Varnson v. Satran

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that if prison officials “were basing disciplinary decisions or parole-release determinations solely on the results of polygraph examinations, we would have serious reservations about the propriety of such a procedure”
• stating that if prison officials “were basing disciplinary decisions or parole-release determinations solely on the results of polygraph examinations, we would have serious reservations about the propriety of such a procedure”
• “A case is moot when a determination is sought which, when rendered, cannot have any practical legal effect upon a then-existing controversy.”
• “[W]e are not persuaded that due process under the Fourteenth Amendment or our State Constitution forbids, under all circumstances, a prison disciplinary committee or parole board from considering the results of a polygraph examination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).