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Oregon Prisoners Confined For Mental Illness Causing Sexual Deviancy Entitled to Adequate Treatment by Oregon Prisoners Confined For Mental Illness Causing Sexual Deviancy Entitled to Adequate Treatment In 1978, Merlin Ohlinger and another man identified only as Haddon (plaintiffs) were Oregon state prisoners. Both had indeterminate life sentences under OKS …
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Race/Exposure Claims by In an unpublished order, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of an Illinois prisoner's racial discrimination and pepper spray exposure claims. Illinois prisoner Johnnie Flournoy brought suit in federal court asserting several unrelated constitutional violations. The district court dismissed …
$145,000 Verdict in Retaliatory Transfer Case by While at a Michigan prison work camp, prisoner Gerald L. Petrowski committed a major infraction, resulting in transfer to a high security level prison. Petrowski had a preexisting foot deformity that prevented him from wearing regulation prison shoes. At the new prison Petrowski …
Article • May 15, 2007
NY Court Certifies Class Action of Pay Searched Minorities by The court certifies a class of black and Latino men stopped and frisked by the Street Crimes Unit and alleging lack of probable cause and racial profiling. Class certification is particularly appropriate where a plaintiff seeks injunctive relief against discriminatory …
Article • May 15, 2007
Requesting Party May Be Required to Pay Discovery Copying Costs by An African-American state trooper alleged employment discrimination. The magistrate judge should not have required defendants to produce photocopies of five years worth of personnel files of other officers; it was sufficient to produce two years' worth for review. Rule …
Article • May 15, 2007
Class Action With 30-40 Members Certified by The court certifies a class in a case alleging racial discrimination in housing based on census data and various calculations and assumptions suggesting that there are 30 to 40 potential class members---i.e., African Americans who have been racially steered by a particular company. …
Sex Offender Treatment Records Not Subject to Discovery by The plaintiff was raped in a McDonald's parking lot and sued the company. The rapist is now in prison and receiving mental health treatment, and the victim is seeking his prison mental health records. Under state law (the case being a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ohio Court Certifies Guard Gender Discrimination Class Action by Plaintiff female correction officers sued for gender discrimination and sought both injunctive relief and damages. The court certifies the class for injunctive relief but not for damages, rejecting the rule prevailing in other circuits that if other than "incidental" damages are …
Article • May 15, 2007
Class of Disabled Riders Certified by A 6% rate of denial of requests for transportation for the disabled is "substantial"; the court notes that rides are regularly denied, "not for reasons outside defendants' control, but because of a lack of available seats, which in turn is attributable to defendants' insufficient …
Guard Loses Gender Discrimination Suit by The court holds that a New York State correction officer failed to prove gender discrimination; five incidents of harassment over four years did not establish a hostile work environment. The officer could not pursue a claim of disciplinary action, not raised in the officer's …
Article • May 15, 2007
Disability Not Required for Disability Discrimination Student Plaintiffs by A student asserting disability discrimination in education need not show a learning disability. At 147: "It was sufficient to demonstrate that [she] was substantially limited in a major life activity of central importance to her daily life. . . . There …
Racial Discrimination Claim in IL Civil Commitment Must Be Brought under Habeas by The plaintiffs are present and former civil detainees in the Sexually Violent Persons Units of the prison system who alleged that commitment to that program reflected racial bias against African-American offenders who committed crimes against white victims. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Firing of Maryland Muslim Chaplain Upheld by The plaintiff, who said he was constructively discharged from a contractual position as Muslim chaplain, sued under Title VII, alleging that he was discriminated against by being subjected to a racially hostile workplace. The court concludes as a matter of law that the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Consent Decree Deadlines Extended Due to Attorney Conduct by In litigation by African-American farmers against the Department of Agriculture alleging racial discrimination in lending practices, a consent decree was entered. After class counsel's failure to meet crucial deadlines, the district court interpreted the decree to allow extension of the deadlines …
Alcoholism is a Disability by Alcoholism is an "impairment" under the disability statutes; to be a disability, an impairment must substantially limit one or more major life activities, and the impact must be "permanent or long-term." Major life activities include caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, …
Court Upholds Firing of Probationary Cop for Affair With Captain by A female probationary police officer was terminated for having an affair with a male police captain. The captain was not terminated. There is no equal protection violation, since under the law of the Eighth Circuit a probationary officer and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Okay to Hold Sexually Violent Predator in Jail for Trial by The plaintiff was held after the expiration of his sentence pursuant to the state Sexually Violent Predators Act. He spent some time in a county jail after that point, in connection with hearings on his commitment, and alleges that …
Article • May 15, 2007
Kentucky Sex Offender Classification Upheld by The plaintiff complained he was wrongfully classified as a sex offender based on a prior state conviction for criminal sexual abuse. The court finds that federal prison policy supports the classification, and classification decisions do not present constitutional issues. The classification based on a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Gay New York Prison Guard Sues over Harassment by The plaintiff complained of a course of severe anti-gay harassment of him in his employment by the prison system, apparently as a correction officer. Claims against DOCS and prison personnel in their official capacities were barred by the Eleventh Amendment, but …
ADA Group Home Suit Not Moot by The plaintiffs' claim against a fire department of disability discrimination against a group home was not mooted by its changed interpretation of the fire code, since the interpretation might change back. At 574: "The defendant's burden is a heavy one to ensure the …
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