No. 21-7498

Eric Lloyd Hermansen v. Anna Valentine, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-03-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: atypical-hardship civil-rights constitutional-protection covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus health-complications prisoner-rights
Latest Conference: 2022-05-26
Question Presented (from Petition)

Are State prisoners protected under this Court's decision in Helling v. McKinney from being forcibly subjected to its unknown health complications/ exascerbation COVID-19 of high risk medical issues and death?

Does forcibly subjecting a State prisoner to COVID-19 - its unknown health complications/ exascerbation of high risk medical issues and death constitute an "atypical and significant hardship" held by this Court in Wilkinson v. Austin?

Are State prisoners protected under the Due Process of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution from being forcibly subjected to COVID-19 its unknown health complications/ exascerbation of high risk medical issues and death authorizing habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Are state prisoners protected from COVID-19 exposure?

Docket Entries

2022-05-31
Petition DENIED.
2022-05-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/26/2022.
2022-02-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 29, 2022)

Attorneys

Eric Lloyd Hermansen
Eric Lloyd Hermansen — Petitioner