Monahan v. Winn

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the “PLRA exhaustion requirement has no ‘futility’ exception”
• “[Mjaintaining a full menu of appropriate punishment options is in the public interest.”
• finding PLRA exhaustion requirement did not apply to habeas action challenging Bureau of Prisons rule impacting execution of criminal sentences and declining to otherwise require exhaustion where it would be futile
• finding PLRA exhaustion requirement did not apply to habeas action challenging Bureau of Prisons rule impacting execution of criminal sentences and declining to otherwise require exhaustion where it would be futile
• “No other provision in the United States Code (and certainly nothing in the Sentencing Guidelines) purports to curb that discretion.”
• “[T]he DOJ’s clampdown on BOP discretion as to place of imprisonment increases punishment for prisoners.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).