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Article • May 15, 2007
RLUIPA and RFRA Substantial Burden Defined by RLUIPA and RFRA Substantial Burden Defined Substantial burden is a necessary element of claims under RLUIPA and RFRA; that term is "akin to significant pressure which directly coerces the religious adherent to conform his or her behavior accordingly. Thus, a substantial burden can …
Article • May 15, 2007
Seizure of State Court Settlement Damages by MO DOC Upheld by Federal Courts by The plaintiff had cash seized on arrest; it was neither returned nor forfeited, so he sued; there was a settlement and the money was paid into his prison account. Eight days later the state invoked the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Sheriff Not Liable for Slip and Fall in Showers by The plaintiff didn't exhaust because, he says, he was unaware of the requirement. His claim is dismissed with prejudice, since he is no longer in the jail and remedies are unavailable. The plaintiff failed to allege that the Sheriff was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prison Psychologist Not Liable for Failing to Treat Suicidal, Feces Eating Prisoner by Prison Psychologist Not Liable for Failing to Treat Suicidal, Feces Eating Prisoner The plaintiff sued a prison psychologist. The defendant did not argue that the plaintiff did not have a serious mental illness. A legitimate risk of …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Dismissal of Visiting Denial Suit by Gang Founder by The plaintiff, claimed to be a founder of the Bloods, alleged that he was denied contact visits in the New York City jails even after he grieved the issue and won it. Defendants moved for judgment on the pleadings. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
State Court Ruling on Good Time Calculating Creates Liberty Interest by The defendants failed to credit the plaintiff properly for good time, even though they had obtained a decision in prior litigation with him stating the correct way of calculating it. As a result he spent six extra months in …
Retaliation by NY Jail Guards Not Barred by PLRA by The plaintiff complained that the defendants retaliated against him for public criticism of police misconduct. He was arrested on seemingly trumped-up charges, transferred from Orange County to Rikers Island with false information that his claim to have been a police …
Article • May 15, 2007
NY Food Load Suit Dismissal Reversed Under RLUIPA by The plaintiff alleged that an officer ordered him to return his food tray and cup while he was performing salat, knowing that his religious beliefs prohibited his responding, and issued a misbehavior report. The plaintiff was subjected to a week of …
Confiscation of Prisoner Property Upheld by The confiscation of the plaintiff's property did not deny due process because the state made post-deprivation remedies available in the form of a grievance procedure. At 515: "The mere fact that plaintiff has faced some difficulty in having his grievance heard, based on his …
Prisoner Can Block Repayment of Social Security Payments in Court by The plaintiff was imprisoned and the Social Security Administration notified him that it was stopping his retirement benefits and seeking $9,577 in overpayments received before they figured out he was locked up. SSA refused to waive the overpayment under …
Article • May 15, 2007
BOP Prisoner Can Sue Cornell Run Jail in Rhode Island under § 1983 by The plaintiff complained about events at a jail that was constructed by a municipality under state law authorization to provide the U.S. Marshals Service with space for federal pre-trial detainees. The plaintiff initially sued the Detention …
Article • May 15, 2007
North Dakota Ad Seg Placement Upheld by The plaintiff was placed and retained in administrative segregation because he was threatening staff and other inmates. He received several opportunities to meet with the administrative segregation committee and the warden and declined them. His continuation in administrative segregation did not deny due …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Skin, Failure to Treat
Jail Failure to Treat Psoriasis Upheld by In this seemingly incompetently litigated case, the plaintiff filed a response to a summary judgment stating that the facts are "voluminous" and incorporating the complaint and brief's statement of facts by reference, instead of complying with the rule requiring a "separate and concise" …
Article • May 15, 2007
Tight Handcuffs on Arrestee Violates Fourth Amendment by Placing excessively tight handcuffs on an Pennsylvania arrestee and needlessly failing to loosen them for ten minutes, resulting in permanent nerve damage, would constitute excessive force under the Fourth Amendment under the circumstances alleged, where the officer was not in a dangerous …
No Authority for ADA to Prohibit Fee for Disabled Parking Placards by The Commerce Clause does not empower Congress, via Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, to prohibit a $2.00 charge for placards authorizing the use of parking spaces reserved for the disabled. The court prescribes an "as …
Police Retaliation Against Expert Witness States Claim by Intimidating expert witnesses is within the scope of the civil rights conspiracy statute. Expert testimony (in this case, testimony for plaintiff in an excessive force case by instructors at a police academy) is protected speech. Actions by police chiefs and sheriffs to …
Mentally Ill WI Prisoner Sues over Control Unit Conditions by The plaintiff raised various constitutional claims, discussed below, and moved for class certification. The court denies it because the case is pro se and absent class members are "entitled at least to the assurance of competent representation afforded by licensed …
Article • May 15, 2007
BOP Ordered to Consider Work Release Placement by The Federal Bureau of Prisons' abrupt imposition of a new statutory interpretation holding that placement in a community corrections center was not "imprisonment" and could not be done for more than the last 10 per cent of a prisoner's sentence did not …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Cannot be Class Representative and File Industrial Suit Over Same Claims by Prisoner Cannot be Class Representative and File Industrial Suit Over Same Claims The plaintiff alleged that she was raped and impregnated by a correction officer. She filed a damage suit in one district and subsequently became a …
Article • May 15, 2007
ADA Injunctions Allowed Under 11th Amendment by State officials can be sued in their official capacities for injunctive relief under the ADA notwithstanding the Eleventh Amendment. The court declines to decide the constitutionality of the statute on an interlocutory appeal from the denial of Eleventh Amendment immunity. See: McCarthy v. …
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