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Seventh Circuit Finds Jail Guard May Be Liable for Delayed Response to Illinois Detainee’s Fatal Heart Attack by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a suit alleging delayed medical care caused the …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
San Diego County Jail Accused of Letting Mentally Ill Detainee Starve to Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 26, 2023, two sons filed suit for the estate of their schizophrenic dad, accusing officials at San Diego County’s Central Jail where he was incarcerated of letting him die …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Virginia Settles Suit Over Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Hepatitis C for $700,000 by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 5, 2023, a settlement was reached between the estate of a Virginia prisoner who died from untreated Hepatitis C and his physician with the state Department of Corrections (DOC). …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
$3 Million Settlement for Illinois Pretrial Detainee’s Opioid Withdrawal Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A $3 million settlement in the 2020 withdrawal death of Illinois pretrial detainee Elissa A. Lindhorst at the Madison County Jail was fully executed on May 10, 2023. Lindhorst, 28, was another casualty …
Third Circuit Revives Claim by Federal Prisoner in Pennsylvania that Delayed Cancer Treatment Cost Him a Testicle by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a precedential opinion issued on August 21, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a federal prisoner incarcerated in the …
Brief • February 1, 2024
Filed under: Failure to Treat
McClure v. Thurston County, WA, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-05088-BHS Document 1 Filed 02/01/24 Page 1 of 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 7 8 9 NICOLE MCCLURE, 10 11 Plaintiff, v. 12 13 14 15 16 THURSTON …
Brief • January 29, 2024
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Picciano v. Clark County, WA, Order Denying Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings and Order Granting Motion to Compel Discovery, Inadequate Medical Care, 2024 Case 3:20-cv-06106-DGE Document 131 Filed 01/29/24 Page 1 of 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT …
Brief • January 21, 2024
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Green v. Anoka County, MN, Settlement, Inadequate Medical Treatment, 2025 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS This Settlement Agreement and Release of Claims ("Settlement Agreement") is effective as of the date of the last signature below and is made and entered into by, on the one hand, Deyonta Green ("Green" …
Brief • January 17, 2024
Tapia v. NaphCare, WA, Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Plaintiff's Discovery Motions, Medical Neglect, 2024 Case 2:22-cv-01141-KKE Document 86 Filed 01/17/24 Page 1 of 18 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 8 JAVIER TAPIA, Plaintiff, 9 …
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare by J.D. Schmidt by J.D. Schmidt On November 14, 2022, the Florida arm of Centurion Health, one of the nation’s largest private prison and jail healthcare companies, filed a lawsuit in Putnam County …
Second Circuit Strips Qualified Immunity from Connecticut Officials Who Ignored Prisoner’s Scalp Lesions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Observing that “Eighth Amendment claims for the deprivation of medical care are not analyzed body-part by body-part,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on July 14, …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Oklahoma Prisoner Uses COVID-19 Stimulus Check to Overturn Conviction by In June 2023, a judge in Oklahoma’s Sequoyah County overturned the murder conviction of Ricky Dority, 65, after the state prisoner spent his COVID-19 stimulus check to hire a private investigator, who then got a key witness to recant his …
$7.75 Million Paid by San Diego County After Jail Detainee Severely Injured in Fall from Top Bunk by A lawsuit filed in federal court against San Diego County and various jail employees settled on March 20, 2023, for $7.75 million, following four years of litigation. The underlying facts unfolded the …
Fifth Circuit Revives Suit Against Texas Jailers Who Tasered Detainee Suffering Epileptic Seizure by Douglas Ankney On July 18, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to jailers who tasered a detainee suffering an epileptic seizure at the Pasadena …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Deaths While Incarcerated Up 18% in Louisiana by A June 2023 report by Loyola University College of Law found that annual deaths behind bars in Louisiana jumped over 18% to an average of 187.5 in the period 2020-21. That’s up from an average of 158.6 between 2015 and 2019. Of …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Another Report Verifies That Prison Deaths Soared During COVID-19 Pandemic by A mortality study released on December 1, 2023, found that the death rate in U.S. prisons spiked 77% during 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, not all the increase was directly attributable to the disease. The …
Brief • December 29, 2023
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Wright v. The State of New York, NY, Claim, Assault and Battery, 2023 NEW YORK STATE COURT OF CLAIMS CHARLES WRIGHT, Claimant, VERIFIED CLAIM -againstClaim No.: E23-5143 THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent. Claimant, Charles Wright, appearing through his attorneys at Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco, LLP, hereby alleges …
Brief • December 29, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19
Diaz v. Polanco, USA, Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Covid-19, 2023 No. ______ In the Supreme Court of the United States ———————— RALPH DIAZ, et al., Petitioners, v. PATRICIA POLANCO, et al., Respondents. ———————— RALPH DIAZ, et al., Petitioners, v. MICHAEL HAMPTON, et al., Respondents. ———————— RALPH DIAZ, et al., …
Brief • December 21, 2023
Gardner v. State of Washington, WA, Settlement, Medical Neglect-Malpractice, 2023 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF CLAIM (Use with Non-Medicare Beneficiary) Gardner/Bradleyv. State of Washington, Department of Corrections Pierce County Superior Court, Cause No. 22-2-10833-4 FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of the sum of Nine Million Nine Hundred Thousand and No/100 Dollars …
Brief • December 6, 2023
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Greer v. County of San Diego, CA, Memo of Points and Authorities in Support of His Motion to Compel Information, Medical Neglect,2023 6 EUGENE G. IREDALE: SBN 75292 JULIA YOO: SBN 231163 GRACE JUN: SBN 287973 IREDALE & YOO, APC 105 West F Street, Fourth Floor San Diego, CA 92101-6036 …
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