penological-interests

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-6474 Cody Jay Riley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process hiv incarceration penological-interests scientific-evidence Does a state violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when incarcerating a person living with HIV outside of any penological interests?
22-594 Hjalmar Rodriguez, Jr. v. Edward H. Burnside, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) plaintiff-specific alternatives to a challenged p alternative-analysis constitutional-rights individual-accommodation obvious-alternatives penological-interests prison-regulation prison-regulations reasonable-relationship Turner-standard Whether a court may consider a narrow alternative that would apply only to the individual plaintiff under Turner v. Safley
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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying RLUIPA when it held that Georgia need not grant a religious accommodation offered in 39 other prison sy…
21-617 Christopher N. Payne v. Jahal Taslimi, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inmate-privacy medical-confidentiality penological-interests prejudice privacy qualified-immunity Do inmates have a constitutional right to privacy in their HIV status?
18-9662 Mark Alan Lane v. Josias Salazar, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons due-process first-amendment penological-interests prisoner-speech prisoners-rights procunier-v-martinez prohibited-act-code-203 true-threats void-for-vagueness Whether the Bureau of Prisons' broad construction of Prohibited Act Code 203 to punish statements in outgoing mail that are not true threats violates …
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 physical delousing and group strip searches of detainees entering the Cleveland Workhouse were constitutional under the Fourth Amendment, …
18-7762 Douglas Fauconier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legitimate-penological-interests penological-interests prison-regulation prison-regulations prisoner-rights What minimum showing of proof must prison officials establish on the record, to meet their initial burden of proof, in demonstrating that a prison reg…