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, the defendants challenged the jurys punitive damages award as excessive relative to the small compensatory award, here a 29-1 ratio. The court agreed, and fixed the punitive damages at three times the compensatory ...
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
allegations of mismanagement raised in prisoner lawsuits [see: PLN, Mar. 2005, p.1, California Corrections System Officially Declared `Dysfunctional Redemption Doubtful]. The BIR monitors prison investigations ...
constitutional deprivations at disciplinary hearings while section 1983 does. Washington state prisoners should also be aware that there is a three year statute of limitations as of July 1, 1993, affecting ...
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
is perhaps more important is that Wilson announced (1) that any deprivation (including a single condition of confinement) meets that test if it denies `the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities ...
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
. The factors a court must consider are: (1 ) whether the prisoner's presence will substantially further the resolution of the case, (2) the security risks presented by the prisoner's transportation ...
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
GRAPO Prisoner Dies by In Issue #1 of PLN we reported the hunger strike by GRAPO (Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups, First of October) in Spain who seek to end the governments policy of placing ...
Article • February 15, 1998 • from PLN February, 1998
of booklets and reports which detail the negative health effects of smoking, exposure to second hand smoke, etc. Contact: ALA, 1740 Broadway, New York, NY 10019-4374. 1-800- Lung-USA. Legal Cases on Smoking ...
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
should be considered when contemplating an attorney fees award against a civil rights plaintiff representing himself: "(1) the importance of ensuring access to the courts for plaintiffs with civil rights ...
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
by county taxpayers as the county's insurance policy has a $1 million deductible. The Maricopa County jail is operated by Joe Arpaio, self described as "America's toughest sheriff." While Arpaio's media ...
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Jail. The actions were consolidated and dismissed pursuant to §§ 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii) and 1915A(b)(1) for failure to state a claim. Subsequently, Powells filed two more complaints, which were dismissed ...
from the porch of his home, which was widely reported in local media. Kuhnel was paid a total of $110,575 for the 2 1/2 years he was not working as the state appealed his suspension. In 1988 the New ...
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
U.S. 1, 112 S.Ct. 995 (1992). Put another way, "[ d]e minimis refers to trifling or very small matters," and "[t]he Eighth Amendment surely does not afford guards in a detention center ...
recovered money. The government raised two defenses: (1) the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because the action pitted the executive branch of the government against itself and (2) sovereign ...
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
out of his medication. The prison had been providing Scearce's medication after his arrest but ran out on April 1, 1998, according to court documents. Five days later Scearce suffered a stroke ...
. App. Div. 1. 2000). The statute applies only to state court judgments. Federal judgments under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 are protected from such attachment by the U.S. Constitutions Supremacy Clause ...
. Accordingly, the court dismissed the case as frivolous, without serving the defendants, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1997(e)(c)(1). It further denied his motion to amend because it found the original pro per ...
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
shipping). Non-prisoners add $3. Or order by phone: 1-888-315-0582. ...
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
rule did not divest the court of jurisdiction. The court held that basing jurisdiction on a local court rule "conflict[s] with the mandate of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1 to provide a just ...
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
that the relevant statutory language in 42 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1) "if a prisoner ... files an appeal..." was unambiguous in referring to each separate notice of appeal. The court distinguished Williamson v. Mark ...
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
., 198 Ariz. 467, 11 P.3d 1006 (2000), the court held that § 231031(A), which took effect on December 1, 1997, could not be applied retroactively to suspend Mejia's 1996 benefits because his right ...
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