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Article • November 15, 2011
$950,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Police Shooting of Handcuffed Man by In May 2007, Wisconsin officials agreed to pay $950,000 to the family of a man who was shot in the head while handcuffed. In October of 2004, city of Portage police received information that Keith Galster, a convicted felon, had …
Article • November 15, 2011
$430,000 Settlement in North Carolina Police Department’s Failure to Enforce Protective Order by North Carolina’s Jonesville Police Department paid $430,000 to a lawsuit filed by Vernatta Cockerham, who claimed the police department failed to enforce a restraining order she had taken out against her estranged husband, Richard Ellerbee, on November …
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
Ohio DOC Not Liable in Prisoner’s MRSA Death by An Ohio claims court held that the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) is not liable for a prisoner’s death in a wrongful death and medical negligence lawsuit. The court’s ruling was based upon community-acquired MRSA not being widely acknowledged …
Article • November 15, 2011
State Not Liable for Escaped Juvenile Detainee’s Murder of Store Owner by The federal district court of the District of Columbia granted summary judgment to the defendants in a lawsuit seeking damages resulting from a store owner’s murder by an escaped juvenile detainee. The action was brought by the wife …
Article • November 15, 2011
$2,750,000 Settlement Reached in Washington Parolee Wrongful Death Suit by A $2,750,000 settlement was reached in a wrongful death suit stemming from an accident caused by a Washington parolee. On August 15, 1999 Kenneth Chambers, who was on parole, struck a vehicle driven by Kim E. Simonds. Chambers was driving …
Article • November 15, 2011
$12,000 Settlement Reached in Washington Parolee Wrongful Death Claim by A $12,000 settlement was reached in a wrongful death suit against the State of Washington and Pierce County. Tracy Joe Enoch-Jevne was convicted on four separate DUI counts spanning from February 1996 to December 1998. Due to an error, she …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Los Angeles County Pays $400,000 to Settle Juvenile Jail Prisoner Wrongful Death Suit by The Los Angeles County Board of Commissioners has approved a $400,000 settlement to resolve negligence, civil rights and other claims related to the wrongful death of a juvenile offender held at the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall. …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Taser International Settles Product Liability Lawsuit for $2.85 Million by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim Using tactics reminiscent of those once employed by tobacco companies, Taser International has for years engaged in a high-stakes campaign designed to deceive the public into believing that the stun guns it manufactures, known formally …
Booker v. Denver, CO, Complaint, Excessive Force Jail, 2011 Case 1:11-cv-00645-RBJ-KMT Document 36 Filed 10/04/11 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 54 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 11-cv-00645-WYD-KMT ESTATE OF MARVIN L. BOOKER, REVEREND B.R. BOOKER, SR., and ROXEY A. WALTON, as …
Article • September 15, 2011
Virginia City Settles Suit for $1.1M after Cop Kills Teen by Aaron Brown, an Alexandria, Virginia teenager, was shot to death in the parking lot of an International House of Pancakes (IHOP) by an Alexandria cop named Carl Stowe on February 25, 2006. Stowe shot at 18-year-old Brown's vehicle to …
Record of Previous Violence Gives Jail Officials Constructive Notice of Attack on Prisoner by On March 20, 2007, a New York state court of appeals held that a prisoner’s previous propensity for attacking other prisoners without provocation or warning and his housing in segregation served as sufficient constructive notice of …
Florida Prisoner’s Suicide Suit Settles for $500,000 by A $500,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit stemming from the 2006 suicide of an 18-year-old Florida prisoner. The suit was filed by the parents and estate of Aleshia Napier against the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), two private medical contractors …
Female Prisoners Removed from CCA Facility in Kentucky by Five years of staff-on-prisoner sexual abuse, inadequate medical care, security lapses and other problems finally forced Kentucky and Hawaiian officials to remove about 600 female prisoners from a privately-operated prison. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private-prison company, runs …
Brief • September 13, 2011
Lopez v. County of Tulare, CA, Complaint, Jail Suicide, 2011 5 MICHAEL J. HADDAD (State Bar No. 189114) JULIA SHERWIN (State Bar No. 189268) GINA ALTOMARE (State Bar No. 273099) HADDAD & SHERWIN 505 Seventeenth Street Oakland, California 94612 Telephone: (510) 452-5500 Facsimile: (510) 452-5510 6 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 1 …
Brief • September 12, 2011
Smith v. Wayne County, MI, Complaint, Jail Suicide, 2011 2:10-cv-14257-NGE-PJK Doc # 51 Filed 09/12/11 Pg 1 of 37 Pg ID 1111 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION GLORIA H. SMITH, individually and as CoPersonal Representative of the Estate of Jason Lewis Smith, and CAMILLE MITCHELL, …
Brief • September 8, 2011
Palmer v. State of AZ, AZ, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2011 Page 1 of 17 Print Document MICHAEL K. JEANES Clerk of the Superior Court 2 3 4 5 6 Joel B. Robbins, Esq. (011065) Anne E. Findling, Esq. (010871) ROBBINS & CURTIN, p.1.1.c. 301 East Bethany Home Road, Suite B-100 …
Brief • September 6, 2011
Filed under: Depositions, Wrongful Death
Dach v. Richmond, CA, Letter to Defendant, Wrongful Death, 2011 September 6, 2011 Mr. James V. Fitzgerald, III Mr. Noah Blechman McNamara, Dodge, et al. 1211 Newell Ave. P.O.Box 5288 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Via U.S. Mail and Email Re: Dach v. City of Richmond Dear Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. …
Article • August 15, 2011
Another Unsupervised Prisoner Beaten To Death in L.A. County Jail by The eighth prisoner-on-prisoner killing in the Los Angeles (LA) County Jail in the past two years occurred in November, 2005, in spite of earlier assurances by Sheriff Lee Baca that he was taking steps to tighten security after the …
Article • August 15, 2011
Maricopa County Settles Prisoner Suicide Case for $250,000 by On February 12, 2009, Maricopa County, Arizona, settled for $250,000 a lawsuit brought by survivors of a prisoner who committed suicide at the Maricopa County Jail. Francisco Oviedo was booked into the Lower Buckeye Facility of the Maricopa County Jail on …
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