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Bones v. Warden, NYC Correctional Institution for Men

New York state trial court

Filed Date: 1973

In 1973, an inmate at the New York City Correctional Institution for Men filed a lawsuit under Article 78 against the warden of the prison in the New York Supreme Court. The plaintiff alleged that he suffered a disciplinary deprivation of good time in violation of his due process rights. On January 8, 1974, the Court (Judge Ernst H. Rosenberger) granted declaratory and injunctive relief to the plaintiff, holding that he had not been afforded the necessary due process when the defendants faile…
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In re Lugo

04-135399 | California state trial court

Filed Date: May 26, 2004

On May 26, 2004, a prisoner at San Quentin State Prison in California filed this habeas corpus petition under state law in the Marin County Superior Court. The petitioner claimed that after a denial of parole on February 25, 2003, the California Board of Parole Hearings (BPH) failed to conduct a subsequent parole hearing within a year, thereby violating his due process rights and rights under Cal. Penal Code § 3041.5(b)(2). After reviewing the petition, Superior Court Judge Verna Adams issued a…
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Immel v. Owens

05CV216 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2005

Closed Date: Aug. 30, 2007

Two state prisoners in Colorado filed a pro se civil complaint on September 12, 2005 in the 13th District Court, Logan County, Colorado. They alleged that the defendants (the state's governor and officials of the parole board and corrections department) improperly applied statutory parole guidelines and thereby violated the rights of the plaintiffs and a class of similarly-situated others who, between July 1, 1985, and July 1, 1993, had committed the crimes for which they were incarcerated. T…
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L.H. v. Schwarzennegger

2:06-cv-02042 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2006

Closed Date: 2014

On September 13, 2006, several Department of Juvenile Justice parolees filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. (They amended the complaint a week later.) The plaintiffs sued California and the persons and entities administering California's juvenile parole system under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In their complaint, they claimed that California's policies and practices regarding the revocation of juvenile parole violated the their constitutional rights to due…
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Hawker v. Consovoy

1:00-cv-02106 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 2, 2000

Closed Date: 2001

On May 2, 2000, three inmates at the Riverfront State Prison in New Jersey filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey against the New Jersey State Parole Board. The complaint alleged that the Parole Board knowingly and consistently failed to meet the deadlines for the preparation of pre-parole reports and the conduction of parole hearings, as required by the New Jersey Parole Act of 1979 ("Act"), N.J.S.A. 30:4-12…
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Graziano v. Pataki

7:06-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

On January 23, 2006, prisoners in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services and serving sentences for second degree murder filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Governor Pataki and the New York State Division of Parole. Plaintiffs alleged that Governor Pataki instigated an unofficial policy of denying parole release to prisoners convicted of A-1 violent felony offe…
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Foster-Bey v. Sampson

2:05-cv-71318 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 5, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

On April 5, 2005, Michigan inmates, represented by attorneys and students with the University of Michigan Clinical Law Program, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, alleging that changes to the Michigan parole law and policies made in 1992 ("life means life") precluded any meaningful review of their life sentences, thereby effectively converting them into mandatory life sentences in violation of the Ex Post Facto and the Due Process Clauses of t…
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Morrissey v. Brewer

4:69-20468 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 1969

Closed Date: June 29, 1972

This is an older case about whether due process rights are violated when a parole board revokes someone's parole without a hearing. Two petitions for habeas corpus were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa: Booher v. Lee County, filed on March 11, 1970 (docket number 70-20478); and Morrissey v. Brewer, filed on Sept. 12, 1969 (docket number 69-20468).The petitioners, Morrissey and Booher, were individually convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern Distr…
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Houle v. Sampson

2:09-cv-10504 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2009

Closed Date: 2010

On February 10, 2009, two parolees filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Michigan Parole Board in the United States Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Detroit Division. The plaintiffs, represented by several public interest organizations, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the Parole Board's conditions of parole were unconstitutional. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the Special Conditions of the parole board in sex of…
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M.H. v. Monreal

1:12-cv-08523 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2012

Closed Date: Nov. 14, 2019

On October 23, 2012, a teenager detained awaiting a parole revocation hearing filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and Uptown People's Law Center, asked the court for a declaratory judgment that the policies of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board regarding parole revocation hearings were unconstitutional. He also requested that the Court enjoin the defendant from…