$75,000 Award in Excessive Force by Minneapolis Police During Arrest by A Minneapolis, Minnesota state jury has awarded a man $75,000 for excessive force being used against him during an arrest. Worthington police officer Randy Liepold responded to a domestic dispute on November 7, 2005. Upon arriving at the residence, …
Minnesota Sex Offenders’ Requisite Disclosure in Treatment Can Violate Fifth Amendment by Minnesota Sex Offenders’ Requisite Disclosure in Treatment Can Violate Fifth Amendment Minnesota state prisoners Frank Johnson and John Henderson individually petitioned for writs of habeas corpus in 2005 after 45 days were added to their sentences for noncompliance …
Suit Filed Over Minnesota Jail’s Secret Recording of Privileged Phone Calls by Matthew Clarke Suit Filed Over Minnesota Jail’s Secret Recording of Privileged Phone Calls by Matt Clarke On October 15, 2008, a Minneapolis law firm filed a civil rights suit in federal district court alleging that attorney-client phone calls …
Gilman v. Ramsey County, MN, Motion, Privacy Public Records Disclosure, 2009 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA THIRD DIVISION __________________________________________________________________ Elizabeth Raasch-Gilman, Case No. 09 CV 594 ADM/JJG Plaintiff, PLAINTIFF’S MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO REMAND FOR LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER Ramsey County, JURISDICTION, TO CERTIFY …
Beating Of Ex Federal Prisoner And Snitch Settles For $300,000 by Ex federal prisoner Mark Lang petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in 1993 and filed subsequent tort action in 1995 for redress after prison officials put him in a cell with a psychiatric patient who severely beat him. …
$500,000 Settlement After BOP Failed To Diagnose Employee's Tumor by Minnesota Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee Ruth Sonnek brought a federal tort action against the United States in 2000 after BOP medical examiners failed to diagnose and treat her for a tumor. Their pre employment x ray clearly showed that …
Ex-Con Exposed – Had Posed as a Lawyer by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A former prisoner who posed as an attorney in at least 16 cases in ten federal courts since 2004 has admitted to a federal judge that he is not a lawyer and didn’t graduate from …
Civil Commitment Provisions of Adam Walsh Act Held Unconstitutional by Civil Commitment Provisions of Adam Walsh Act Held Unconstitutional Congress exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause of the U.S. Constitution in enacting the civil commitment provisions of the Adam Walsh Act, a Minnesota U.S. …
Minnesota Sheriff Profited from Jail Breakfast Scam by Minnesota Sheriff Profited from Jail Breakfast Scam In October 2007, Hubbard County, Minnesota officials announced they had reached a settlement with Sheriff Gary Mills. For eight years, Mills had practiced an archaic tradition of providing breakfast for the county jail’s prisoners and …
Minnesota Commissioner Says "Mug Shots" Are Public Records by Upon request of the attorney for Dakota County, Minnesota, the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Administration IPAD (Commissioner) opined as to whether "mug shots" (jail booking photos) are public records for disclosure purposes. In her opinion, the Commissioner considered Minn. …
ADA Withstands 11th Amendment Challenge by The Americans with Disabilities Act does not violate the Eleventh Amendment. Unlike the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, it is "plainly adapted" as a remedial measure even if it prohibits conduct that may or may not be unconstitutional. Its remedies are not so sweeping that …
Failure to Investigate Police Misconduct Establishes Municipal Liability by At 1205: This Court has held municipalities liable under Monell when the plaintiffs have produced evidence of prior complaints sufficient to demonstrate that the municipalities and their officials ignored police misconduct.... ... Evidence that a police department has failed to investigate …
Federal Prisoner’s 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Action for Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Denied by Michael J. Scott, a federal prisoner, was serving time for drug convictions arising in 1998. He encouraged a third person to cooperate with the government in another case and filed a motion for a sentence reduction …
150 Days in Segregation for Civil Detainee Upheld by Eighth Circuit by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a civil detainee’s placement in isolation for 150 days was not a constitutional violation, considering the specific facts in this case. The ruling affirms a Minnesota federal district court’s …
$300,000 Settlement in Murder of College Student by Released Sexual Predator by The State of Minnesota has paid $300,000 to the family of a University of North Dakota student who was kidnapped, raped and killed by a recently-released sexual predator. The payment was offered as a pre-litigation settlement before a …
No Liability for Prison Killing by Mass Murderer by The decedent was brutally murdered by another prisoner who had previously murdered his two sons, his girlfriend, and a prostitute, who had a non-trivial disciplinary record, and who had written a letter to the warden from segregation describing himself as homicidal …
Federal Escape Statute of Limitations Not Triggered Until Return to Custody by Naturalized U.S. citizen and federal prisoner Guillermo Gonzalez appealed his 2006 escape conviction, arguing that the district court failed to instruct the jury on the statute of limitations for escape. His conviction was affirmed. While serving an eight …
$365,000 Awarded After Excessive Force by Minnesota Troopers by Sartell, Minnesota resident Richard Town brought a § 1983 action against the City of Waite Park after he was subjected to excessive force by two state troopers in 2005, resulting in a fractured rib and collapsed lung. Town was stopped for …
Minnesota Police Brutality Suit Settles for $110,000 by Hennepin County (Minnesota) jail detainee Philander Jenkins, accused of two murders, filed a civil rights action in 2005 alleging that Minneapolis policeman Jeff Jindra had assaulted him while handcuffed. The City Council reluctantly settled for $110,000. During a 2003 home search, Jenkins …
$700,000 Settlement in Minnesota Teen’s Wrongful Death Caused by Jail’s Indifference to Head Infection by Shortly after his arrest and booking into Minnesota’s Mille Lacs County Jail, 18-year-old Brandon Brown began Complaining of excruciating head pain. The result of jail personnel’s failure to treat him caused his death and a …
