35 F. Supp. 2d 1131 - Lambert v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Meachum v. Fano · Olim v. Wakinekona · United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder · Richardson v. McKnight
Most-quoted passages
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“As a general matter, a state prisoner has no federal constitutional right to serve his sentence in any particular place of confinement and has no federal constitutional basis upon which to object to a simple administrative transfer from one facility to another, even if the transferee facility is located in another state. Simply put, federal constitutional guarantees are not implicated by such transfers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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