No. 18-9486

Clifford Abshire v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections

Lower Court: Louisiana
Docketed: 2019-05-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest property-interest sandin-v-conner
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess FirstAmendment
Latest Conference: 2020-01-10 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Are prison disciplinary hearings considered 'communicative acts,' entitled to the protections of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED qd) Are prison disciplinary hearings considered “communicative acts,” entitled to the protections of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution? (2) Is this Court’s holding in Sandin v Conner applicable in matters where the appellant has . raised a “property interest,.and not a “liberty interest?” (3) Does this Court’s holding in Sandin v Conner declare a statutory law, as it pertains to the handling of judicial appeal disciplinary hearings, unconstitutional? (4) Did the drafters of the United States Constitution and/or this Court place a monetary amount on the due process clause protections of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution? (5) Does the “protected property” clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution apply to the money in a inmate’s prison account?

Docket Entries

2020-01-13
Rehearing DENIED.
2019-12-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-10-31
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-06-19
Waiver of right of respondent LA DOC to respond filed.
2019-05-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 1, 2019)
2019-03-26
Application (18A967) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until June 7, 2019.
2019-02-22
Application (18A967) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 8, 2019 to June 7, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Clifford Abshire
Clifford Abshire — Petitioner
Clifford Abshire — Petitioner
LA DOC
Elizabeth Baker MurrillOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Elizabeth Baker MurrillOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent