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Sixth Circuit Revives Michigan Prisoner’s Challenge to Guard Tackle That Broke His Foot by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a ruling on September 30, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit found not one but two errors in a lower court’s dismissal of a Michigan prisoner’s …
Louisiana Prisoner Sustains Claim Against Prison Doctor for Allowing Assignment to “Field Duty” Despite Known Ankle Injury by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 7, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana refused to dismiss claims against a doctor with the Department of Public Safety …
Eighth Circuit Rules Iowa Prisoner’s Adverse Summary Judgment Is Not a “Strike” by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In an amended complaint filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa on December 17, 2025, state prisoner Nersius Adonliel Artisani, also known as …
Eleventh Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Six Female Alabama Jail Detainees’ Sexual Assault Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 17, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a district court’s summary dismissal of a federal civil rights suit brought by six women who …
Fifth Circuit Remands Louisiana Detainee’s Medical Grievance Case by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson In 2022, Stephen James was being held in the St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Jail while awaiting his trial. At his intake interview, he notified the medical staff of the prosthetic eye he had possessed for 55 …
Appeals Court Allows Illinois Prisoner’s Suit for Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled on December 23, 2024 that a district court erred in dismissing, without a hearing, prisoner-plaintiff Henry Jones’s 42 U.S.C. section 1983 complaint …
Eleventh Circuit Declines to Extend to Summary Judgment Proceedings a Rule Requiring District Courts to Notify Pro Se Litigants by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 13, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit declined to extend to summary judgment proceedings based on Bank v. Pitt, …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Seventh Circuit Offers Wisconsin Prisoner Just a Little Help in Suit Alleging He Was Held in Feces-Stained Cell Without Water by On June 26, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit partially vacated a summary judgment dismissal of a Wisconsin prisoner’s civil rights suit alleging that …
Fourth Circuit Revives Claims Against Virginia Jailers by Detainee They Allegedly Manhandled While Handcuffed by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 8, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials at Virginia’s Hampton Roads Regional Jail (HRRJ) …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Sixth Circuit Revives Challenge by Kentucky Prisoner Left Three Weeks in “Rancid” Paper Undershorts by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 17, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) officials who forced …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
TDCJ Denied Summary Judgment In Suit by Prisoner Who Missed Grievance Deadline Because Guard’s Assault Left Him In a Coma by It’s hard to tell who is slimier, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) guard who allegedly beat a prisoner into a coma or prison officials who then attempted …
Indiana Supreme Court Says “Summary Judgment Is Not Summary Trial,” Remanding State Prisoner’s Malpractice Claim to a Jury by On January 24, 2024, the Indiana Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling and remanded the medical malpractice complaint of state prisoner Edward Zaragoza against Wexford of Indiana LLC, the privately …
Fifth Circuit: Texas Prisoner’s Declaration Alone Sufficient to Send PLRA Exhaustion Dispute to Trial by On January 31, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a Texas prisoner’s uncorroborated declaration outlining steps he took to exhaust administrative remedies through the state Department of Criminal Justice …
Second Circuit Revives N.Y. Prisoner’s Suit Over Sing Sing Fire, 11 Other Prisoners Split $220,000 Settlement by On July 17, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s suit filed in connection with the fire at Sing Sing Correctional Facility …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
In Suit Over Moldy Cells Causing Fungal Infection, Illinois Warden Denied Summary Judgment Wins Anyway by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 19, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Illinois denied a state prison warden’s motion for summary judgment in a federal civil rights lawsuit over …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
No Summary Judgment for Private Transportation Company in Maryland Detainee’s Suit Alleging “Horrific” 2,000-Mile Journey by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Over nine days in December 2015, during transport from Maryland to South Carolina to face charges he skipped child support payments, William Karn endured a grueling trek stretching more …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Nevada Muslim Prisoner Wins Suit Over Denial of Jumu’ah Prayer by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On June 14, 2022, the federal Court for the District of Nevada granted summary judgment to a Muslim state prisoner, agreeing with him that the state Department of Corrections (DOC) violated his constitutional rights …
Article • August 25, 2022
Sixth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for Wellpath in Kentucky Prisoner’s Suit Alleging Denial of Medical Care, Due to Lack of Expert Testimony by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit illustrates the importance of expert testimony in a prisoner’s …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Seventh Circuit Grudgingly Affirms Summary Judgment in Illinois’ Prisoner’s Suicide Lawsuit by Dale Chappell But Highlights Negligence of DOC and Wexford Health Staff by Dale Chappell Hinting that “another area of law” may provide relief, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on August 9, 2021, affirmed summary …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Sixth Circuit Holds Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Rule on Summary Judgment in Retaliation Suit by BOP Prisoner by Walter Himmelreich was a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio for one count of producing child pornography on October 20, 2008, when he was assaulted by another prisoner, Peter …
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