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Article • May 15, 2009
Plaintiffs Prevail in Objections to Taxed Bill of Costs by Following their arrest, conviction and imprisonment in 2002, Plaintiffs Kimberly Sykes and Tevya Urquhart, had the convictions overturned on appeal in 2004. Each woman then filed suit against various police officers in 2005 pursuant to 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983 alleging …
Prison Guard wins $18,000 in Discrimination Suit Against DOC by An African-American prison guard at Wisconsin's Jackson Correctional Facility filed suit against the DOC and two prison officials under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The plaintiff, Sergeant Davis, had recently been demoted after a hearing regarding …
Article • May 15, 2009
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14th Amendment Does not Limit Disenfranchisement to Only Felonies by California’s First District Court of Appeals has denied a petition that sought a mandate stating disenfranchisement is limited to only felonies at common law. The petition was based on section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, …
Article • May 15, 2009
A Final Frontier in Prisoner Litigation: Does Bivens Extend to Employees of Private Prisons Who Violate the Constitution? by Matthew Tikonoff A Final Frontier in Prisoner Litigation Does Bivens Extend to Employees of Private Prisons Who Violate the Constitution? By: Matthew W. Tikonoff Suffolk University Law Review - Volume 40, …
Article • May 15, 2009
Writ of Mandate Granted in Child Custody Dispute by In October 2007, Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA), in California, took custody of a woman's two-year-old son following her incarceration for allegedly having sex with a minor. In January 2008, the Court ordered the SSA to prepare a case plan …
Youth Club Volunteer Wins $269,000 Judgment Against Seattle Police Officer; Court Orders $147,164 in Attorney’s Fees by In May 2008, Romelle Bradford, a youth club volunteer in Seattle, Washington, was awarded $269,000 by a federal jury for civil rights violations perpetrated by Seattle Police officer Jacob Briskey. Bradford, the 2003 …
$1.25 Million Awarded to Cop for Sex Discrimination, Retaliation by On April 22, 2008, the Second Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal upheld a $1.25 million judgment for a City of Whittier police officer on retaliation and sex discrimination claims. Gina Zanone sued the City of Whittier for …
$15,000,000 Verdict for LA Police Officers Upheld by On July 14, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a $15,000,000 verdict for three LA police officers who suffered civil rights violations related to an improper and negligent investigation into the officers’ alleged illegal conduct. Paul Harper, …
Article • May 15, 2009
$25,000,000 Consent Judgment Entered Against Murderer by Caitlan Atwater, the daughter of a woman murdered by her husband, has obtained a $25,000,000 consent judgment. Atwater sued Michael Peterson after Kathleen Peterson, Atwater’s daughter from another marriage, was beaten to death by Peterson. The parties agreed to a consent judgment of …
$45,000 Awarded to Muslim Woman Forced to Remove Headscarf at California Jail by On October 8, 2008, the County of San Bernadino and Sheriff Gary Penrod agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) and the First Amendment. Jameelah …
$300,000 for Family of Prisoner who Bled to Death Waiting on Ambulance by The County of San Bernardino has settled a lawsuit brought by the estate of a woman who bled to death due to an undiagnosed pregnancy condition while waiting on an ambulance. Luan Morales started hemorrhaging while at …
$500,000 Awarded to Family of Parolee Mistakenly Shot and Killed by Live Ammunition by On November 9, 2004, the City of Redondo Beach was ordered to pay $500,000 to the family of a California parolee who was killed by police after being mistakenly shot by live ammunition instead of “bean …
Brief • May 13, 2009
Prison Legal News v. PA DOC, PA Complaint, public records, 2009
Article • April 15, 2009
Jail Strip-Search Cases: Patterns and Participants by Margo Schlanger Cited: 71 Law & Contemp. Probs. 65 [*pg 65] JAIL STRIP-SEARCH CASES: PATTERNS AND PARTICIPANTS By Margo Schlanger* I. INTRODUCTION II. JAIL STRIP-SEARCH LITIGATION: THE MIAMI CASE III. JAIL STRIP-SEARCH LITIGATION MORE GENERALLY A. Case Category Features B. Participants IV. CONCLUSION …
BEYOND THE HERO JUDGE: INSTITUTIONAL REFORM LITIGATION AS LITIGATION by Margo Schlanger 97 Mich. L. Rev. 1994 (May 1999) Margo Schlanger* Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons. By Malcolm M. Feeley(1) and Edward L. Rubin.(2) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xv, …
1980s Settlement Agreement Heads to Improved Conditions in Nevada Prisons by The state of Nevada has agreed to a comprehensive settlement agreement that will improve conditions at all Nevada prisons. Billy Shapley and other Nevada state prisoners filed a class action suit against Nevada prison officials alleging that their First, …
Article • April 15, 2009
Tenth Circuit Explains Sandin Standard to Determine Liberty Interests by In reversing a Kansas federal district court’s grant of summary judgment to prison officials, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has explained how the legal landscape changed by the ruling in Sandin v. Conner, 115 S. Ct. 2293 (1995). In …
Article • April 15, 2009
Tenth Circuit Finds Colorado Administrative Segregation Placement Does Not Implicate Liberty Interest by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner’s administrative confinement conditions did not violate his due process rights because he failed to prove that he had a liberty interest in avoiding such placement. Before …
Washington DOC Pays $2.2 Million to Settle Inadequate Supervision Claim Resulting in Death by The Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) agreed to pay $2.2 million to the family of a man who was brutally beaten by a probationer. The lawsuit claimed WDOC was liable for wrongful death because it …
Article • April 15, 2009
County Pays $500,000 for Negligent Supervision of Probationer by Washington’s Whatcom County has settled a claim that it was negligent in failing to monitor the actions of a probationer for $500,000. The lawsuit was brought by the parents of Michael C. Busby, Jr., 8, who was killed by the probationer. …
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