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LAPD Cop Awarded $3.1 Million for Retaliation by On September 22, 2008, a jury awarded $3.1 million to a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer who was retaliated against for reporting that his supervising officer used racial epithets and possibly embezzled department funds. Twenty-five year LAPD veteran Robert Hill, who …
Juror Misconduct Nullifies $6.5 Million California Malpractice Verdict by The California Court of Appeals upheld the reversal of a $6.5 million wrongful conviction legal malpractice damage award due to juror misconduct. During an October 11, 1996 search of a rundown apartment building, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Rafael Perez …
Article • May 15, 2012
Federal Court Certifies Class in Lawsuit Challenging Adequacy of Safeguards Provided To Mentally Incompetent Aliens in Immigration Proceedings by In November 2011, the Honorable Dolly M. Gee, U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California, certified a class in a suit alleging a systemic failure on the part of …
California: District Court Awards Attorneys' Fees in Excess of $700,000 Despite Jury Award of Only Nominal Damages to Plaintiff in § 1983 Wrongful Death Suit by California: District Court Awards Attorneys' Fees in Excess of $700,000 Despite Jury Award of Only Nominal Damages to Plaintiff in § 1983 Wrongful Death …
Article • May 15, 2012
California: Federal Judgment in Favor of Police Bars Subsequent State-Court Wrongful Death Action by In May 2009, the California Supreme Court held that a federal-court judgment in favor of the defendants on a civil rights claim brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in which the plaintiffs sought damages for police …
Article • May 15, 2012
California: Guards and Other Prison Workers Agree to Contract Changes in Effort to Avoid Losing Jobs by In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Plata v. Brown, which mandated that California comply with a lower-court order to reduce its prison population to 137.5 percent of the design …
Article • May 15, 2012
California Immigrant Shackling Case Certified as Class Action by A California federal court granted class certification in a case challenging a blanket policy and practice of shackling civil immigration detainees who appear in immigration court. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) "have implemented …
Article • May 15, 2012
California Prisoner's First Amendment Claim Survives Motion for Summary Judgment by In September 2011, U.S. District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton issued an order tentatively permitting a California prisoner's First Amendment claim to proceed following the filing of a motion for summary judgment by the defendant prison officials in the case. …
Article • May 15, 2012
Filed under: Medical, Cancer
California Prison System Settles Untreated Cancer Case for Undisclosed Sum by A settlement was reached in a lawsuit claiming prison medical personnel failed to provide treatment for a growing cancerous lump in a prisoner’s neck. When Dean L. Brooks, a prisoner at California’s Calipatria State Prison, noticed a lump on …
Article • May 15, 2012
California: Cop Blasts 7-Year-Old Special Ed Student with Pepper Spray; San Mateo Pays $55,000 to Settle Federal Lawsuit by In December 2011, San Mateo (California) officials agreed to pay $55,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family of a 7-year-old special education student who, in June 2010, was …
Article • May 15, 2012
California Court of Appeal Grants Habeas Relief to Lifer Following Initial Board Appearance by In January 2012, in an unpublished opinion, the California Court of Appeal granted habeas relief to a life prisoner who challenged the decision of the Board of Parole Hearings to deny him parole at his initial …
District Court Awards over $300,000 in Attorney’s Fees in LAPD Excessive Force Case by In March 2011, the Honorable George H. King, U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California, awarded $299,400 in attorneys' fees and $4,317.44 in costs to a plaintiff who prevailed on her claims of excessive …
Summary Judgment Motion Filed With Amended Complaint Premature by A California federal court denied sheriff's deputies summary judgment in their action alleging discriminatory employment practices. The court agreed with Defendants that the motion was premature. In October 2006, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department (SFSD) instituted a policy requiring that only …
Article • May 15, 2012
Filed under: Medical, Gastrointestinal
Prisoner Settles Suit over Failure to Treat Crohn's Disease by Lindsay John Max, a California state prisoner, filed a civil rights action in federal court pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that various officials in the California prison system had failed to provide proper medical treatment for his Crohn's …
Brief • May 12, 2012
Santiago v Matkin, CA, Amended Complaint, excessive force off-duty police, 2012 Case 3:12-cv-01883-IEG-JMA Document 16 Filed 12/05/12 Page 1 of 14 1 2 3 4 5 EUGENE G. IREDALE, ESQ. (SBN: 75292) JULIA YOO, ESQ. (SBN: 231163) IREDALE and YOO, APC 105 West “F” Street, 4th Floor San Diego, CA …
Brief • April 17, 2012
Filed under: Prison Gangs
Young v. The People ex rel. Russo, CA, Petition for Certiorari, Oakland Gang Injunction, 2011 No. 11IN THE Supreme Court of the United States YANCIE YOUNG, et al., Petitioners, v. THE PEOPLE ex rel. JOHN A. RUSSO, as City Attorney, etc., Respondent. ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Court Grants Preliminary Injunction to PLN in Sacramento County Jail Censorship Suit by On March 8, 2012, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez entered a preliminary injunction against the County of Sacramento, California in a lawsuit that alleges unconstitutional censorship of publications sent to prisoners at the county’s jail. …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Filed under: Military, Veterans
Incarcerated Veterans Help Other Incarcerated Vets Obtain Disability Benefits by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim Ed Munis and Michael “Doc” Piper, two Vietnam vets incarcerated at the Correctional Training Facility (CTF) in Soledad, California, have quietly been working over the past six years to ensure that other imprisoned veterans, now …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
California: State Settles Prisoner’s Lawsuit for $10,000, then Delays Payment by In June 2010, Cion Adonis Peralta signed a Full Release of All Claims in a federal lawsuit he filed in 2005, alleging that officials at CSP-Lancaster had violated his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. In exchange for …
Thousands Referred but Very Few Qualify for Commitment as Sexually Violent Predators in California by Responding to a legislative request, California’s Bureau of State Audits reviewed the process used by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to refer sex offenders to the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and, …
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