No. 20-582

Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al.

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-11-03
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus Patent
Latest Conference: 2021-01-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawful release date

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTION PRESENTED I. Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his lawful release date. I. Whether dismissal of the Petitioner’s claims violated the Petitioner’s right to a jury trial afforded by the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. 1

Docket Entries

2021-01-11
Petition DENIED.
2020-12-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
2020-12-16
Reply of petitioner Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi filed. (Distributed)
2020-12-03
Brief of respondents South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. in opposition filed.
2020-10-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 3, 2020)

Attorneys

Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi
Kyle Jason WhiteWhite, Davis, & White Law Firm, PA, Petitioner
Kyle Jason WhiteWhite, Davis, & White Law Firm, PA, Petitioner
South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al.
Kenneth P. WoodingtonDavidson, Wren & DeMasters, P.A., Respondent
Kenneth P. WoodingtonDavidson, Wren & DeMasters, P.A., Respondent