prison-regulations

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Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
24-6247	Christopher Stephen Beckman v. Lloyd Arnold, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction	Seventh Circuit	2025-01-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment mail-restrictions prison-regulations publication-censorship	Whether the Indiana Department of Corrections' confiscation of publications violates an inmate's First Amendment rights to receive printed materials w…
22-7780	John Thomas Entler v. Eric Jackson, et al.	Washington	2023-06-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	burden-of-proof prison-regulations religiosity religious-accommodation religious-exercise rluipa sincerely-held-beliefs sincerity strict-scrutiny substantial-burden	Whether prison officials can require prisoners to show centrality in religious exercise, and whether prison officials can regulate prisoners' sincerit…
22-7614	Lisa A. Biron v. Jody Upton, Warden, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-23	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	christian-faith constitutional-rights federal-inmate first-amendment legitimate-penological-interests prison-regulations qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden	Does the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) apply to protect a federal inmate's religious liberties when she has adequately pleaded a substantia…
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
22-6322	Jaame Amun Re El v. FNU Melanson, et al.	First Circuit	2022-12-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech inmate-rights prison-regulations special-mail standing statutory-law	Is the constitution the law of the land?
21-8194	Richard Reynolds, et al. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction	Second Circuit	2022-06-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-agency administrative-law constitutional-review corrections due-process first-amendment free-speech prison-regulations sexually-explicit-materials turner-standard turner-v-safley	Whether a state administrative agency can deny access to publications protected by the First Amendment based on incarceration status
21-6296	James Paul Desper v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2021-11-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association parental-rights prison-regulations prison-visitation	Whether a prison's indefinite ban on visitation between a minor child and her parent without any particularized justification violates the right of fa…
19-7899	Paul Nigl v. Jon Litscher, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2020-03-06	Denied	IFP	civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment marriage marriage-rights prison-administration prison-regulations prisoner-rights summary-judgment turner-v-safley	Whether prison officials may prohibit a former prison employee and a prisoner from marrying
19-6158	William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2019-10-03	Dismissed	Response WaivedIFP	1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion	Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in ruling that the statement that Judaism is a 'doctrine of hate' is equivalent to 'violence and murder' such that l…
18-9498	Mark Alan Lane v. Cynthia Swain, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2019-05-31	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights disciplinary-code due-process first-amendment free-speech inmate-communication ninth-circuit prison-regulation prison-regulations procunier-test procunier-v-martinez standing	Is Section 203's prohibition against threatening another with any offense a close fit to a legitimate penological interest?
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…
18-7413	Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-01-15	Denied	IFP	alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness	Does the Fell Faith and Credit Clause apply to the Bradshaw v. Ash case involving disciplinary actions against a prisoner?
18-6037	Raul S. Zavala v. Hector Rios, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2018-09-19	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions damages-claim due-process federal-courts mail-restrictions prison prison-mail prison-officials prison-regulations standing	WHETHER PLAINTIFF IS ENTITLED TO NOTICE WHEN UNOPENED' MAIL HAS BEEN REJECTED AND RETURNED TO THE SENDER BECAUSE IT FAILED TO COMPLY WITH PRISON REGUL…
18-5573	Tajuan Williams v. Sherman Campbell, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2018-08-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law contraband due-process evidence-gathering fourth-amendment prison prison-regulations prisoner-rights regulations	Should the Court review the case, de novo, to address the importance to the public of the issue in keeping contraband items out of prisons and out of …
18-43	Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2018-07-09	Denied	Response Waived	as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott	Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications?