Prison Equality

A Third Circuit panel <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PennPrisons-3CA.pdf">found</a></strong> a federal judge failed to meet the “needs-narrowness-intrusiveness criteria” for a preliminary injunction in a <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/pennsylvania-prison-defends-use-of-same-sex-facilities/">case</a> over disparate treatment in men’s and women’s prisons, so the injunction expired and the appeal is moot.

PHILADELPHIA – A Third Circuit panel found a federal judge failed to meet the “needs-narrowness-intrusiveness criteria” for a preliminary injunction in a case over disparate treatment in men’s and women’s prisons, so the injunction expired and the appeal is moot.

Categories / Appeals, Civil Rights

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