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Article • May 15, 2007
Jury Instruction And Exclusion Of Jail Standards Upheld In Failure To Protect Suit by Jury Instruction And Exclusion Of Jail Standards Upheld In Failure To Protect Suit The US Court Of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that a US District Court did not err in excluding jail standards and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Seizure Of Federal Benefits By State Unconstitutional by The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that no part of a prisoner's Social Security benefits or Veterans Administration benefits could be confiscated by the state as reimbursement for incarceration costs. After the Arkansas legislature passed the State Prison Inmate Care and Custody Reimbursement …
Sixth Circuit Vacates Dismissal of § 1983 Suit by Sixth Circuit Vacates Dismissal of § 1983 Suit The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion, has vacated and remanded a Michigan District Court's grant of summary judgment to prison officials on grounds that the prisoner-plaintiff failed to exhaust …
Article • May 15, 2007
Summary Judgment Denied in Court Access Retaliation Claim by A federal district court in Pennsylvania held that disputed issues of fact required a trial in a Pennsylvania state prisoner's lawsuit that prison officials had retaliated against him for having filed lawsuits by confiscating his legal papers, which caused him to …
Article • May 15, 2007
US Court Of Appeals Upheld Federal Statute On Contraband by The US Court Of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a District Court did not err in convicting the visitor of a prisoner at the Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution in California, for attempting to introduce contraband into the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Vermont Prisoners State Claim for Systemic Medical Neglect Law Suit by The US Court Of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a Vermont District Court's decision dismissing a class action law suit, by Vermont state prisoners' because they failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. Prisoners …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Pain, ENT, Failure to Treat
$850 Paid in Prisoner's Medical Failure to Treat Claim by Samuel L. Page, Jr., a prisoner at Washington's Airway Heights Correctional Center, suffered from enlarged parotid glands that caused him severe pain and suffering. He filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 claim alleging Eighth Amendment violations for failure to treat his …
$975,000 Paid in Michigan Guards Wrongful Discharge Suit by In January 1996, Michigan prison guard James E. Legrow saw a paroled prisoner and three guards in a bar, which violated the parolee's conditions of parole and prison rules against fraternization with prison guards. Because the guards were friends of the …
Article • May 15, 2007
$7,500 Paid to Washington DOC Employee for Negligent Investigation, Defamation, and Invasion of Privacy by $7,500 Paid to Washington DOC Employee for Negligent Investigation, Defamation, and Invasion of Privacy While employed as the Correctional Mental Health Program Manager at the Washington State Penitentiary, Daniel C. Assink was accused in an …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mail, Legal Mail
Indigent Mental Patients Court Access Rights Upheld by The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that indigent mental patients have the same right to access of courts, as do indigent prisoners filing pro se. The basis for this class action civil rights suit was the patients were allowed …
Article • May 15, 2007
Minnesota Supreme Court: Comparative Fault Analysis Inappropriate in Jail Suicide Case by Minnesota Supreme Court: Comparative Fault Analysis Inappropriate in Jail Suicide Case by Matthew T. Clarke The Minnesota Supreme Court (MSC) has held that it is inappropriate to perform a comparative fault analysis in the case of a prisoner …
Article • May 15, 2007
US Supreme Court Held Laws Targeting Religion Are Unconstitutional; Santeria a Religion by US Supreme Court Held Laws Targeting Religion Are Unconstitutional; Santeria a Religion The US Supreme Court held that no law can be enacted that denies people their right to religious freedom. The free Exercise Clause protects religious …
Punishment for Distributing Buddhist Literature States Claim by The Supreme Court held that a prisoner who alleged that he was prevented from practicing his religious faith and punished for sharing Buddhist literature with other prisoners stated a claim under 42 U.S.C. $ 1983. Fred A. Cruz, a Texas prisoner, filed …
Article • May 15, 2007
US Supreme Court Held Officials Are Qualifiedly Immune From Suit Unless They Violate Clearly Established Law by US Supreme Court Held Officials Are Qualifiedly Immune From Suit Unless They Violate Clearly Established Law The US Supreme Court held that an official's qualified immunity defense depends upon the objective reasonableness of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Reverses Del Raine v. Carlson by The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a ruling that an Illinois Federal Prisoner was entitled to relief in form of expungement of record of his confinement to segregation. The decision was made without published opinion. See: Del Raine …
Article • May 15, 2007
US Supreme Court Held That Exclusion Of Jurors Based On Race Is Unconstitutional in Civil Cases by US Supreme Court Held That Exclusion Of Jurors Based On Race Is Unconstitutional in Civil Cases The US Supreme Court held that exclusion of prospective jurors based on their race violates their equal …
Article • May 15, 2007
Excessive Violence States Eighth Amendment Claim by Prisoner filed class action suit alleging an excessive level of prisoner- prisoner and staff-prisoner violence at the Correctional Institute For Men (CIFM) in New York City. The district court found (1) that evidence of persistent overcrowding, failure to classify prisoners,. excessive reliance on …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Fourteenth Amendment Violation Resulting From Losses During Cell Search by The U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment does not protect a prisoner's possessions and that prisoners have no reasonable expectation of privacy" in their cells. A Virginia prisoner filed suit in response to a cell search by …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Standing, Visiting
NJ Court Upholds Ion Scanning of Visitors by The New Jersey court of appeals upheld the use of the Ion Scan drug detection device which is used to search selected prison visitors with no reasonable suspicion they have engaged in any wrongdoing. The ruling is unusual because a pro se …
Article • May 15, 2007
Settlements Are Public Records by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that civil rights settlements are public records and their disclosure to the public is protected by the free speech and free press clauses of the First amendment. The limited exceptions for secrecy in court records are …
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