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$55,503 Settlement for Barefoot California Prisoner by On December 27, 1999, San Francisco County, California, settled for $55,503 a prisoner's federal lawsuit that alleged he was denied footwear for three months while in the county jail and that he was treated with deliberate indifference by jail medical personnel after his …
No Qualified Immunity For Prison Officials In Paralyzed Prisoner's Suit by The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey held that prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity in a paralyzed prisoner's civil rights suit and that fact issues precluded summary judgment. Timothy Ryan was arrested for …
New York Prisoner Awarded $295,000 For Knee, Ankle Injury by On July 29, 1999, a court of claims in White Plains, New York, awarded $295,000 to a prisoner who suffered knee and ankle injuries when a stack of cartons containing frozen meat fell on her. New York state prisoner Karen …
Article • May 15, 2007
Deliberate Indifference to Serious Medical Needs Actionable by J. W. Gamble, a Texas state prisoner, filed suit in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas alleging that prison officials and prison medical personnel violated his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Awarded $125,000 for Slip and Fall Injury by In February 1998, a New York City prisoner was awarded $125,000 for injuries sustained when she slipped while descending wet stairs at the City's jail. The 31-year-old plaintiff claimed in her lawsuit, filed in Bronx County, that the City …
Article • May 15, 2007
Pennsylvania Prisoner Awarded $5,000 for Crushed Finger by In January 1998, a Pennsylvania prisoner was awarded $5,000 in arbitration against the City of Philadelphia. The plaintiff alleged the bone in his left finger was crushed in February 1996 when the bed in his cell tipped over. The plaintiff sued in …
Article • May 15, 2007
BOP Denial of Knee Surgery Upheld by The plaintiff alleged that he was denied surgery to repair a painful knee condition because the original injury antedated his incarceration. The surgery was allegedly performed a week after he filed suit; the plaintiff denied that he had had the surgery and said …
Article • May 15, 2007
WA City Liable for Jail Doctor's Negligence by IN 1975, Michael Shea, a prisoner in the Spokane County Jail in Spokane, Washington repeatedly complained of severe back pain. Even though he was in jail for drunk driving after being in an auto accident, the jail physician only treated Shea for …
Delay of Treatment for Spinal Injury Suit Dismissed by The plaintiff alleged that his requests for medical treatment for two and a half months (after which he was found to have a severely ruptured disk) constituted deliberate indifference. The plaintiff's claims against the Sheriff is dismissed for lack of any …
Article • May 15, 2007
Slip and Fall Injury Claim Dismissed by The plaintiff slipped and fell while trying to repair a roof leak. He complained that some aspects of his treatment were delayed and he never got a barium study and a sigmoidoscopy. This complaint amounted only to a difference of opinion about treatment …
Delay in Treating Spinal Injury Survives Summary Judgment by The plaintiff injured himself in a fall, sustaining a spinal cord injury resulting in incontinence and other consequences. At 1221-22: "A delay in providing medical treatment is not actionable unless it is occasioned by 'deliberate indifference which results in substantial harm.' …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Skeletal Injury
Pennsylvania Jail Suit for Failure to Treat Broken Jaw Dismissed by The plaintiff was punched in the jaw by another prisoner and was given pain medication and cotton to bite on by medical staff. He went back five of the next six days complaining of continued severe pain, numbness, and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Wackenhut is a State Actor for Section 1983 Liability by Wackenhut is a State Actor for Section 1983 Liability The Wackenhut Corporation and its employees are "state actors" under § 1983 with respect to their operation of a jail under contract with the state. The plaintiff's allegation that a nurse …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jail Delay in Treating Injured Hand Okay by The pro se plaintiff alleged that he was in pain from an unspecified injury to his hand. His hand was x-rayed and he was told it was "just swollen." He continued to complain of pain, a specialty consult was ordered, the order …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Awarded $279,583 For Work-Related Arm Fracture by In June 1998, a New York court of claims awarded $279,583 to a prisoner who sustained a lower arm fracture after falling into an excavated area at a state prison. The prisoner argued that prison officials should have foreseen the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Quadriplegic Texas Prisoner Injured In Police Van Settles For $750,000 by On May 31, 1999, a quadriplegic woman whose leg was broken during transport in a Houston Police Department van settled her lawsuit against the city for $750,000. Plaintiff Sharon Lee, 61 at the time of the settlement, was rendered …
New York Prisoner Awarded $350,000 For Work-Related Fractures by In February 1998, a New York court of claims awarded $350,000 to a prisoner who suffered heel and elbow fractures when he fell from the roof of a state prison. The award was reduced to $140,000, however, after the judge determined …
New York City Settles Guards' Assault On Prisoner For $9,900 by In 2004 the City of New York paid $9,900 to settle a prisoner's federal lawsuit that alleged guards at Bikers Island beat him and then wrote false disciplinary reports against him. On May 27, 2003, plaintiff Anthony Colon was …
Article • May 15, 2007
States Duty To Protect Prisoners Is Limited To Reasonably Foreseeable Risks by Suffering from seizures, former New York State prisoner Wesley Levin appealed a Court of Claims' dismissal for damages because of injuries sustained after falling twice from his top bunk. The second fall occurred three days after Doctor Francois …
Administrative Exhaustion in Medical Neglect Claims Discussed by The plaintiff complained of medical neglect during a period in which he was transferred among facilities; he filed two grievances and exhausted them. Defendants argued that he did not sufficiently exhaust all the occurrences at all the prisons. The court addresses a …
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