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When and how will SCOTUS respond to the California prison litigation?

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this San Jose Mercury News article, "California officials Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lower court order that forces the state to quickly devise a plan to shed more than 40,000 inmates from its overcrowded prisons."  This filing came on the heels of the decision late last week by the special three-judge panel, noted here and available here, which refused to stay its order that California submit a prison reduction plan by September 18.  Here is more on California's SCOTUS filing: In a 46-page petition to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who handles emergency appeals from the Western states, California Attorney General Jerry Brown asked for an immediate stay of a three-judge panel's Aug. 4 order requiring the state to submit its prisoner release plan within 45 days...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 07, 2009 (boomark / email).