John Wesley Stewart v. Randy Bailey Larry Huffman Cindy S. Staton Other John Does Jerry P. Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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

• “When a state does not comply with a procedure specified in one of its own statutes or rules, it has violated that statute or rule, and nothing more.”
• “[T]he regulation must create substantive predicates to guide the decisionmaker’s discretion, such as specific directives to the decisionmaker that if the regulations’ substantive predicates are present, a particular outcome must follow.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).