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Indiana Supreme Court· 3/27/1998

Ratliff v. Cohn

Citations

  • 693 N.E.2d 530
  • 1998 Ind. LEXIS 30
  • 1998 WL 138876

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a juvenile may seek 6 declaratory and injunctive relief on the basis that her incarceration with adult offenders violated Indiana Constitution
  • holding that a juvenile may seek declaratory and injunctive relief on basis that her incarceration with adult offenders violated 4 Indiana Constitution
  • although Article IX, section 2 requires the legislature to provide institutions for juvenile offenders, it does not create an individual right for all such offenders to be housed only in such institutions
  • “To establish an Eighth Amendment violation, Ratliff ‘must demonstrate that prison officials are “deliberately indifferent” to [her] “serious” medical needs . . . .’”
  • “Generally, the constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishments . . . are proscriptive of atrocious or obsolete punishments and are aimed at the kind and form of the punishment, rather than the duration and amount.”

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Judges: Dickson, Shepard, Sullivan, Selby, Boehm

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