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First Circuit· 7/31/2009

Simmons v. Galvin

Citations

  • 575 F.3d 24
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 17012
  • 2009 WL 2343166

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding a provision nonpunitive in part because it’s “not in the Commonwealth’s criminal code, but rather its civil constitutional and statutory voter qualification provisions”
  • “{FJelon disenfranchisement has historically not been regarded as punitive in the United States, as the Supreme Court indicated in Trop v. Dulles.”
  • “The state has . . . a strong interest in how its correctional systems are maintained and run” (citing Preiser v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 475, 491-92 (1973))

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Judges: Lynch, Torruella, Boudin

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Cites

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