Marshall Dewayne Williams v. United States of America, et al.

Summary

The United States District Court for the District of Kansas denies Marshall DeWayne Williams’s motion for an emergency preliminary injunction. The court concludes that Plaintiff failed to make the heightened showing required to establish a likelihood of success on the merits and entitlement to preliminary relief concerning the alleged threatened disposal of his legal materials.

Holdings

1. Williams was not entitled to a preliminary injunction because he failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits and did not make the heightened showing required for this extraordinary remedy.
2. The allegations did not establish irreparable harm because they did not show an injury that was certain, great, actual, and not merely theoretical or feared to occur at an indefinite future time.
3. In evaluating preliminary injunctive relief affecting prison conditions, the court must give substantial weight to adverse impacts on public safety and prison operations, and such relief should issue only under exceptional and compelling circumstances.

Questions Presented

1. Whether Williams demonstrated entitlement to a preliminary injunction preventing the defendants from disposing of his legal materials.
2. Whether Williams demonstrated entitlement to injunctive relief requiring the defendants to permit him to pursue the Bureau of Prisons administrative-remedy process.

Disposition

other