James Carl Higgs v. William E. Carver and James M. Wolfe

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “I was turned down for a job because of my race” is all a plaintiff must say in order to state a claim for discrimination
• holding that a pretrial detainee can be placed in segregation without any process so long as the placement was for managerial reasons like safety and not for punitive reasons
• holding that it was unclear as to whether a lockdown was managerial when there was no evidence “on why [its length was] 34 days rather than 24 or 44”
• holding that it was unclear as to whether a lockdown was managerial when there was no evidence “on why [its length was] 34 days rather than 24 or 44”
• holding that a “pretrial detainee cannot be placed in segregation as a punishment for a disciplinary infraction without notice and an opportunity to be heard; due process requires no less”
• observing that if a plaintiff fails to identify the “suit or the act or acts claim to have constituted retaliation, the complaint would be insufficient”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).