prison-rights
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A621 | Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida | Florida | 2024-12-23 | Presumed Complete | execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise prison-rights religious-accommodation spiritual-advisor | Whether a state prison's denial of religious accommodation for an inmate's spiritual advisor during execution violates the First Amendment's Free Exer… | |
| 21-6883 | Walter Delaney Booker, Jr. v. M. E. Engelke, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-rights compelling-interest constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-exercise-clause prison prison-rights religious-exercise religious-freedom standing | Whether RLUIPA requires courts to evaluate claims under the 'compelling interest' test or the 'least restrictive means' test |
| 21-6055 | Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | IFP | accommodation ada ada-accommodation civil-rights cognitive-disability due-process execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia prison-rights standing statutory-deadline | What is the threshold of evidence required for a cognitively disabled petitioner to establish that his need for accommodation was obvious under the AD… |
| 19-8127 | Casey Rafael Tyler v. Erik A. Hooks, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights disciplinary-hearings documentary-evidence due-process evidence hearing-procedures prison-rights prisoners-rights video-surveillance wolff-v-mcdonnell | Did the Wolff right to present documentary evidence encompass the right to present video evidence? |