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.

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Mann v. Ohio DRC

In collaboration with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison LLP and the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School, Rights Behind Bars filed an amicus brief on behalf of a group of medical organizations and doctors who specialized in correctional or kidney health.

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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.

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