Brown v. Plata
Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. ___ (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case holding that a court-mandated population limit was necessary to remedy a violation of prisoners’ Eighth Amendment constitutional rights. Justice Kennedy filed the majority opinion of the 5 to 4 decision, affirming a decision by a three judge panel of the United States District Court for the Eastern and Northern Districts of California which had ordered California to reduce its prison population to 137.5% of design capacity within two years.
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Brown v. Plata
Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. ___ (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case holding that a court-mandated population limit was necessary to remedy a violation of prisoners’ Eighth Amendment constitutional rights. Justice Kennedy filed the majority opinion of the 5 to 4 decision, affirming a decision by a three judge panel of the United States District Court for the Eastern and Northern Districts of California which had ordered California to reduce its prison population to 137.5% of design capacity within two years.
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Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. ___ ( ...... ined by Chief Justice Roberts.
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Application for stay denied, 570 U.S. ____ , 134 S. Ct. 1 (U.S. 2013).
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Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. ___ ( ...... ign capacity within two years.
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Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Governor ...... ants v. Marciano Plata, et al.
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