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Article • November 15, 2011
Open Public Records Act Plaintiff Entitled to Attorney’s Fees, New Jersey Appellate Court Holds by The Appellate Division for the Superior Court of New Jersey has reversed in part a lower court’s refusal to award attorney’s fees to a plaintiff in an New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA) suit. …
Article • November 15, 2011
Peer Review Document Discoverable in Lawsuit Involving Prisoner’s Death by A Florida federal court ordered disclosure of a peer review document that concerned a prisoner’s death, holding the document is not privileged. The order requires the defendants, the Florida Department of Corrections and Prison Health Services, to provide the Memorandum …
Article • November 15, 2011
Settlement Payments for Work Related Injuries Do Not Begin Until After Release from Prison by Settlement payments for work related injuries do not begin until after release from federal custody, U.S. magistrate Judge Brain Owsley held in April 30, 2008. On March 21, 1997, Jerry L. Thompson, a federal prisoner, …
Sixth Circuit Upholds $2.5 Million Jury Award for Wrongly Convicted Women by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke On April 12,2011, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion upholding the $2.5 million jury award and $250-per-hour attorney-fees award to two women who were wrongly convicted of felonies. Kimberly Sykes …
Article • November 15, 2011
Illinois Public Defender Documents Exemptions Discussed by Illinois’ First District Court of Appeal held that a trial court’s use of “one-size-fits-all, generic and conclusionary” affidavits to determine the City of Chicago’s motion to dismiss a prisoner’s document request “is rubber stamp judicature,” and the court said it would “decline to …
Article • November 15, 2011
New York Prisoner’s Medical Experimentation Complaint Improperly Dismissed by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a New York federal district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s claim that he was subject to “inhumane treatment” by having medical experiments conducted on him. The 1971 claim of prisoner Otis Clay was brought …
Article • November 15, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court Defines Prevailing Party for § 1988 Purposes by U.S. Supreme Court Defines Prevailing Party for § 1988 Purposes The U.S. Supreme Court held that the touchstone of the prevailing party inquiry must be the material alteration of the legal relationship of the parties in a manner that …
Vermont Court Passes on Resolving Whether Prison Health Services is Subject to Vermont’s Public Records Act by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample A Vermont Superior Court passed on resolving whether Prison Health Services (PHS) is subject to Vermont’s Public Records Act (PRA). David Sleigh submitted a PRA request to PHS …
Article • November 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit Reverses Conviction after Prosecutors Improperly Questioned Defendant about Details of Prior Conviction by By Brandon Sample The U.S. court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a defendant’s conviction for assaulting a guard after prosecutors improperly questioned the defendant concerning details of a prior bank fraud conviction. Daniel …
Article • November 15, 2011
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Witnesses
Prisoners Not Entitled to Witness Fees by Prisoners are not entitled to witness fees, U.S. District Judge Michael Reagan recently held. Christopher Lekas, a prisoner at the Dixon Correctional Center in Dixon, Illinois, testified via video feed from prison in a civil rights action. After testifying, Dixon filed a motion …
Article • November 15, 2011
Court Orders Discovery of Documents in Sex Abuse Suit by On October 14, 2004, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein ordered the defendants in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action to produce copies of documents related to the sexual misconduct allegations in the suit. The plaintiffs alleged that guards had …
Brief • November 14, 2011
Moreno v. City of Concord, CA, Complaint, Unlawful Arrest, 2011 1 Andrew C. Schwartz (State Bar No. 64578) CASPER, MEADOWS, SCHWARTZ & COOK 2 A Professional Corporation 3 4 5 6 7 8 2121 North California Blvd., Suite 1020 Walnut Creek, California 94596 Telephone: (925) 947-1147 Facsimile: (925) 947-1133 schwartz@cmslaw.com …
Smith v. City of Oakland, Order Approving Punitive Damages, Public Parole Strip Search, 2011 Case3:07-cv-06298-MHP Document82 Filed11/03/11 Page1 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 8 9 No. 07-6298 MHP JOHN SMITH, KIRBY BRADSHAW, SPENCER LUCAS, et al., United States …
Brief • October 23, 2011
Filed under: Witnesses
US DOJ v Thompson, WA, Motion to Exclude Rule 702, witness memory, 2011 Case 2:09-cr-00088-FVS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Document 692 MICHAEL C. ORMSBY United States Attorney Aine Ahmed Tim M. Durkin Assistant United States Attorneys Eastern District of Washington Victor Boutros, Trial Attorney Civil Rights Division …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Sixth Circuit: Prisoner Must be Allowed Direct Appeal When Prison Delayed Appeal Mailings by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Sixth Circuit held that Michigan had to allow the appeal of a prisoner’s criminal conviction when prison officials had delayed the mailing of his appeal documents until after the filing …
Ninth Circuit: California Prisoner Need Not Appeal from Satisfactory Grievance Response in Order to Exhaust Administrative Remedies by Michael Brodheim Clarifying “the boundaries of proper exhaustion” within the context of California’s prison system, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prisoner “has no obligation to appeal from a …
California District Court Rips Feds for “False and Misleading Information” in FOIA Case, Then Does Nothing by In a lawsuit filed by six Islamic organizations and five individuals, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division, found that the FBI and the U.S. government had “provided …
90% Remittitur of $750,000 Strip Search Verdict Vacated; Plaintiffs Accept $440,385.08 on Remand by Mark Wilson On June 30, 2010, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court had abused its discretion in reducing a $750,000 jury award to $75,000 in a case raising illegal strip search …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court: State P&A Can Sue Another State Agency for Records by David Reutter U.S. Supreme Court: State P&A Can Sue Another State Agency for Records by David Reutter The U.S. Supreme Court held on April 19, 2011 that sovereign immunity does not apply when one agency of a …
Brief • October 3, 2011
Cox v. County of Otero, NM, Settlement, Excessive Force - Beating, 2011 FULL RELEASE, SETTLEMENT, AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT For the sole consideration of Twenty Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($20,500.00), the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, MICHAEL COX, on his own behalf and on behalf of his heirs, …
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