private-prisons

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-7995 John C. Stuart v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-12 Denied IFP due-process emancipation graft judicial-bias judicial-impartiality private-prisons subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Does the state court have subject-matter jurisdiction in a trial wherein the judge shall receive extrajudicially paid pecuniary gain for a conviction …
20-7193 John C. Stuart v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-impartiality due-process judicial-bias pecuniary-conflict pecuniary-interest private-prison private-prisons state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Do this Court's holding in Tumey v. Ohio and Ward v. Village of Monroeville apply to cases wherein additional money is paid to the judge for convictio…
19-8355 Lancey Darnell Ray v. Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-04-24 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection federal-grants federal-statute parole parole-eligibility prisoners-rights private-prisons sentencing-rules state-corrections truth-in-sentencing Whether 34 U.S.C.A. § 12104's (Formerly cited as 42 U.S.C.A. § 13704) 85% requirement disturb States' settled parole statutes regarding eligibility fo…
18-8255 David E. Ponder v. Avalon Correctional Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-court-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-protections due-process foia-exemption freedom-of-information inmate-rights prison prison-transparency private-prisons standing takings Private for-profit prisons-are-allowed-to-deny-FOIA-and-State-Open-Records laws