BIAS

v.

GIES ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Dep't OF Corr. v. Roseman, 390 So. 2d 394 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980)
  …to others. Concerning the asserted right of prisoners and their chosen partners to marry in that ceremonial sense, a three-judge federal district court said in Johnson v. Rockefeller, 365 F.Supp. 377 (S.D.N.Y. 1973), aff’d sum nom. Butler v. Wilson, 415 U.S. 953, 94 S.Ct. 1479, 39 L.Ed.2d 569 (1974), [W]e are here dealing with a situation where the basis of the challenge to state power is the mere formal ceremony of marriage. That ceremony has none of the elements of marital privacy which bring the marriag…
• Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78 (U.S. 1987)
  …confinement or the pursuit of legitimate corrections goals. Taken together, we conclude that these remaining elements are sufficient to form a constitutionally protected marital relationship in the prison context. Our decision in Butler v. Wilson, 415 U. S. 953 (1974), summarily affirming Johnson v. Rockefeller, 365 F. Supp. 377 (SDNY 1973), is not to the contrary. That case involved a prohibition on marriage only for inmates sentenced to life imprisonment; and, importantly, denial of the right was part of…
• Bradbury v. Louie L. Wainwright, 718 F.2d 1538 (11th Cir. 1983)
  …prisoner marriages. Hudson v. Rhodes, 579 F. 2d 46, 46 (6th Cir. 1978), cert. denied, 440 U.S. 919, 99 S.Ct. 1241, 59 L.Ed.2d 470 (1979). The opinion relied on Johnson v. Rockefeller, 365 F.Supp. 377 (S.D.N. Y.1973), aff’d sub nom. Butler v. Wilson, 415 U.S. 953, 94 S.Ct. 1479, 39 L.Ed.2d 569 (1974). A three-judge panel in Johnson v. Rockefeller sustained a New York statute which prohibited life-term inmates from marrying. 365 F.Supp. at 381. Although Johnson v. Rockefeller and the summary affirmance thereo…