Legal Opinion
Dumschat v. Board of Pardons
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided August 18, 1978No. Civ. No. H-76-102PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
Background
BLUMENFELD, District Judge.
This is a class action by the plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and all other inmates of the State of Connecticut who are currently serving sentences of life imprisonment at the Connecticut Correctional Institutions at Somers and at Enfield and who have been, or who will be, denied pardons during their current terms of incarceration by the defendant Connecticut Board of Pardons. The plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment that the Due Process Clause of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution entitles them to a…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Morrissey v. BrewerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Meachum v. FanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Broncucia v. ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- United States ex rel. Johnson v. Chairman of New York State Board of ParoleCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Dumschat v. Board of PardonsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- David Dumschat, James Brown, Stanley Czaja and James Shelton, Intervening v. Board of Pardons, State of Connecticut, and Richard K. Lublin (Chairman), Alvin Dozeman, Paul J. McQuillan John P. Cotter, and Michael E. Dubissette, Members of the Board of Pardons, James Brown, Stanley Czaja and James Shelton v. Board of Pardons, State of Connecticut, and Paul J. McQuillan (Chairman), Alvin Dozeman, Michael E. Dubissette, John Speziale and Philip Tatoian, Members of the Board of PardonsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- Dumschat v. Board of PardonsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1979
- David Dumschat, James Brown, Stanley Czaja and James Shelton, Intervening v. Board of Pardons, State of Connecticut and Richard K. Lublin (Chairman), Alvin Dozeman, Paul J. Dubissette, Members of the Board of Pardons, Defendants- James Brown, Stanley Czaja and James Shelton v. Board of Pardons, State of Connecticut and Paul J. McQuillan (Chairman), Alvin Dozeman, Michael E. Dubissette, John Speziale, and Philip Tatoian, Members of the Board of PardonsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1979