Sentences with phrase «brought by prisoners»

It was, I said, «an almost Posnerian plea for judges to be attentive to facts and, in particular, to the information that various experts can provide about prisons, when they adjudicate constitutional claims brought by prisoners, as well as for lawyers to provide judges with such information.»
Ms. Kerr's argument, in a nutshell, is an almost Posnerian plea for judges to be attentive to facts and, in particular, to the information that various experts can provide about prisons, when they adjudicate constitutional claims brought by prisoners, as well as for lawyers to provide judges with such information.
This Order applies to the following GLO [Group Litigation Order] issues in proceedings brought by prisoners or former prisoners against the Home Office arising out of a disturbance at Lincoln Prison on 23rd and 24th October 2002:
The reality is that amongst many middle class Georgians, they will be very judgmental on cases that either lack a damages punch (the State Court case only had 2.5 months of medical care) or lack a strong liability claim (the Federal case was brought by prisoners in a van that rear ended a tractor trailer) Both of these are tough cases for either damages problems or liability problems.
Prison healthcare — we act for primary care organisations defending claims brought by prisoners, often where there are allegations of a failure to provide basic medical care.
The agreement ends a 2012 lawsuit, Peoples v. Fischer, brought by prisoners who endured hundreds of days in solitary.

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Isa 42:5 Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it, Isa 42:6 «I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, Isa 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.
The attention and the funds of the philanthropically minded have been diverted from agencies for the spread of Christianity to the relief of the suffering brought by wars and to the spiritual and physical care of the fighting men and of prisoners.
The case was brought by a non-smoking prisoner who suffers from various health problems, including angina.
Day was also one of several legislators who took pains to point out recent incidents brought to light in a press conference with County Sheriff Louis Falco where county prisoners threatened correctional officers by claiming that they knew their home addresses.
A discussion forum for the June 13th Reading in Prison day, an effort led by Prison Reading Groups in partnership with the University of Roehampton and the Prisoners» Education Trust, brought together interested parties and stakeholders to determine what benefits there are to making reading material available to incarcerated people.
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He traveled to Hanoi, then the capital of North Vietnam, and now capital of unified Vietnam, in 1965 and 1967, bringing back three U.S. prisoners of war the second time, who had been released to him by the Viet Cong.
Needing to recover a prisoner being transported by jeep and with a tank bringing up the rear for support, we raced ahead of the mini-convoy on our trusty steed, D - Horse, to see if our mad plan would work.
Act Two, entitled Prisoners of Love, brings together work by André Acquart, Emory Douglas, Latifa Echakhch, Mona Hatoum, Glenn Ligon, Abdul Hay Mosallam, The Otolith Group, Lili Reynaud - Dewar, Carole Roussopoulos, Gil J Wolman and Akram Zaatari.
Mr Creighton briefly outlined the approach taken in the successful judicial review of that decision brought by leading prison law bodies, the Howard League for Penal Reform and The Prisoners» Advice Service.
Part V analyzes the prospects of using litigation to reform prisoner isolation in Canada by drawing lessons from the US experience, where litigation has brought hidden practices to the public's attention and awoken moral sensibilities, sowing the seeds for negotiated reform with elected officials and correctional administrators.
Wise felt that such a concept was already present in habeas corpus case law which permits courts to issue writs requiring that a person be brought before a judge by his or her captor in order to rule on that prisoners detainment.
She assumed I chose the name as a «brilliant analogy of lawyers to Plato's prisoners trapped by their old disorganized ways and brought out to the beautiful light of technology.»
The Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prisoners» Advice Service (PAS) charities have both been given permission by senior judges to put forward a new case that questions the legality of the budgetary restrictions that were brought in by the Ministry of Justice.
Rowe is the epitome of such «ordinary» cases, because it was brought not by a prisoners - rights advocate, of the sort to whom prof. Kerr's article is first and foremost addressed, but by a self - represented prisoner who, as Judge Posner notes, is no position to take prof. Kerr's and Judge Posner's advice, sound though it is in theory.
The Cabinet Office revealed this week that the government may act to implement the ruling, Hirst v UK (No. 2)(App no 74025 / 01), which was made in a case brought by former prisoner John Hirst.
And it was required, in cases where the grand jury in attendance upon any of these courts should terminate its session without proceeding by indictment or otherwise against any prisoner named in the list, that the judge of the court should forthwith make an order that such prisoner, desiring a discharge, should be brought before him or the court to be discharged, on entering into recognizance, if required, to keep the peace and for good behavior, or to appear, as the court might direct, to be further dealt with according to law.
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