No. 20-7127
Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al.
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: bivens bivens-action civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-prisoner federal-prisons injunctive-relief municipal-liability standing
Latest Conference:
2021-04-01
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Does Ziglar V Abbasi, 582 US_
137 S Ct
198 L Ed 2d
290 (2017) in deciding a private right of action under
Bivens, apply to a Federal Prisoner held on a criminalconviction
within the Federal Bureau of Prisons and files an Eighth
Amendment complaint under the Cruel and Unusual
Punishment clause?
2.
Does Ziglar V Abbasi, 582 US
137 S Ct
198 L Ed 2d
290 (2017) in deciding a private right of action under
Bivens,
apply to 28 USC $2201 & $2202 for Injunctive
Relief?
apply to the Federal Bureau of prisons under Bivens?
(This question is only asking for a remand back to expand
the record on this issue.)
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does Ziglar V Abbasi apply to Eighth Amendment claims by federal prisoners?
Docket Entries
2021-04-05
Petition DENIED.
2021-03-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/1/2021.
2021-03-10
Waiver of right of respondent United States, et al. to respond filed.
2021-01-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 15, 2021)
Attorneys
Clyde Pontefract
Clyde J. Pontefract — Petitioner
United States, et al.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent