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TDCJ Employee Wins $1,505,000 for Texas Prison System’s Failure to Accommodate by An El Paso jury awarded $1,505,000 to a former employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) for the prison system’s failure to accommodate her severe asthma by refusing to remove automatic air fresheners from an office …
Class Action Disability Discrimination Suit Certified Against Cook County Jail in Illinois by Class Action Disability Discrimination Suit Certified Against Cook County Jail in Illinois On March 26, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Elaine E. Bucklo certified a class action lawsuit against the Cook County Department of Corrections (CCDC) alleging …
Oregon Parolee Negligent Supervision Case Reinstated by The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment against a teenage girl who was raped by a violent parolee. In November 1997, 14-year-old Akilah Johnson was assaulted and raped by a stranger. More than four years later, on …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
$4.5 Million Settlement in New Jersey Jail Strip Search Lawsuit by $4.5 Million Settlement in New Jersey Jail Strip Search Lawsuit New Jersey’s Cumberland County has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class action strip search lawsuit. This is another huge settlement in Fourth Amendment claims of this …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Denial of Allocution Right on Supervised Release Resentencing Requires Remand by Denial of Allocution Right on Supervised Release Resentencing Requires Remand The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a federal prisoner’s sentence because an Illinois federal district court denied his right to allocution upon revocation of his supervised release …
Transgender Idaho Prisoner Receives Hormone Therapy Pending Trial by A federal judge has ordered the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) to provide hormone therapy to a prisoner with gender identity disorder pending trial. The preliminary injunction, issued July 27, 2007, was in response to a lawsuit filed by Jennifer Spencer, …
Governments, Not Prisoners, Must Pay Cost of Transporting Prisoner Witnesses by A federal court in Georgia held that costs taxed against an incarcerated litigant who lost his lawsuit could not include the cost of transporting prisoner witnesses to testify at trial. Dexter Palmer, a Georgia state prisoner, filed a civil …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Ohio DNA Specimen Law Ruled Not Retroactive by The Ohio Supreme Court held that a state law requiring convicted felons and some misdemeanants to provide DNA specimens could not be applied retroactively to offenders placed on supervised release before the law’s May 2005 effective date. On August 6, 2002, Craig …
Unemployment Compensation Denied to Guard Who Failed to Stop Prisoner Assault by Unemployment Compensation Denied to Guard Who Failed to Stop Prisoner Assault The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has held that a guard who was fired for willful misconduct for failing to report the planned assault of a prisoner was …
PLRA Requires Grievance Exhaustion for ADA/RA Claims by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has joined the Sixth Circuit in holding that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requires exhaustion of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act (RA) claims. Nevada prisoner Roy O’Guinn had a history of mental …
Ware v. CCA, TN, Settlement, solitary inmate suicide medical neglect, 2009 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0130 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0131 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0132 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0133 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0134 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0135 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0136 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0137 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0138
ACLU Request for Investigation into Violations at the Reeves County Detention Center, 2009 February 5, 2009 VIA EMAIL: inspector.general@usdoj.gov Glenn A. Fine Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General ATTN: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Complaints 950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Room 4706 Washington, DC 20530 Re: Request for Investigation …
Brief • February 4, 2009
Filed under: Restraints
Adkins v. Wolever, 6th Circuit, Opinion, Assault by Guard Spoliation, 2009 Case: 07-1421 Document: 00615385358 Filed: 02/04/2009 Page: 1 RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206 File Name: 09a0038p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT _________________ X No. 07-1421 v. > , BASIL WOLEVER, …
O'Neil v. Martin, OR, Complaint, Conditions of Confinement, Interstate Corr. Compact, 2009 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON 9 FOR THE COUNTY OF MARlON 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 …
Brief • January 30, 2009
Heston v. City of Salinas, CA, Order granting Plf Mot for Attorney Fees, police taser death cardiac arrest, 2009 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 401 Filed 01/30/2009 Page 1 of 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 …
Brief • January 30, 2009
Heston v. Salinas, CA , Order, taser death attorney fees, 2009 Case 5:05-cv-03658-JW Document 401 Filed 01/30/2009 Page 1 of 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 SAN JOSE DIVISION Betty Lou Heston, et al., …
Neal et al v. Michigan DOC, MI, Opinion, sexually hostile prison guard sexual misconduct, 2009 STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS TRACY NEAL and All Others Similarly Situated, UNPUBLISHED January 27, 2009 Plaintiffs-Appellees, v DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, KENNETH MCGINNIS, JOAN YUKINS, SALLY LANGLEY, CAROL HOWES, ROBERT SALIS, CORNELL HOWARD, MARTIN …
Brief • January 27, 2009
Filed under: Food, Jail Specific
Maynor v. Morgan County, AL, Order Denying Motion, jail food, 2009 Case 5:01-cv-00851-UWC Document 103 Filed 01/27/2009 FILED Page 1 of 2 2009 Jan-27 AM 07:26 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHEASTERN DIVISION JOHNNY MAYNOR, ANTHONY MURPHREE, …
Brief • January 26, 2009
USA v. Conahan & Ciavarella Jr, PA, Indictment, judge misconduct fraud juvenile center, 2009 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL T. CONAHAN and MARK A. CIAVARELLA, JR. , Defendants. } ) } ) ) ) } } NO. FILED SCRANTON …
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