prison-policy

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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 Whether RFRA claims are exempt from the requirement not to define clearly established law at a high level of generality
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 Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in vacating the injunction requiring TDCJ to publish a clear policy on religious expression in the execution chamber
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…
21-7288 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 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 citize…
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 Whether the Eighth Circuit's approval of the prison's broad 'pornography' policy that prohibits inmates from accessing a wide range of written and pic…
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
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 Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error, contrary to 42 U.S.C. §2000cc et seq., when it abdicated the responsibility, conferred by Congress on…
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 Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's home and seizure of their personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's protection again…
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 the policy in 6.0.8 violate a federal prisoner's First Amendment right to reasonable access to the courts, where the policy allows only one hour …
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, …
18-5055 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 Whether the petitioner's free exercise rights were violated when prison officials refused to accommodate his religious dietary requirements