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Block Vs. Rutherford

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jul 03, 1984

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  1. Bell Vs. Wolfish US Supreme Court · May 14, 1979
  2. Mathews Vs. Eldridge US Supreme Court · Feb 24, 1976
  3. Phillips Vs. Commissioner US Supreme Court · May 25, 1931
  4. North American Cold Storage Co. Vs. Chicago US Supreme Court · Dec 07, 1908
  5. Hudson Vs. Palmer US Supreme Court · Jul 03, 1984
  6. Eisenstadt Vs. Baird US Supreme Court · Mar 22, 1972
  7. Kennedy Vs. Mendoza-martinez US Supreme Court · Feb 18, 1963
  8. Pell Vs. Procunier US Supreme Court · Jun 24, 1974
  9. Roe Vs. Wade US Supreme Court · Jan 22, 1973
  10. U.S. 576 (1984) U.S. Supreme Court Block v. Rutherford
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  11. U.S. 576 (1984) Block v. Rutherford
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  12. practice or policy constitutes punishment or is reasonably related to a legitimate governmental objective. Bell v. Wolfish
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  13. of the cell occupants is also a reasonable response by the jail officials to legitimate security concerns. Bell v. Wolfish
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  14. The District Court sustained both of these challenges. Rutherford v. Pitchess
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  15. Ninth Circuit remanded the case to the District Court for consideration in light of our intervening decision in Bell v. Wolfish
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  16. nothing in Bell v. Wolfish
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  17. Rutherford v. Page
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  18. security measures that are imperative to proper administration of a detention facility. Four Terms ago, in Bell v. Wolfish
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  19. Ibid. (quoting Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez
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  20. Id. at 540-541, n. 23 (quoting Pell v. Procunier
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  21. least five Circuits have held that pretrial detainees are not constitutionally entitled to contact visits. See Jordan v. Wolke
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  22. Ramos v. Lamm
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  23. Inmates of Allegheny County Jail v. Pierce
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  24. Feeley v. Sampson
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  25. Ozendine v. Williams
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  26. have held that the Constitution does require contact visits for detainees, at least in certain contexts. See Marcera v. Chinlund
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  27. F.2d 1231 (CA2), vacated and remanded sub nom. Lombard v. Marcera
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  28. Jones v. Diamond
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  29. F.2d 1364 (CA5), cert. granted sub nom. Ledbetter v. Jones
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  30. U.S. 959, cert. dism'd, 453 U.S. 950 (1981). Cf. West v. Infante
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  31. Campbell v. McGruder
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  32. of Wolfish a Second Circuit decision holding that the denial of contact visits was unconstitutional. Marcera v. Chinlund
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  33. F.2d 1231, vacated and remanded sub nom. Lombard v. Marcera
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  34. U.S. 915 (1979). The issue was presented for review in Jones v. Diamond
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  35. Id. at 441 U. S. 540 . See also Pell v. Procunier
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  36. deference to administrative judgment that have no place in the present litigation. As the Court made clear in Bell v. Wolfish
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  37. Ante at 468 U. S. 585 , quoting Bell v. Wolfish
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  38. judgment. Instead, I think it sufficient to rest on the substantive due process standard announced in Bell v. Wolfish
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  39. the rhetoric of judicial deference for meaningful scrutiny of constitutional claims in the prison setting. See Rhodes v. Chapman
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  40. particular measures advance prison security, however, does not make them ipso facto constitutional. Cf. Bell v. Wolfish
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  41. approach. As we recognized in Bell v. Wolfish
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  42. challenging their exclusion from cell searches on substantive due process grounds, and hence that the decision in Bell v. Wolfish
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  43. in order to minimize erroneous deprivations. Because the Court did not address a procedural due process claim in Bell v. Wolfish
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  44. something more must be said to support the judgment in this case. Page 468 U. S. 595 Under Mathews v. Eldridge
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  45. Here, I do not dispute that the private interests at stake in cell searches are potentially significant. See Hudson v. Palmer
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  46. a pretrial detainee's presence never would contribute to the avoidance of erroneous deprivations. We noted in Bell v. Wolfish
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  47. U.S. at 441 U. S. 555 , is any less likely to result from the presence of detainees here than it was in Bell v. Wolfish
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  48. during the course of a search may not prevent the seizure of contraband during the search itself, cf. Calero-Toledo v. Pearson
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  49. exigencies have excused the requirement of predeprivation hearings in other contexts, see, e.g., Commissioner v. Shapiro
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  50. a deaf ear to inmates' claims that the conditions of their confinement violate the Federal Constitution. See Rhodes v. Chapman
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