Burritt v. Polk County, WI, Plf Mot for Leave to Supp Mot to Amend, Child False Accusation of Sexual Assualt, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN PAUL BURRITT, Plaintiff, vs. LISA DITLEFSEN, and POLK COUNTY, Defendants. 12-cv-909-wmc MOTION OF PLAINTIFF PAUL BURRITT FOR LEAVE TO …
Burritt v. Polk County, WI, Plf Atty Declaration, Child False Accusation of Sex Assualt, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN PAUL BURRITT, Plaintiff, vs. LISA DITLEFSEN, and POLK COUNTY, Defendants. 12-cv-909-wmc MOTION OF PLAINTIFF PAUL BURRITT FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT MOTION TO ALTER AND AMEND …
Hardy v. City of Milwaukee, WI, Amended Complaint, Public Strip Search, 2014 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN LEO HARDY, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE, OFFICER MICHAEL GASSER, OFFICER KEITH GARLAND, JR., OFFICER PATRICK COE, OFFICER MICHAEL VALUCH JR., OFFICER ROLANDO HERNANDEZ, and unknown Milwaukee Police …
Seventh Circuit: Lifetime Supervision in Pornography Case Set Aside by Derek Gilna The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a “supervision for life” provision imposed by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin when defendant Nicolai D. Quinn was sentenced to 97 months imprisonment for possession …
Seventh Circuit Retires “De Minimis” Standard for Use of Physical Force by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court’s application of a “de minimis harm” standard in dismissing a Wisconsin detainee’s claim that he was sexually groped. In April 2008, James Washington, Jr. was a pretrial …
Matz v. Vandenbrook, WI, SJ Order, Failure to Treat Borderline Personality Prisoner in Segregation, 2013 Case: 3:10-cv-00668-bbc Document #: 114 Filed: 08/19/13 Page 1 of 25 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN - - - - - - - - - - - - …
Prisoner Denied Pornography in a Wisconsin Prison by A Wisconsin appellate court held that a prisoner’s lawsuit against guards for denying him pornography was properly dismissed. The Court of Appeals, District IV, affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Green Bay Correctional Institution prisoner Charles Downing on January 3, …
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Wisconsin Retaliation Suit by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a Wisconsin federal district court improperly dismissed a prisoner’s civil rights claim of retaliation for filing grievances because a prison disciplinary board found the prisoner was lying when filing his grievances. Wisconsin …
Seventh Circuit: Summary Judgment Partially Reversed in Jail Death Caused by Medication Withdrawal by On May 25, 2012, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment to two defendants in a case involving a jail detainee who died after his prescribed medication was abruptly discontinued. Wisconsin's …
$737,500 Settlement after Seventh Circuit Finds No Qualified Immunity for Prisoner's Suicide by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court's partial denial of qualified immunity in a case involving the suicide of a Wisconsin prisoner. "Jessie Miller led a tragically short and troubled life. Exposed to …
Re-incarceration Not Grounds to Dismiss Wisconsin Civil Commitment Petition by On June 29, 2012, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that Wisconsin Statutes chapter 980 (2005-06), the state's sex offender civil commitment law, does not require that a pending commitment petition be dismissed when the person subject to civil commitment is …
Jackson v. Meisner, WI, Settlement, ICE Withholding of Mail, 2013 Co y STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE J.n. VAN HOLLEN 17 W. Main Street P.O. Box 7857 Madison, WI 53707·7857 www.doj .state.wLus ATTORNEV GENERAL Kevin M. St. John Deputy Attorney Gene ral Me lissa R. SchaJltr Assistant Attorney Genera …
Jackson v. Meisner, WI, AAG Letter to Judge, Columbia CI error rejecting inmate complaint, 2013 • STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE J.B. VAN HOLLEN ATIORNEY GENERAL 17 W. Main Street P.O. Box 7857 Madison, W1 53707-7857 www.doj.state.wi.us Kevin M. St. John Deputy Attorney General Rebecca A. Paulson Assistant Attorney …
Prison Legal News v. Kenosha County 2013 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE DIVISION PRISON LEGAL NEWS, a project of the HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) DAVID G. BETH, individually and in ) his official …
Seventh Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment for Nutriloaf Diet by Recognizing that “anal fissures” are “no fun at all,” the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on March 27, 2012 that Wisconsin jail officials were not entitled to summary judgment for imposing an exclusive diet of Nutriloaf on a prisoner. Milwaukee …
No Collateral-Order Review of Refusal to Quash; Seventh Circuit Would Affirm on Merits by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a collateral-order appeal of two non-party state agencies that unsuccessfully moved to quash subpoenas. Even if it had appellate jurisdiction, however, the court …
Wisconsin Appeals Court Orders Appointment of Examiner in Commitment Case by Derek Gilna Prisoner Dennis Thiel had appealed the denial of his petition for supervised release under Wisconsin Statute Chapter 980 (2003-04) (the Act), wherein the court had previously ordered that an examiner be appointed to take another look at …
No Free Speech Protection for Prisoners Who Copy Excerpts from Books by Christopher Zoukis Prisoners who copy "arguably inflammatory” or “incendiary” passages from the books they check out from a prison library or are allowed to purchase are not entitled to rely on the First Amendment to protect them from …
7th Circuit: Minimal Use of Force Not an Eighth Amendment Violation by Wisconsin prisoner Juan Guitron alleged that a prison guard bent and injured his wrist. Following a preliminary screening required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, the district court dismissed the complaint and the 7th Circuit affirmed. While prison guards …
Wisconsin Appeals Court Orders Photos Delivered to Prisoner by Michael Rigby On July 22, 2010, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District IV, held that three prison employees – sued over their involvement in withholding pictures deemed pornographic by Department of Corrections policy – were entitled to qualified immunity. The court …
