Rights Behind Bars

Cases

Rights Behind Bars has won more than a hundred cases in the Federal Circuit Courts. Our briefs are linked on their case pages. If they are helpful to you as an attorney or pro se litigator, please feel welcome to use them.

Phoebe Mesard 9/13/20 Phoebe Mesard 9/13/20

Taylor v. Riojas

Rights Behind Bars filed a petition for rehearing en banc to the Fifth Circuit on behalf of Trent Taylor. The court granted Texas state prison officials qualified immunity notwithstanding Mr. Taylor's claim that forcing him to live naked in prison cells covered in human sewage for nearly a week was an unconstitutional condition of confinement. The Supreme Court summarily reversed the Fifth Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to prison officials.

Phoebe Mesard 5/28/19 Phoebe Mesard 5/28/19

United States v. Westine

Rights Behind Bars represented John Westine Jr. in an appeal of a district court's denial of his motion for compassionate release.