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Article • April 15, 2013
Sixth Circuit Upholds Kentucky Sex Abuse Case Dismissal; Case Filed Outside 1-Year Limitation Period by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a Kentucky woman's suit alleging that her probation officer sexually assaulted her. The court found that a one-year statute of limitations applied, and she filed …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Mandamus
Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals Redefines Michigan Prisoner’s Mandamus by The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit subjected a Michigan prisoner’s petition for a writ of mandamus to the five prong test case, John B. v. Goetz, 531 F.3d 457 (6th Cir. 2008), and other case …
Article • April 15, 2013
Statute of Limitations Kills Oregon False Imprisonment Suit by The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed the statute of limitations dismissal of a former prisoner's false imprisonment suit. In three separate judgments, Loren MacNab was convicted of four counts of failing to register as a sex offender and sentenced to jail …
Article • April 15, 2013
Supermax Prisoner Denied FOIA and Privacy Requests by 10th Circuit by Derek Gilna Mark Jordan, a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX), in Florence, Colorado, has been denied relief under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. Section 552, and the Privacy Act (PA), 5 …
Article • April 15, 2013
Supreme Court of Arkansas Weighs Hospital's Private Doctors Against FOIA by The Supreme Court of Arkansas delivered opinion in April 2012 in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) action levied by a law firm against three doctors and ancillary institutions involved in a medical malpractice suit. The firm of Harrill …
Article • April 15, 2013
Tenth Circuit: Individual Damage Claims Improper Under RLUIPA; Right Against Rastafarian Haircut Not Clearly Established by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's dismissal of a Kansas Rastafarian prisoner's constitutional and statutory challenges to a requirement that he comb out or cut his dreadlocks. Sturgeon Stewart was …
Article • April 15, 2013
Tenth Circuit Reverses $8,000 Awarded for Attorney's Fee as Too Arbitrary by The Tenth Circuit reversed $8,000 awarded for attorney's fees. Michael Zinna used websites JeffcoExposed.Com and ColoradoExposed.Com to report on local government issues and provided a public service by encouraging transparency and accountability in Jefferson County government. He exposed …
Article • April 15, 2013
Third Circuit Denies Claim against Government for Attorney’s Fees under EAJA by Derek Gilna Dr. John Handron, a psychologist, failed in his attempt to win reimbursement for tens of thousands of attorneys' fees from the government he had incurred in defending the government's claim that he had overbilled Medicare more …
Article • April 15, 2013
Nebraska Sex Offender Argues Due Process in Appeal of Commitment Order by Before the Nebraska Supreme Court, Appellant S.J. challenged the lower court’s affirmation of the Mental Health Board of the Fourth Judicial District’s order terming him a “dangerous sexual offender” and as such confining him to an inpatient treatment …
Article • April 15, 2013
Nevada Public Records Act Requires State to Provide Log of Basic Information About Withheld Information by In a unanimous opinion, the Nevada Supreme Court has held that, as a general matter, the state's Public Records Act (PRA) requires a state entity withholding requested records to provide the requesting party with …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Mail, Publications/Books
Ninth Circuit Affirms Confiscation of Book about Black Panthers Sent by Mail to Prisoner by In an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to prison officials who confiscated a book from a prisoner’s incoming mail. In 2009, prison officials seized a book, The Black Panthers …
Article • April 15, 2013
Ninth Circuit: Officer May Be Liable for Unlawful Seizure and Conspiracy by On September 29, 2011, the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals held that a Michigan police officer who conspired to falsely arrest a man was not entitled to summary judgment. Nidal Bazzi, a felon on federal supervised release, was …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Media
NJ Supreme Court Hears Defamation Suit against Local Newspaper by The Supreme Court of New Jersey decided a defamation and false-light suit in February 2012 for the defendants, principals with the weekly local newspaper, The Nutley Sun. The suit was initiated by two individuals who were the subject of civil …
Article • April 15, 2013
North Dakota Supreme Court Clarifies Child Support Lien Issues Regarding State Prisoner by The Supreme Court for the State of North Dakota affirmed the judgment of the Ward County District Court, Northwest Judicial District of North Dakota, affirming an administrative enforcement action placing a lien, ordered September 28, 2011, on …
Article • April 15, 2013
Nurse Settles Washington DOC Wrongful Termination Suit by In the Superior Court of Snohomish County, State of Washington, Plaintiff Annette Belden settled for $100,000 in May 2004 a wrongful termination suit against the Washington Department of Corrections. Belden, an employee at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Wash., worked as …
Article • April 15, 2013
Ohio Supreme Court Affirms Denial of Cincinnati Enquirer's FOI Request by The Cincinnati Enquirer's request for access to certain records of the Cincinnati Police Department pursuant to R.C. 149.43, the Public Records Act, has been denied on right to privacy grounds by the Ohio Supreme Court. Affirming an appellate court …
Article • April 15, 2013
Oregon Jury Awards $11,250 for False Arrest by On November 7, 2012, a Vancouver, Washington, man who was arrested for refusing to consent to a police search of his pockets was awarded $11,250. Sometime after midnight, in November, 2009, Jose Gasque, then 29, was sitting on a Portland, Oregon, curb …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing
Oregon Prison Assault Brings Attempted Murder Charge by An Oregon prisoner faces attempted murder charges and at least 10 more years in prison for brutally assaulting another prisoner at an intake facility in December 2011. While at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility's (CCCF) Intake Center in December 2011, prisoner James …
Article • April 15, 2013
Oregon Cop Sued for On-duty Forced Fellatio by A woman who was forced to perform oral sex on an on-duty Beaverton, Oregon police officer has brought federal suit against the officer and the City. On at least two occasions in 2010, Beaverton police officer Joshua Michael Jensen, 27, arranged to …
Article • April 15, 2013
State Official Charged with Sex Crime by A New York parole board member has been charged in federal court with attempting to solicit an underage girl for sex. George Ortloff, a former Republican New York lawmaker, was arrested on October 13, 2008 at an undisclosed hotel in Colonie, New York. …
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