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1 Mar 2007, 5:09 am
The Florida Litigation Center reports that Stephen Michael Smith, 34, of Middleburg, Florida was recently sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Honorable Henry Lee Adams, Jr., United States District Judge in the Jacksonville Division of the Middle District of... [read post]
2 May 2018, 5:13 am
Lewis was indicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on one count of bank robbery. [read post]
24 Mar 2015, 12:54 pm by J. Bradley Smith, Esq.
  Like countless mothers across the United States, Laura Strange spent two hours cradling her newborn daughter Haley in her arms. [read post]
7 Jan 2012, 9:03 am by Alfred Brophy
  I noticed that one very keen observer of African American legal history (wink) said of the book:  From Black Power to Prison Power feels stunningly new—a book about a prison union, which most of us know absolutely nothing about, even though their case traveled all the way to the United States Supreme Court in 1977. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 3:49 am by John Marshall
His primary argument was apparently that the prisoners of war convention mandated a return of Mr. [read post]
18 May 2015, 1:45 pm by Steve Vladeck
As we summarized in our argument preview, the issue before the Court arises from the language of the so-called “three strikes” provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996, 28 U.S.C. [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 2:00 am
Magnuson, of the United States District Court of Minnesota.Did that make him a wolf in medical clothing? [read post]
23 May 2011, 7:42 am by Kent Scheidegger
  With both houses of Congress in the hands of persons of sense, the Prison Litigation Reform Act can be tweaked to present travesties such as this. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 6:30 am
LEXIS 56789 (D MA, July 25, 2008), a Massachusetts federal district court awarded a Boston law firm $237,299.25 in attorneys' fees and $13,630.17 in costs in connection with litigation in which the firm successfully vindicated the right of Muslim prisoners in the prison's special management unit to have Halal meals and have access to Friday Ju'mah services through closed circuit television.In Johnson v. [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 8:22 am by Corene Kendrick
It is extraordinary not only in prison litigation but in all civil rights impact litigation for a federal court to find state officials in contempt twice in three years, and then to re-set a settled case for trial. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 6:55 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act in the mid-1990s because they wanted to curb inmate litigation. [read post]
4 Dec 2015, 7:28 am by Steve Vladeck
United States both (1) is "substantive" (and therefore retroactively enforceable by federal prisoners filing their initial claims for collateral post-conviction relief); and (2) has been "made retroactive" by the Supreme Court (and can therefore provide the basis for a second-or-successive application for collateral post-conviction relief). [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 8:49 am by Dave Maass
In response to unrelated litigation, SCDC also said it would cap solitary confinement at 60 days. [read post]
22 Apr 2022, 7:35 am by Eve Brensike Primus
But, the majority pointed out, Holbrook was not a harmless-error case, and AEDPA does not permit litigants to try to extend precedent into new contexts. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 1:54 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Given ongoing litigation about excessive heat in un-air conditioned Texas prison units, this tidbit stuck out at me:"Our ‘turnkey solution’ is ideal for environments where the site must be closely controlled for security reasons," he continues. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 2:00 am
”Ironically, these two smugglers found themselves being openly transported off to prison.# # #USDOJ PRESS RELEASE ~ 09.15.23 [read post]