “could produce a major ruling of federal judges’ power to order prison releases under the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996. [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]
4 Mar 2010, 8:13 am
Cyr that Section 304(b) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (which repealed a provision allowing the Attorney General to waive deportation) does not apply to pre-enactment convictions applies to all immigrants whose convictions pre-date IIRIRA; and (2) whether the presumption against retroactivity applies only when individuals can establish either subjective or objective reliance on prior law. [read post]
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]
21 Jan 2010, 9:45 am
Whatever the politics of swing v. base voters going into, rather than coming out of, a mid-term congressional election (which may be important) it is also worth remembering that what Clinton did in that period was to help enact some of the worst pieces of crime legislation in the history of democratic societies including a host of new federal death penalties, the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the Prison Litigation Reform… [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 6:21 am
Now comes an effort to revise the pleading standard (yes pleading standards, I know) for claims brought under the Prison Litigation Reform Act: Congress included the physical injury requirement in the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which it passed in 1996 to deter inmates from bringing frivolous lawsuits. [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]
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]
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]
3 Sep 2009, 1:24 am
Attorneys say that the promised appeal would appear to be the first Supreme Court challenge of a court-ordered population cap since the enactment of the Prison Litigation Reform Act in 1996. [read post]
