SMYTH, CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR

v.

HOWARD

Citator

Cited By (15 total)

• Sostre v. McGINNIS, 442 F.2d 178 (2d Cir. 1971)
  …* must not be * * * capriciously or unreliably determined”); Dunn v. California Dept. of Corrections, 400 F. 2d 340, 342 (9th Cir. 1968); Williams v. Patterson, 389 F. 2d 374 (10th Cir. 1968); Howard v. Smyth, 365 F. 2d 428 (4th Cir.) cert. denied, 385 U.S. 988, 87 S.Ct. 599, 17 L.Ed.2d 449 (1966) (arbitrary and serious punishment of activities closely related to first amendment freedoms) ; Jones v. Rivers, 338 F. 2d 862, 874 (4th Cir. 1964); Hyser v. Reed, supra, 318 F. 2d at 242 (basic fairness requires…
• Jackson v. Bishop, 404 F.2d 571 (8th Cir. 1968)
  …though the Eighth Circuit cases just cited concern a federal institution, the principle, of course, has equal application to a state penitentiary. Wright v. McMann, supra, 387 F. 2d at 522; Howard v. Smyth, 365 F. 2d 428 (4 Cir. 1966), cert. denied, 385 U.S. 988, 87 S.Ct. 599, 17 L.Ed.2d 449. This takes us then to a consideration of the meaning and scope of the Eighth Amendment’s proscription of the infliction of “cruel and unusual punishments.” The phrase appeared in the English Bill of Rights of December…
• Wright v. McMANN, 387 F.2d 519 (2d Cir. 1967)
  …oblems created by judicial interference in the internal discipline of state prisons, in appropriate cases they will not hesitate to intervene. Pierce v. LaVallee, 293 F. 2d 233 (2d Cir. 1961); Howard v. Smyth, 365 F. 2d 428 (4th Cir.), cert, denied, 385 U.S. 988, 87 S.Ct. 599, 17 L.Ed.2d 449 (1966); Jordan v. Fitzharris, 257 F.Supp. 674 (N.D.Cal.1966); Fulwood v. Clemmer, 206 F.Supp. 370 (D.D.C.1962); Talley v. Stephens, 247 F.Supp. 683 (E.D.Ark.1965). The harshest blow to the old “hands-off” doctrine was…