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· 3/20/2024

WILFREDO ERAZO - TURCIOS v. STATE OF FLORIDA

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  • holding that convicted inmate was not denied due process 8 when he was placed in a Disciplinary Housing Unit pending a disciplinary hearing
  • finding evidence of direct discrimination where plaintiff was told by employer's representative that she would not be hired because she was not \a black male\
  • holding Civil Rights Act of 1991 did not apply retroactively
  • “New regulations at variance with prior judicial 8 precedents are upheld unless ‘they exceeded the Secretary’s authority [or] are 9 arbitrary and capricious.’”
  • “Judicial interpretations ‘change the law’ from (losing) litigants’ perspective, but from the judicial perspective the process of interpretation aims at getting as close as one can to a meaning that predates the litigation.”
  • “Judicial interpretations ‘change the law’ from (losing) litigants’ perspective, but from the judicial perspective the process of interpretation aims at getting as close as one can to a meaning that predates the litigation.”

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