Legal Opinion

Yount v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 20, 2009No. 97 MAP 2006Published

1Opinion of the Court

966 A.2d 1115 (2009)

Jon E. YOUNT, Appellant

v.

PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS and James L. Grace, Superintendent of SCI-Huntingdon, in his Official Capacity, Appellees.

No. 97 MAP 2006.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued March 4, 2008.

Re-Submitted August 14, 2008.

Decided March 20, 2009.

Marybeth Walsh, Institutional Law Project, for Jon. E. Yount.

Debra S. Rand, Michael James McGovern, Suzanne Noelle Hueston, Harrisburg, for Dept. of Corrections.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TOOD, McCAFFERY and GREENSPAN, JJ.

OPINION

Justice EAKIN.

Appellant was convicted of first degree…

2Cases cited68 opinions

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  2. Sandin v. ConnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
  3. Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. DoyleSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  4. Lewis v. CaseySupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  5. Turner v. SafleySupreme Court of the United States · 1987

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