Legal Opinion
Hertz v. State, Department of Corrections
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided January 8, 2010No. S-12842PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CARPENETI, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
A pro se prisoner moved for an injunction against the Alaska Department of Corrections ordering the department to pay “gate money” to all prisoners upon release as provided for in the 1990 Final Settlement Agreement (FSA) in the Cleary case, a class action by inmates regarding prison conditions. After passage of the Alaska Prison Litigation Reform Act (APLRA) in 1999, the department stopped issuing gate money. The inmate argues that the department is still bound by the FSA’s gate money provisions regardless of APLRA. The inmate also re quested…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Mathews v. EldridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Bishop v. WoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- James Benjamin v. Michael Jacobson, Commissioner of the Department of Correction of the City of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1999
- Inmates of Suffolk County Jail v. RouseCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1997
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Cook v. CookAlaska Supreme Court · 2011
- Junior Antenor, Keilan C. Ebli, and Loren J. Larson Jr. v. State of Alaska, Department of CorrectionsAlaska Supreme Court · 2020
- Brennan v. BrennanAlaska Supreme Court · 2018
- Barber v. State, Department of CorrectionsAlaska Supreme Court · 2017
- Perotti v. Corrections Corp. of AmericaAlaska Supreme Court · 2012
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