Eighth Amendment
Manning v. Caldwell
Fourth Circuit Declines to Apply Justice White’s Concurrence in Powell v. Texas as Binding Precedent.
Fourth Circuit Declines to Apply Justice White’s Concurrence in Powell v. Texas as Binding Precedent.
Third Circuit Holds Parents of Mentally Ill Young Man Held in Solitary Confinement Stated Claims of Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
D.C. Circuit Holds It Cruel and Unusual to Impose Mandatory Thirty-Year Sentence on Military Contractors for Gun Charge.
Colorado Supreme Court Holds that Aggregate Term-of-Years Sentences Can Never Implicate Eighth Amendment Restrictions on Juvenile Life Without Parole.
Ninth Circuit Deems Unconstitutional Routine Shackling in Pretrial Proceedings.