U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Thomas Porter v. Harold Clarke
This writing
- Type
- Dissent
- Filed
- May 3, 2019
- Case
- Thomas Porter v. Harold Clarke
- Case status
- Decided
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NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, dissenting: In this case, Virginia death-row inmates are challenging conditions of confinement that have not existed for over three years - raising a concern that this case could now be only advisory. Nonetheless, the district court sustained their challenge and ruled in February 2018 that pre-2015 death-row conditions violated the Eighth Amendment. Further, it entered an injunction prohibiting a r…
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Other writings in this case
| Type | Author | Filed |
|---|---|---|
| Opinion of the Court | Not attributed | May 3, 2019 |
| Opinion | Not attributed | May 3, 2019 |