Legal Opinion
Brittain v. Beard
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 20, 2009No. 55 MAP 2008PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice BAER.
This is an interlocutory appeal by permission from an order of the Commonwealth Court, which denied cross-motions for summary relief filed by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (“the Department”) and Shannon Brittain (“Brittain”), an inmate of the Pennsylvania penal system. 1 Our inquiry is limited to determining whether the Commonwealth Court erred by denying the Department’s motion for summary relief on the basis that it failed to justify sufficiently its adoption of administrative directive 803-1 (“DC-ADM 803-1”), which prohibits inmates from possessing…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Turner v. SafleySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Procunier v. MartinezSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Overton v. BazzettaSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Beard v. BanksSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
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3Cited by29 opinions
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- Scarnati, J.,et al, Aplts. v. Wolf, T.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2017
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