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Seventh Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Police Excessive Force and Supervisory Liability Suit Brought by Veteran Illinois Prison Guard by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of excessive force claims against an Illinois police chief. Illinois Department of Corrections guard David Backes is a veteran of the Persian …
Rehder v. Huggins, TN, Settlement, Excessive Force - Pepper Spray, 2012 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEAS~. PLEASE READ CAREF'(JJ.,LY. TIDS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT At"JD GENERAL RELEASE INCLUDES A RELEASE OF ALL KNOWN AND UNKNOWN CLAIMS. WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, Christopher Rehder alleges that, while an inmate in the _. · _. · · …
Brief • December 28, 2011
Filed under: Pepper Spray/Tear Gas
Paulcin v. Spears, FL, New Trial Motion, Planned Tear Gas Assault, 2011 Case 4:10-cv-00483-RH-WCS Document 96 Filed 12/28/11 Page 1 of 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION PROPHET PAULCIN, Case No.: 4:10-cv-483-RH Plaintiff, v. DUANE SPEARS, et al., Defendants. PLAINTIFF’S MOTION …
Article • November 15, 2011
$36,125 Settlement in California Prisoner’s Beating and Pepper Spray Claim by The California Department of Corrections (CDC) paid $36,125 to settle a lawsuit claiming Eighth Amendment violations over a guard’s pepper spraying and beating of a prisoner without provocation and for subsequent denial of medical care to treat resulting injuries. …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
$10,000 Settlement in North Carolina Prisoner’s Pepper Spraying by The North Carolina Department of Corrections (NCDOC) paid a prisoner $10,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming guards used excessive force by pepper spraying him. Lanesboro Correctional Institution prisoner Bill Rayburn had been asking guards to move him away from another prisoner …
Mann v. Failey et al, SC, Complaint, guard brutality retaliation, 2011 0:11-cv-02232-RMG Date Filed 08/23/11 Entry Number 1 Page 1 of 19 0:11-cv-02232-RMG Date Filed 08/23/11 Entry Number 1 Page 2 of 19 0:11-cv-02232-RMG Date Filed 08/23/11 Entry Number 1 Page 3 of 19 0:11-cv-02232-RMG Date Filed 08/23/11 Entry Number …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
$4,000 Settlement for Arkansas Prisoner Pepper Sprayed by Guards by The Arkansas Department of Correction (ADOC) has paid $4,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a prisoner who was pepper sprayed three times by guards. While confined at the Varner Supermax Unit in 2005, Eric Winston was repeatedly pepper sprayed. …
Article • August 15, 2011
Texas DOC & Nurse not Liable for Prisoner's Death by Texas DOC & Nurse not Liable for Prisoner's Death Damon Hollimon, a Texas state prisoner, was repeatedly tear-gassed at Huntsville prison after refusing to come out of his cell. When he was removed from his cell, a nurse noted that …
Qualified Immunity Based Summary Judgment Denied in Ohio Excessive Force Case by On November 25, 2008, an Ohio federal court denied prison officials' motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity in an excessive force case. The court also denied defendants' motions to dismiss, for judgment on the pleadings and …
Tenth Circuit Vacates Class Certification in Jail Conditions Suit; Case Settles Following Remand by Mark Wilson On February 4, 2009, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a Colorado sheriff’s interlocutory appeal challenging a class certification order and remanded the case for further proceedings, where it eventually settled in April …
D.C. Agrees to Pay $2,700 to Settle FOIA/Civil Rights Claims Over Use of Tear Gas by On August 23, 2004, the District of Columbia agreed to pay $2,700 to a former prisoner at the D.C. Jail in order to settle two suits—one under the Freedom of Information Act (FIOA), and …
Article • March 15, 2011
$17,000 Settlement in Guards’ Excessive Force against D.C. Prisoner by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $17,000 to settle the lawsuit of prisoner Darryl G. Wise for injuries sustained due to the use of excessive force against him by guards. The complaint in this action involved events that occurred at …
Blind Texas Prisoner Dies after Confrontation with Guards by Thord “Catfish “ Dockray, 42, a blind Texas state prisoner with a history of mental illness, died on May 13, 2010 following a violent altercation with prison guards. Dockray was housed alone in a cell in the medical wing of the …
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Injunction in Florida DOC Mental Health Conditions Pepper Spray Case by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 20, 2010, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s order that found a warden and the secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) had …
California Prison Settles Prisoner’s Excessive Force Suit for $15,000 by On January 28, 2010, California prisoner Garrison S. Johnson, proceeding pro se, signed a settlement agreement to resolve a federal lawsuit he had filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of his civil rights by officials with the …
Brief • December 29, 2010
Bahl v. County of Ramsey, MN, Order, No ASL Interpreter Provided to Arrestee, 2010 CASE 0:08-cv-05001-DSD-JJG Document 135 Filed 12/29/10 Page 1 of 28 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Douglas Duane Bahl and Susan Kovacs-Bahl, Civil No. 08-5001(DSD/JJG) Plaintiffs, ORDER v. County of Ramsey, Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department …
$500,000 Settlement in Maryland Prisoner’s Death from Pepper Spraying by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A half-million dollar settlement was paid to the family of a Maryland prisoner who died when prison officials used excessive pepper spray while extracting him from his cell, and then failed to provide medical …
Sacramento County Partially Settles Taxpayer Suit Alleging Il-legal Conditions of Confinement in Juvenile Facilities by Michael Brodheim The parties to a taxpayer lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, which alleges that conditions in Sacramento County’s juvenile detention facilities violate state statutory, constitutional and regulatory laws, reached a partial settlement and …
$100,000 Settlement for City of New York Police Unit’s Excessive Force against Homeless Man Seeking Work by The City of New York paid $100,000 to settle a lawsuit for the violation of civil rights, false arrest and excessive force against two men by police officers. On October 27, 2006, Kojak …
Missoula County Jail Agrees to Settle Excessive Force Suit for $490,000 by Missoula County, Montana has agreed to pay $490,000 to a mentally ill woman who was shot six times by guards with a pepperball gun. Sunny Bartell was arrested on July 1, 2006 for disorderly conduct after police were …
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