Title: Parker v. Gorczyk

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

Parker v. Gorczyk (2000-540); 173 Vt. 477; 787 A.2d 494

[Filed 26-Sep-2001]

                                 ENTRY ORDER

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 2000-540

                               JUNE TERM, 2001

Gordon Parker and Robert Bailey	       }	APPEALED FROM:
                                       }
                                       }
     v.	                               }	Windsor Superior Court
                                       }	
                                       }
John Gorczyk	                       }	DOCKET NO. 153-4-95 Wrcv

                                                Trial Judge: Alan W. Cheever

             In the above-entitled cause, the Clerk will enter:

       Defendant, John Gorczyk, Commissioner of the Vermont Department of
  Corrections, appeals  from a summary judgment of the superior court
  permanently enjoining him from implementing a  new policy that would make
  prisoners convicted of violent felonies ineligible for furlough until the 
  expiration of their minimum sentences.  Plaintiffs are two prisoners who
  are subject to the new  policy and a class consisting of all prisoners,
  present and future, who are incarcerated for committing  a violent felony. 
  The superior court concluded that the furlough policy is a rule which must
  go  through rulemaking procedures of the Vermont Administrative Procedures
  Act (APA) to be  effective.  We agree and affirm.

       This case has already been before us.  In Parker v. Gorczyk, 170 Vt.
  263,