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Hope v. Pelzer, 536 U.S. 730 (2002), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the defense of qualified immunity, under which government actors may not be sued for actions they take in connection with their offices, did not apply to a lawsuit challenging the Alabama Department of Corrections's use of the "hitching post", a punishment whereby inmates were immobilized ...
In Hope v. Pelzer (2002), the Supreme Court held the correctional officers who tied inmates to a hitching post as a form of punishment were not entitled to qualified immunity because while there is no similar case law prior to Hope, the eighth amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment would be recognizable to any reasonable person.
Hope v. Pelzer: 534 U.S. 1073: 2001: Bagley v. Byrd: 534 U.S. 1301: 2001: External links. Supreme Court of the United States (www.supremecourt.gov) Full Text of ...
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Its structure and abuses were detailed in Hope v. Pelzer in which a former inmate sued the prison superintendent for personal injury suffered under the trusty system. [1] Other states using the trusty system, such as Arkansas, [13] Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas were also forced to abolish it under the Gates v. Collier rulings. [12]
The inmate, Caine Pelzer, 45, entered solitary confinement in 2009 for gang-related assaults, records show. He sued state when he was at SCI Albion. Settlement in Erie federal court ends inmate's ...
Hope women's basketball team was pushed to the limit by Illinois Wesleyan and passed the first big test of the season.
Laurence or Larry Hope may refer to: Laurence Hope (artist) (born 1927), Australian artist; Laurence Hope (poet) (1865–1904), English poet, pseudonym of Adela Florence Nicolson; Larry Hope (defensive back), gridiron football cornerback; Larry Hope, petitioner in the United States Supreme Court case Hope v. Pelzer