Sentences with phrase «federal inmates appealed»

Not exact matches

Yesterday, the Law Memo blog posted a link to a 9th Circuit decision, Pollard v. GEO Group, holding — contrary to what other courts of appeals have ruled — that federal prison inmates may recover damages under the Bivens doctrine from employees of private corporations running those prisons pursuant to contracts with the Bureau of Prisons.

All three appeals are of decisions in criminal cases, including an appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision on the use of prison assessment tools on aboriginal inappeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision on the use of prison assessment tools on aboriginal inAppeal decision on the use of prison assessment tools on aboriginal inmates.

Jennifer's pro bono work has included: briefing and arguing a federal inmate's appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; drafting name and gender change requests for transgender individuals in need; and submitting U-Visa applications and civil protection orders for indigent survivors of violence.

Counsel for Jewish inmate in federal prison who asserted First Amendment violation for the wrongful denial of Kosher food; argued appeal to the Fifth Circuit, which reversed dismissal of prisoner's case.

D.C. Circuit allows federal death row inmate to intervene in lawsuit challenging the federal government's method of carrying out lethal injections and its failure to disclose its execution procedures: You can access today's ruling of a unanimous three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

Plaintiff - Appellant Richard Lee Pollard, a federal inmate, appeals the district court's order dismissing his Eighth Amendment claims against employees of a private corporation operating a federal prison under contract with the Bureau of Prisons.