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Rufo Vs. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail

Court : US Supreme Court

..... court did not make findings on these issues, and even if it had ruled that double celling at the new jail is constitutional and that the modification should be granted, we do not have before us the question whether the entire decree ..... circuit affirmed the order of the district court, finding that the commissioner had "major statutory responsibilities" over county jails and that he had failed to appeal the district court's decision holding that he was a proper party ..... the capacity of the new jail to be increased in any amount, provided that: "(a) single-cell occupancy is maintained under the design for the facility; "(b) under the standards and specifications of the architectural program, as modified, the relative proportion of cell space to support services will remain the same as it was in the architectural program; "(c) any modifications are incorporated into new architectural plans; "(d) defendants act without delay and take ..... ii in moving for modification of the decree, the sheriff relied on federal rule of civil procedure 60(b), which in relevant part provides: "on motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or a party's legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for ..... ; for the lawyers' committee for civil rights under law of the boston bar ..... relying on federal rule of civil procedure 60(b)-which provides, inter alia, that "upon such terms as are just, the court ..... affirmance were filed for the american civil liberties union et al. .....

Asir Koli Pitol Vs. State of Tamil Nadu

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : (1982)3SCC184

..... is one on which we do not think it necessary to direct the respondent to give us any information, but we think that it would be appropriate if the secretary of the district legal aid committee of tirunelveli is directed to visit the jail at palayamkotti and meet the petitioner to obtain from him the necessary information in regard to the various matters set out in item (1) and transmit such information to this court within three weeks from today. ..... in regard to this item it is necessary to give directions, because it has been stated in the affidavit of the jail superintendent that the petitioner and erulappan refused to take part in the identification parade and therefore, if there are any documents supporting this allegation, the respondent will disclose the same to mr ganesh ..... mr ganesh seeks copies of the official publication of the prisons act, 1894 and the prisoners act, 1900 as amended in their application to the state of ..... which we propose to give directions is item (4) which relates to the report of dr natrajan, prison medical officer and civil assistant surgeon which has been relied upon in the affidavit of the jail superintendent. ..... the necessary facilities to the secretary to visit the jail and to interview the petitioner for this purpose. 3 ..... but since copies of the prisons act, 1894 and the prisoners act, 1900 as also of the rules made under these two statutes and the prison manual may not be available to mr ganesh until the end of december, 1981, we extend the time granted .....

State of Bihar Vs. Kameshwar Prasad Verma

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1965SC575; 1962(0)BLJR798; 1965CriLJ494; [1963]2SCR183

..... an application by the respondent and in the recommendation of the appropriate medical authority bipat gope was released by the district magistrate on march 11, 1958 under the rules of the jail manual when his unexpired period of imprisonment was four months and three days. ..... that a note was made by judicial peshkar in which he stated : 'in this connection jail manual rule 548(1) and (2) and (3) and rule 549 may be seen. ..... it may be stated that the support of the relevant rules is set out in form 105 as follows :- '(i) rule 549 - there is no hope of his recovery either in or out of jail; i consider it desirable that he be allowed the comfort of dying at home. ..... 549 of the jail manual rules which are issued under the prisons act and that releases thereunder are ..... from the sentence sheet of release from the jail authority it appears that the prisoner has only 4 (four) months and 3 (three) days unexpired period of ..... the superintendent of district jail, patna, sent a letter to the district magistrate giving all these various ..... the civil surgeon of patna on march, 1, 1958, again enquired from dr. ..... by the state and it is not clear from the record as to how exactly or under what authority bipat gope was taken into custody and under what authority the jailor was detaining him in jail. ..... 's petition in the high court it appears that the application before district magistrate was taken up by the senior deputy collector, patna, who ordered bipat gope to be taken into custody and sent him to jail. .....

Union of India (U0i) and ors. Vs. Bhanudas Krishna Gawde and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1977SC1027; (1977)1SCC834; [1977]2SCR719

..... which has not been amended so as to include persons directed to be detained under any central or other act providing for detention; that the mere fact that a person is detained for purposes of administrative convenience in a jail does not mean that he is a civil prisoner or that the prisons act applies to him; and that the necessity of having provisions in the conditions of detention orders enabling, a detenu to consult private doctors in the presence of the official doctors ..... and 31 of the conservation of foreign exchange and prevention of smuggling activities (maharashtra conditions of detention) order, 1974 struck down and directions issued requiring the detaining authority to keep the detenu under detention as a 'civil prisoner' within the terms of and in all respects in conformity with the provisions of the prisons act, 1894 and further directing the detaining authority to permit the detenu to maintain himself by receiving such funds not exceeding the sum of rs. ..... authorities having the custody of the detenus and appropriate government, they cannot furnish reliable basis for judicial relief; that the aforesaid directions of the bombay high court equating detenus with 'civil prisoners' amenable to the prisons act, 1894, does not only amount to a substitution or re-enactment of section 5 of the ..... in these cases with other kinds of claims which may arise before the ordinary criminal or civil courts for wrongs done by officers acting maliciously in purported exercise of their powers .....

Rama Murthy Vs. State of Karnataka

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1997SC1739; 1997CriLJ1508; 1997(1)SCALE95; (1997)2SCC642

..... expected to treat the prisoners either in the normal cases or in special cases may be strictly instructed to treat the prisoners either as in-patients or otherwise as per the recommendation of the jail doctors and the superintendent of the jail without referring them back to the jail for treatment, particularly in case of mental patients, the nimhans authorities may be requested to treat them as in-patients till they become normal without referring them back to the ..... we conclude by saving that the cognizance of the letter written by rama murthy and the efforts made thereafter to find out what was really happening in the central jail of bangalore, resulting in submission of a voluminous report by the district judge, would not prove to be an exercise in futility, if what we have stated above is taken in all seriousness and our prisons become reform houses as ..... edition) the learned author has referred to may case on this subject and has pointed out the difference between 'civil' and 'penal' institutions from the perspective of the inmate. ..... the stringent provisions relating to bail as incorporated in that act, directed for release of those undertrial prisoners who were languishing in jail for a period exceeding half of the punishment provided in the act. ..... (1) fine: (2) civil commitment; and ..... city civil & sessions judge, bangalore mentioning the articles which may ..... city civil & sessions judge, bangalore who may review the same issue instructions as and ..... city civil & sessions judge, ..... civil .....

Precious Jewels and anr. Vs. Varun Gems

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... non-reportable in the supreme court of india civil appellate jurisdiction civil appeal no.7191 of2014(arising out of slp(c)no.9942 of 2013) precious jewels & ..... in our opinion, looking at the provisions of section 35 of the act, there is no prima facie case in favour of the plaintiff and therefore, the defendants could not have been restrained from doing their ..... being aggrieved by an interim order passed in a civil suit, the appellants- original defendants have approached this court by way of ..... as stated hereinabove, section 35 of the act permits anyone to do his business in his own name in a bona ..... been further submitted that the interim order whereby they have been restrained from doing their business is absolutely unjust and improper in view of provisions of section 35 of the act, which read as under :- 35. ..... nothing in this act shall entitle the proprietor or a registered user of a registered trade mark to interfere with any bona fide use by a person of his own name or that of his place of business, or of the name, or of the name of the place of ..... counsel had referred to some of the judgments and had mainly relied upon section 35 of the trade marks act, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as the act ). ..... has arisen under the provisions of the trade marks act, 1999. ..... merely concerned with an interlocutory order, without expressing any opinion, we are of the view that the interlocutory order passed by the court below is not just and proper in view of the provisions of section 35 of the act. .....

The Revenue Div. officer Fort Kochi andors Vs. Jalaja Dileep and Anr

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... been changed or transformed into reclaimed 'purayidam' dry land or any other state of condition and the change so effected or made by itself will not amount to 'a mistake' as referred to in section 18 of kerala land tax act and the tahsildar has absolutely no competence to decide upon the reclassification application in respect of the correction of btr and the impugned order is liable to be set aside as they are in contravention of provisions of klu order, 1967 ..... if the land is not included in the data bank or draft data bank prepared under the kerala cultivation of paddy land and wetland act 2008 and if it is not a "paddy land" or "wetland" as defined under act 28 of 2008, at the time of commencement of the act 12 of 2008 and the classification of land is noted as "nilam" in the revenue records, the provision of kerala land utilization order 1967 will be applicable to such land and the collector as defined in ..... respondents with civil appeal no.2750 of2015(arising out of slp (c) no.16851/2014) civil appeal no.2751 of2015(arising out of slp(c) no.26518/2014) civil appeal no.2752 of2015(arising out of slp (c) no.27218/2014) civil appeal no.2753 of2015(arising out of slp (c) no.32231/2014) and civil appeal no.2754 of2015(arising out of slp ..... the supreme court of india civil appellate jurisdiction civil appeal no.2749 of2015(arising out of slp (civil) no.3172/2014) the ..... for convenience, facts in civil appeal arising out of special leave petition (c) no.3172 of 2014 is referred to and .....

New Jersey Steam Navigation Co. Vs. Merchants' Bank

Court : US Supreme Court

..... inclined to the opinion, too, that, at the time the constitution of the united states was adopted, and the words "cases of admiralty and maritime" were introduced into it, and jurisdiction over them was subsequently given in civil proceedings, in the act of 1789, to the district courts, the law in england had in some degree become changed in its general principles in respect to jurisdiction in admiralty over contracts ..... ." looking now to the provisions of the third article of the constitution, and to those of the ninth section of the judiciary act, we recur to the inquiry what is this civil and maritime jurisdiction derived from the constitution and vested by the judiciary act in the district courts -- what the standard by which its scope and power, its "space and verge," are to be measured -- what the rules to be observed in the modes of its execution ..... this admiralty power so created by the constitution with reference to the tribunals by which and the modes in which it shall be executed is contained in the act to establish the judicial courts of the united states of 1789, section ninth, which constitutes the district courts of the united states courts of exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction and of certain seizures under the laws of imposts, concluding or qualifying this investment of power with .....

Reid Vs. Covert

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the superintendent has a statutory duty to "receive and keep in the washington asylum and jail all prisoners committed thereto for offenses against the united states. ..... appellee's sole contention is that appellant, the superintendent of the district of columbia jail, does not come within the requirement of 1252 that "the united states or any of its agencies, or any officer or employee thereof, as such officer or employee," be a party ..... on appeal, the united states court of military appeals set aside her conviction on grounds not material here, and she was transferred to the district of columbia jail to await a rehearing by court-martial at bolling air force base, washington, d.c. ..... for, whether the government should maintain its own jail in the district of columbia, or utilize the local facilities, is simply a matter of administrative convenience, and it would do violence to the purpose of congress to provide a "prompt review of the constitutionality of federal acts," fleming v. ..... on appeal, her conviction was set aide, and she was transferred to the district of columbia jail to await retrial by court-martial at an air base in washington, d.c. ..... as custodian of a federal prisoner, the superintendent of the jail is an officer or employee of the united states for purposes of 28 ..... holding an act of congress unconstitutional in any civil action, suit, or proceeding to which the united states or any of its agencies, or any officer or employee thereof, as such officer or employee, is a party .....

Hamdan Vs. Rumsfeld

Court : US Supreme Court

..... contention that we may only look to the label affixed to the charge to determine if the charging document alleges an offense triable by military commission is flatly inconsistent with its treatment of the civil war cases where it accepts as valid charges that did not appear in the heading or title of the charging document, or even the listed charge itself, but only in the ..... . 304 , 324 (1946) ( the phrase martial law as employed in [the hawaiian organic act], while intended to authorize the military to act vigorously for the maintenance of an orderly civil government and for the defense of the islands against actual or threatened rebellion or invasion, was not intended to authorize the ..... the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the high contracting parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions: (1) [t]he following acts are and shall remain prohibited : (d) [t]he passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples. id ..... acts that are and shall remain prohibited under common article 3 are the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by .....