U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Feb. 14, 2008
The Supreme Court Closes the Door on Federal Prisoners
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - A recent Supreme Court ruling will leave federal prisoners with no remedy for the negligent actions of prison officials.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
By Erwin Chemerinsky
This article appears on Page 6.
The Supreme Court has again made it harder for prisoners to sue, this time in a decision limiting the ability of federal prisoners to sue the United States. In Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2008 DJDAR 941 (U.S. Sct. Jan. 22, 2008), the court held that prisoners cannot sue the United States for their loss of property as a result of the negligence of pr...
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