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Article • April 15, 2009
$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, …
Article • April 15, 2009
$275,000 Settlement to Louisiana Man for Excessive Force by Police by The police department in Lousiana’s St. James Parish has agreed to pay $275,000 to Daniel Moody, who claimed that police officer Andre Cavalier used excessive force when arresting him. Cavalier had come to a residence where a group of …
$350,000 Verdict for Malicious Prosecution, False Arrest Claim by A jury in Virginia’s Richmond County Circuit Court has awarded a man $350,000 for injuries incurred during an arrest. Brian Soyars III was arrested outside a bar on January 1, 2006. Ironically, Soyars called police to report that he had witnessed …
Article • April 15, 2009
$717,000 Award to Motorist Injured in High Speed Police Chase by An Alabama jury awarded $717,217 to a motorist injured when a vehicle involved in a high speed chase with police crashed into him. On May 5, 2005, a Birmingham Police Officer began pursuit of Brandon Bearden, who was driving …
Baltimore Settles Officers’ Lawsuit in Rogue Unit Scandal by The City of Baltimore has issued an apology and agreed to a $290,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by two Baltimore police officers wrongfully accused of illegal acts related to a rogue police unit. The City’s rare public apology was a …
Colorado DOC Settles Employee Sex Discrimination Suits by The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) has agreed to reinstate one employee and pay her and another woman who were sexually discriminated against a total of $286,210 to settle their lawsuit against CDOC. The suit named CDOC, its former Executive Director, Joe …
Former New Jersey Prison Social Worker Abuse Lawsuit Reinstated by A New Jersey appeals court has reversed a lower courts dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a former prison health care worker. Angela Hoag was a licensed social worker employed by Correctional Medical Services, Inc. and worked at Southern State …
Article • April 15, 2009
Jail Term Imposed for Non-Payment of Fine Upheld in Washington by A Washington appeals court held that the imposition of jail time for the willful non-payment of fines in violation of stipulated probation terms was within the trial court’s authority. On September 1, 2005, Jimmy Young pled guilty to one …
Lab Technician Denied Qualified Immunity In Former Prisoner’s Lawsuit by In 1984, Dennis Patrick Brown was convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison. With the assistance of The Innocence Project, the DNA tests were repeated in 2003 and revealed Brown was innocent. Brown was released and the City …
Motion To Amend Untimely In Washington DC Civil Case by A U.S. district court in Washington, D.C. held the Plaintiffs in a civil case against U.S. Marshals may not amend the complaint to insert named Marshals in their individual capacities. On September 27, 2002, Paul Bame, Gregory Keltner and Ivan …
Article • April 15, 2009
New York Civil Case Settled in 1977 by Simply Clarifying Rule by A U.S. district court in New York allowed the New York City Police Department (NYCPD) to settle a civil case in 1977 by stipulating and clarifying the NYCPD’s policy on bystanders remaining in the area of an arrest …
Article • April 15, 2009
Proof of “Overt Act” not Required in Washington to Civilly Commit Incarcerated Sexually Violent Predator by David James Lewis challenged a Washington Court of Appeals decision that held the state was not required to prove a recent overt act during civil commitment proceedings. Lewis was convicted in 1992 of two …
Testimonial Hearsay Ruled Admissible in Florida Probation Revocation Hearings by The Supreme Court of Florida has held that testimonial hearsay is admissible in probation revocation hearings. In July 2003, Robert Sheldon Peters had his community control revoked, received a suspended 24 month prison sentence, and was placed on drug offender …
Article • April 15, 2009
$1 Million Award in Murder for Hire Plot by An Oregon jury has awarded a woman who sued her estranged husband for hiring someone to kill her $1,053,783. When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from her job as a nurse, she was attacked by Edward Dalton Haffey. Susan received blows to …
Article • April 15, 2009
$1.5 Million Award Against Newspaper for Defaming Indiana Police Officer by An Indiana jury has ordered The Tribune Star in Terre Haute, Indiana, to pay $1.5 million to a police officer who claimed the newspaper defamed him by stories it published. The jury’s verdict on July 28, 2004, awarded Clay …
$1.35 Million Settlement in Fatal California Police Shooting by California’s Alameda County has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit that claimed police were liable for killing a bystander to a confrontation with police for $1.35 million. Officers David Taylor and Tara Russell responded to a Dublin house on August 11, …
Article • April 15, 2009
Court Rejects Challenge to Newspaper Ban in SHU by On May 9, 2008, U.S. District Judge William Griesbach rejected a challenge by a Wisconsin prisoner to a newspaper ban in the SHU. Jose Soto was placed in an administrative confinement (SHU) at the Portage, Wisconsin prison facility for rule infractions. …
Article • April 15, 2009
D.C. Circuit Rejects Government’s Narrow Interpretation of FOIA Request by On February 7, 2003, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requester’s request for “all documents pertaining to” his or herself followed by a request for certain enumerated records must …
Article • April 15, 2009
Eighth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Due Process Challenge to Continued Confinement in Administrative Segregation by On May 12, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment for Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) officials alleged to have denied a prisoner due process by …
Eighth Circuit Upholds SORNA Against Constitutional Challenges by On July 31, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit rejected numerous constitutional challenges to the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). David Louis May was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender in violation …
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