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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]
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]
28 Jan 2009, 9:40 am
” Any estimate of the total losses caused by Ponzi schemes is likely to understate, because litigated cases ignore those schemes in which the collapse is so complete that there is no hope of recovery and hence no incentive for litigation. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 12:03 am
The magistrate judge instructed both sides to brief the issue of whether Madoff's actions qualified as a basis for finding he posed a harm to the community under the Bail Reform Act. [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]
18 Sep 2008, 8:56 pm
Conference of September 29, 2008 __________________ Docket: 07-811 Case name: Morris, et al. v Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc. et al. [read post]
22 Apr 2008, 1:10 pm
April 24th is the 12th anniversary of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, an important day far too few of us will even be aware of. [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 2:04 pm
The two acts are inseparable; without litigation, the extent of the right-holders actual rights are not defined, and thus not enforced.In a related vein, sometimes litigation itself creates copyrights for rights-holders. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 10:45 am
Rev. 1367 (1996). [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 9:44 pm
Just over one third of executing jurisdictions - 13 states - have formal execution protocols though recent court litigation suggests a lack of knowledge of the procedures by corrections staff and unreliable implementation of procedures in many cases. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 10:41 pm
What is more, prisoners' ability to legally challenge their living conditions has been curtailed by a congressional roadblock called the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996, which has cut in half the number of inmates filing civil rights complaints.A third book review focuses on the effects of mass incarceration on voter disenfranchisement. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 9:47 pm
Gore (1996) that seemed to allow punishment for harm to others. [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 8:27 am
Evans in 1996. [read post]
