prison-policy
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-1166 | D. K. Williams, Warden, et al. v. Rafiq Sabir, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Dismissed | civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process group-prayer inmate-rights prison-policy qualified-immunity religious-freedom-restoration-act | 1. Are RFRA claims exempt from the normally applicable qualified immunity requirement not to define clearly established law at a high level of general… | |
| 22-6054 | Stephen Barbee v. Bryan Collier, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-15 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment execution-chamber fifth-circuit first-amendment free-exercise prison-litigation-reform-act prison-policy religious-rights rluipa spiritual-advisor | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in vacating as an abuse of discretion the injunction requiring TDCJ to publish a clear policy where the district co… |
| 21-1405 | Lester J. Smith v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-06 | Denied | Amici (8) | accommodation circuit-court-review circuit-split civil-rights deference penological-interests prison-policy prisoners-rights religious-freedom religious-liberty rluipa | In Knight v. Thompson , the Eleventh Circuit concluded —on remand following Holt v. Hobbs , 574 U.S. 352 (2015) —that the Religious Land Use and Insti… |
| 21-7288 | Rolandis Larenzo Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force inmate-treatment prison prison-policy standing | 1.) Has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit created a harmful precedent that would establish that an officer/ prison guard could give a c… |
| 21-7105 | Charles E. Sisney v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment less-restrictive-alternative penological-interest prison-censorship prison-policy turner-factors turner-v-safley | 1. It is settled that inmates in state and federal prisons retain First Amendment rights consistent with the application of the four factors set forth… |
| 20-6717 | Jay S. Kravitz v. Kenneth Leis, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-12-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance-procedure incarceration-rights prison-policy religious-freedom summary-judgment | Whether Petitioner presented an underlying First Amendment Constitutional violation in complaining of Respondents' depriving him of the use of Tefilli… |
| 20-6258 | Arthur L. Campbell v. Cynthia Gause, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights first-amendment free-exercise islam judicial-review prison-policy religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation substantial-burden | THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR, CONTRARY TO 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq., WHEN IT ABDICATED THE RESPONSIBILITY, CONFERRED BY CONGRESS ON THE COU… |
| 19-8246 | Gregory Thomas v. Tom Corbett, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2020-04-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | cellmate-discrimination civil-rights conjugal-visit due-process fourth-amendment institutionalized-persons-act prison-policy privacy property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use search-and-seizure | 1. Whether the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Visiting policy violates the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act of 2000, U.S.C.… |
| 19-8008 | Jeremy Fontanez v. J. Coakley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-policy prisoner-rights | Does B.O.P. Policy 1315.007 "Legal Activities, Inmates," violate a Federal prisoner's First Amendment Right to reasonable access to the state court, w… |
| 18-1172 | Tynisa Williams v. City of Cleveland, Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | civil-rights delousing detainee-rights due-process fourth-amendment penological-interests prison-policy privacy-rights reasonable-alternatives reasonable-search strip-search | Whether the court below erroneously held that the physical delousing of all detainees entering the Cleveland Workhouse, whereby delousing solution was… | |
| 18-5055 | Mitchell Stevens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-exercise free-speech prison-policy religious-accommodation standing takings | (1) whethoR the CouRt of Appeals RExedeRed A decision which conFlicts with this couRt 2nd decisioxs OF It's own CoaRt, whon It Ruld thAt 2 dismiss Al … |