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Article • August 15, 2013
Two Victims of Police Misconduct Settled Lawsuit for $550,000 by Two victims of false arrest and planted drugs settled their lawsuit with the County of Los Angeles for $550,000. The County of Los Angeles agreed to pay $550,000 to Tatiana Lopez and Miguel Amarillas to settle a federal lawsuit on …
Article • August 15, 2013
Los Angeles County Proposes $350,000 Settlement in Suit Arising from Vehicle Collision Caused by Deputy Sheriff by In January, 2013, the Los Angeles County Claims Board recommended payment of $350,000 to settle a lawsuit arising from a vehicle collision caused by a deputy sheriff. In December, 2010, Sheriff’s Deputy Josue …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Denial of RFRA DNA Challenge by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a lower court erroneously held that an offender’s belief that he can’t give blood was not a religious belief. After pleading guilty to federal charges in California, Gregory Zimmerman was compelled to provide …
Ninth Circuit Upholds BOP Boot Camp Termination by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) did not violate the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) or a prisoner’s constitutional rights when it terminated its boot camp program. Congress passed a law in 1990, authorizing BOP …
Ninth Circuit Vacates Plethysmograph & Medication Conditions by Ninth Circuit Vacates Plethysmograph & Medication Conditions The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a lower court should have articulated findings supporting special conditions of supervised release requiring a sex offender to submit to plethysmograph testing and medication. In September 2003, …
Article • August 15, 2013
California: City Not Liable for Police Officer’s Sexual Assaults on Minor by In January, 2013, the California Court of Appeal held that a statute providing that a “mandated reporter” reporting suspected child abuse to specified agencies cannot be constitutionally construed to require a mandated reporter to report his or her …
Article • August 15, 2013
California: Court Upholds Governor’s Authority to Contract with Out-of-State Private Prisons during Prison Overcrowding State of Emergency by The California Court of Appeal held in 2008 that Governor Schwarzenegger did not exceed his authority when, after invoking the Emergency Services Act (Gov. Code § 8550 et seq.) to issue a …
Article • August 15, 2013
California: Joint Pre-Trial Settlement Offer Valid in Wrongful Death Actions by In March, 2013, the California Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s award of expert witness fees to the prevailing party in a wrongful death suit. After Steven McDaniel was killed in a multiple vehicle accident, his wife and …
Article • August 15, 2013
Filed under: Medical, Hernias
California: Sacramento County Settles Medical Suit for $2,000 by In June 2008, Roy Long received $2,000 to settle a suit he had filed against Sacramento County and Placer County in 2002, alleging that, over a period of 15 months, jail officials in both counties had been deliberately indifferent to his …
Article • August 15, 2013
City of Los Angeles Settles Suit with ACLU over Policing Practices on Skid Row by A lawsuit over policing practices in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles was dismissed in February 2009 when the City defendants and the ACLU stipulated to the terms of a Settlement Agreement under …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay by Maya Schenwar Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay by Maya Schenwar "I took my first photograph last November. That's one picture in 17 years," Pelican Bay prisoner Jimmy Flores writes to me. He lives in the California prison's Secure Housing Units (SHUs) – solitary confinement …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Federal Court Orders California to Release 9,600 More Prisoners by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On June 20, 2013, a plainly frustrated three-judge federal court not only told California officials that they shall comply with the court's prior order to reduce the state's prison population to 137.5% of design …
No Justice: Sex Offenses, No Matter How Minor or Understandable, Can Ruin You for Life by Charlotte Silver Why do we treat the most predatory and dangerous criminals the same as those who are not? by Charlotte Silver The collection of laws and restrictions that regulate people categorized as "sex …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Filed under: News
California Jail Installs New Microgrid to Cut Energy Costs by Derek Gilna California Jail Installs New Microgrid to Cut Energy Costs by Derek Gilna The Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, California has installed an $11.7 million "microgrid" system to help power the 4,000-bed facility, which is the fifth-largest jail …
Article • August 15, 2013
9th Circuit Remands Case to District Court to Explain Its Order Reducing Prevailing Party’s Fee Request by In February, 2013, the Ninth Circuit vacated a district court’s award of costs and attorney’s fees to a prevailing § 1983 litigant because the district court failed to explain how it arrived at …
United States v. Gonzalez, CA, Indictment, Jail's Systemic Abuse of Visitors, 2013 Case 2:13-cr-00574 Document 1 Filed 08/15/13 Page 1 of 15 Page ID #:1 f'ILEU 1 2 1013AUG15 PH I: 30 3 CI.ERK u.s. DISTil le T COURT CE~TRAL DIST. OF CALIF. LOS ANCELES 4 8'/: _ _ __ …
Brief • August 14, 2013
Ramos v. City of Concord, CA, Complaint, K9 Attack, 2013 1 2 3 4 PETER W. ALFERT, SBN 83139 KAREN H. KAHN, SBN 98404 MARKT. BALLER, SBN261331 RECEIVED HINTON ALFERT &KAHN LLP 200 Pringle Ave, Suite #450 AUG 14 2013 Walnut Creek, California 94596 Telephone: (925) 279-3009 . • Facsimile: …
Brief • August 14, 2013
Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Tort Claim, Invasion of Privacy (Medical Records), 2013 1 1 l-0143\PGC130806.ejg s GREEN & SHINEE, AP .C. RICHARD A. SHINEE, BAR NO. 62767 ELIZABETH J. GIBBONS, BAR NO. 147033 Attorneys at Law 16055 Ventura Boulevard Suite 1000 Encino, …
Brief • August 9, 2013
Filed under: Overcrowding
Brown v. Plata, CA, S.Ct. Jurisdictional Statement, Prison System Overcrowding, 2013 QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the three-judge district court erred in applying this Court’s mandate in Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910 (2011), and the legal standards governing vacatur or modification of injunctive relief. 2. Whether changed circumstances require …
Brief • August 9, 2013
Gray v. County of Riverside, CA, Req for Prod of Docs, Jail Health Care, 2013 1 AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP SHAWN HANSON (SBN 109321) 2 AMIT KURLEKAR (SBN 244230) NICHOLAS GREGORY (SBN 275582) 3 KELSEY MORRIS (SBN 277859) SAURISH BHATTACHARJEE (SBN 286264) 4 580 California Street, Suite …
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