28 Cited authorities

Bell v. Wolfish
441 U.S. 520 (1979) Cited 17,477 times 10 Legal Analyses
Holding that a "prohibition against receipt of hardback books unless mailed directly from publishers, book clubs, or bookstores does not violate the First Amendment rights of MCC inmates"
Hudson v. Palmer
468 U.S. 517 (1984) Cited 12,441 times 13 Legal Analyses
Holding that prisoners have no reasonable expectation of privacy
Turner v. Safley
482 U.S. 78 (1987) Cited 10,199 times 11 Legal Analyses
Holding a regulation unconstitutional after noting that the prison "pointed to nothing in the record suggesting" the existence of a rational connection between the regulation and the asserted government interest and that "[c]ommon sense likewise suggests that there is no [such] connection"
Wolff v. McDonnell
418 U.S. 539 (1974) Cited 19,318 times 5 Legal Analyses
Holding that declaratory judgment as a predicate to a damages award would not be barred, but that a civil rights claim that would affect the duration of incarceration is foreclosed by Preiser
Hewitt v. Helms
459 U.S. 460 (1983) Cited 5,195 times 2 Legal Analyses
Holding that an inmate being considered for transfer to administrative segregation is entitled to "some notice of the charges against him and an opportunity to present his views to the prison official charged with deciding whether to transfer him to administrative segregation"
Washington v. Glucksberg
521 U.S. 702 (1997) Cited 2,648 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that there is no fundamental right to physician-assisted suicide
Youngberg v. Romeo
457 U.S. 307 (1982) Cited 3,137 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that severely retarded man's liberty interests in safety, freedom from bodily restraint and reasonable training survive involuntary commitment
Washington v. Harper
494 U.S. 210 (1990) Cited 2,109 times 14 Legal Analyses
Holding that inmates have liberty interest in avoiding unwanted administration of psychotropic drugs
Pell v. Procunier
417 U.S. 817 (1974) Cited 3,145 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that in the First Amendment context “a prison inmate retains those First Amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections system.”
Vitek v. Jones
445 U.S. 480 (1980) Cited 1,987 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that "the stigmatizing consequences of a transfer to a mental hospital for involuntary psychiatric treatment, coupled with the subjection of the prisoner to mandatory behavior modification as a treatment for mental illness, constitute the kind of deprivations of liberty that requires procedural protections"
Section 1651 - Writs
28 U.S.C. § 1651 Cited 11,073 times 60 Legal Analyses
Granting us the power to "issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of [our] . . . jurisdiction[] and agreeable to the usages and principles of law"

United States of America v. Novikov

28 Cited authorities

Holding that a "prohibition against receipt of hardback books unless mailed directly from publishers, book clubs, or bookstores does not violate the First Amendment rights of MCC inmates"

Holding that prisoners have no reasonable expectation of privacy

Holding a regulation unconstitutional after noting that the prison "pointed to nothing in the record suggesting" the existence of a rational connection between the regulation and the asserted government interest and that "[c]ommon sense likewise suggests that there is no [such] connection"

Holding that declaratory judgment as a predicate to a damages award would not be barred, but that a civil rights claim that would affect the duration of incarceration is foreclosed by Preiser

Holding that an inmate being considered for transfer to administrative segregation is entitled to "some notice of the charges against him and an opportunity to present his views to the prison official charged with deciding whether to transfer him to administrative segregation"

Holding that there is no fundamental right to physician-assisted suicide

Holding that severely retarded man's liberty interests in safety, freedom from bodily restraint and reasonable training survive involuntary commitment

Holding that inmates have liberty interest in avoiding unwanted administration of psychotropic drugs

Holding that in the First Amendment context “a prison inmate retains those First Amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections system.”

Granting us the power to "issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of [our] . . . jurisdiction[] and agreeable to the usages and principles of law"