White Eagle v. Storie’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he Court is reluctant to enmesh itself in the day-to-day operations of a penal institution, especially in matters relating to discipline and internal administration. Instead, the Court is convinced this issue is sufficiently disposed of by the language of Circuit Judge Van Dusen ...: Due process undoubtedly requires certain minimal standards of specificity in prison regulations, but we reject the view that the degree of specificity required of such regulations is as strict in every instance as that required of ordinary criminal sanctions. This results from the fundamental difference between normal society and prison society. The maintenance of strict security and discipline, with its unfortunate but unavoidable circumscription of an inmates’s freedom to act, is essential to safe and efficient prison administration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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