U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal,
Constitutional Law,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Jun. 6, 2019
US Supreme Court undercuts California prisoner suits
While Nieves v. Bartlett involved an allegation of retaliatory arrest, the 9th Circuit’s approach in such cases is similar to that applied for prisoner retaliation claims, and the Supreme Court’s logic applies equally as well.
Tobias G. Snyder
Lewis & Llewellyn LLPEmail: tobias.snyder@doj.ca.gov
Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA
Tobias is an attorney in San Francisco and former deputy attorney general at the California Department of Justice.
Of the 28,839 federal civil actions filed in California last year, almost 20 percent were brought by prisoners, for the most part without counsel. Of these, nearly half were what's known as Section 1983 claims, challenging an inmate's conditions of confinement or alleging that prison officials violated his civil rights. 28 U.S.C. Section 1983. Such cases run the gamut from serious allegations of violent wrongdoing to frivolous claims about the commissary inventory. A ...
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