Advocate.comGeorgia law banning gender-affirming care for trans inmates struck down
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-prison-gender-affirming-care
LilMikeSF#AppealsCourt panel let's #DJT off the hook for financial penalty of hundreds of millions in fines. Panel agrees #TrumpOrg committed fraud, but that cannot be fined "excessive" $464 million. for it.
University of #Michigan #LawSchool Professor Barbara McQuade said "the court found that the fine was excessive and has eliminated that under the #EighthAmendment. What it said, most importantly, is that there was #fraud. That the #verdict was absolutely sound. That the evidence showed that the Trump Organization engaged in massive fraud..."
"Pathetic really. At this point, a slap on the wrist isn't going to stop Trump's fraud. Is this an admission by the NY appeals court that the no law anywhere can hold him accountable?" asked tech lawyer Benjamin Kabak on MSNBC.
'Anything But' a total victory for Trump in NY fraud conviction: legal expert
John ColagioiaIn death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value https://theconversation.com/in-death-penalty-cases-the-quest-for-justice-is-not-americas-highest-value-256042
States such as Louisiana have enacted factual innocence statutes because there is no nationwide, constitutional bar to executing people who are factually innocent.
#USGOV uses term #Horrific to describe #incarceration in great state of #Georgia...
#DOJ released probe on conditions of #prisons in the state of #GA, which it said were "#inhumane" and in violation of the #USConstitution #EighthAmendment which prohibits #CruelAndUnusualPunishment
US GOVT sez #GeorgiaPrisons ''deliberately indifferent'' to unchecked deadly #violence, widespread #druguse, #extortion and #SexualAbuse at state lockups...
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4909808-georgia-prisons-inhumane-conditions/
Oliveshttps://reason.com/2024/07/30/texas-prisoners-are-being-cooked-alive-by-high-temperatures-investigation-says/
"Inmates in #Texas state prisons are being "cooked alive" by scorching temperatures in facilities without air conditioning, a new investigation claims. Documents obtained by The Texas Newsroom, a public radio collaboration of multiple Texas stations, showed that even as inmates died with body temperatures nearing 107 degrees, officials have continued to blame their deaths on causes other than extreme heat."
#HumanRights #EighthAmendment
"Inmates in #Texas state prisons are being "cooked alive" by scorching temperatures in facilities without air conditioning, a new investigation claims. Documents obtained by The Texas Newsroom, a public radio collaboration of multiple Texas stations, showed that even as inmates died with body temperatures nearing 107 degrees, officials have continued to blame their deaths on causes other than extreme heat."
#HumanRights #EighthAmendment
NonilexWriting for the majority, Justice Neil #Gorsuch said the problem of #homelessness is complex, but the #EighthAmendment “does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people & in their place dictate this Nation’s homelessness policy.”
The decision returns the case to the lower courts, & it is not clear whether Grants Pass, OR will be able to enforce its #laws against #homeless individuals.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
In a 6-3 ruling, the court said #homelessness is not a status protected by the #EighthAmendment’s prohibition on #CruelAndUnusual punishment, even when a community offers #NoAccess to indoor #shelter for #HomelessPeople.
So much for love thy neighbor
#law #SCOTUS #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #SupremeCourt #AntiCamping #laws #PublicSpace #homeless
Caroline Mala CorbinCity of Grant's Pass v. Johnson, Supreme Court reverses 9th Circuit, holding that laws re camping on public property used to punish homeless are not cruel and unusual punishment
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #EighthAmendment #homeless #law #lawFedi #LawProf
https://reason.com/2024/04/19/oklahoma-prisoners-say-they-were-locked-in-filthy-tiny-shower-stalls-for-days/
"According to the suit, staff at the Great Plains Correctional Center locked several inmates in small shower stalls for extended periods, without access to basic amenities like adequate food and water. Most were placed in 3 square foot shower cells, though at least one was confined in an even smaller space. Confinement periods listed in the suit ranged from 24 hours to four days.
The suit describes harrowing conditions for inmates held in the shower stalls. They allege they were placed in stalls filled with human feces and deprived of bathroom breaks. Additionally, several inmates say the only water they had access to was scalding hot shower water."
#HumanRights #EighthAmendment
https://reason.com/2024/04/10/a-florida-judge-says-165000-in-fines-for-3-minor-code-violations-is-not-excessive/
"A Florida judge yesterday ruled against a Lantana homeowner who faces more than $165,000 in fines for three minor code violations that harmed no one. Sandy Martinez, who is represented by the Institute for Justice (I.J.), argued that the financially crippling demand, which stems from driveway cracks, a storm-damaged fence, and cars that were parked partially on her own lawn, violates the Florida Constitution's ban on excessive fines and its guarantee of due process."
"But Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Luis Delgado granted the city's motion for summary judgment, concluding that the fines were not "grossly disproportionate."
Martinez hopes to persuade Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal that Delgado is wrong about that."
#HumanRights #EighthAmendment
