In this decision, a panel from the Seventh Circuit held that requiring a state prisoner to be inoculated against hepatitis is not cruel and unusual punishment, but exposing the prisoner to cigarette smoke may be.
"[T]he Constitution is not violated by a prison's forcing a prisoner who is assigned to ...

Here the court upheld a mentally ill man's three-strikes sentence of 25 years to life Wednesday for shoplifting two bottles of liquor from a Southern California market, a sentence that a dissenting judge called 'barbarous. The ruling consists of a three-page majority opinion and a sixteen-page dissenting opinion.

U.S. v. O’Rourke, 470 F.Supp.2d 1049 (D.Ariz. Jan. 17, 2007) (Judge Campbell)
U.S. v. Knellinger, 471 F.Supp.2d 640 (E.D.Va. Jan. 25, 2007) (Judge Payne)

18 U.S.C. § 3509(m) - Generally

With great fanfare, on July 27, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act ...

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled, by an 8 to 1 vote, that the police did not act unconstitutionally when they try to stop a suspect fleeing at high speed by ramming the suspect's car from the rear, forcing it to crash, and rendering the driver, Victor Harris, a ...

U.S. v. O’Rourke, 470 F.Supp.2d 1049 (D.Ariz. Jan. 17, 2007) (Judge Campbell)
U.S. v. Knellinger, 471 F.Supp.2d 640 (E.D.Va. Jan. 25, 2007) (Judge Payne)

18 U.S.C. § 3509(m) - Generally

With great fanfare, on July 27, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act ...