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Article • May 15, 2007
WA State Owes No Duty to Ensure That Foster Kids Don't Harm the General Public by Aba Sheikh sustained injuries when he was beaten by four teenagers in a Seattle parking lot in March of 1999. The teenagers were in state-imposed foster care at the time. Sheikh obtained a judgment …
Article • May 15, 2007
L.A. County Probation Department Employee Awarded $95,000 for Discriminatory Forced Retirement by by John E. Dannenberg A 39-year veteran employee of the County of Los Angeles' (L.A.) Probation Department, in failing health, was constructively forced to retire by a job transfer that he alleged was intended to harass him because …
Massachusetts Prisoners' Chemical Toilet Claim Proceed to Trial for Damages by A Massachusetts federal district court has granted in part and denied in part prison officials' motion for summary judgment in a class action by prisoners formerly incarcerated at the Southeast Correctional Center (SCC). PLN previously reported proceedings in this …
Article • May 15, 2007
South Dakota Juvenile Detention Center's Blanket Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional by A South Dakota federal district court has held that the strip-searching of juveniles held for minor offenses violates the Fourth Amendment and denied the defendants qualified immunity. This class action suit was brought to challenge institution policies at South …
Rules Modeled on Ten Commandments Violate Establishment Clause; Sheriff Denied Qualified Immunity by A federal court in Arkansas held that jail rules modeled after the Ten Commandments violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. It also held that jail officials were not entitled to qualified immunity. Andy Lee was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Michigan Doctor's Termination of Prisoner's Suicide Watch Upheld by On March 2, 1995, Billy Montgomery was on suicide watch in a Michigan prison. He was interviewed by Norris McCrary, a prison psychologist, who, without reviewing his file, found that Montgomery no longer needed to be on suicide watch. McCrary had …
Iowa Supreme Court Holds Prison Sex Offender Screening Process Constitutional by On October 22, 2004 the Iowa Supreme Court ruled on a prisoner's claim that a prison rule concerning sexually violent prisoners enacted after his imprisonment effectively removed him from consideration for early parole. The court held that although the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Rooker-Feldman Doctrine Bars Federal Review of Michigan Indigent Filing Fees Statute As Applied by Matthew Clarke Rooker-Feldman Doctrine Bars Federal Review of Michigan Indigent Filing Fees Statute As Applied by Matthew T. Clarke On August 31, 2004 the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an indigent Michigan state prisoner …
PLRA Exhaustion-of-Remedies Requirement Applies to Private Prison by by Matthew T. Clarke On September 8, 2004 the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that prisoners incarcerated in a private prison must first exhaust the prison's administrative remedies before bringing suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging unconstitutional prison conditions. Louis …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Appeals Court Upholds Prisoner's Disciplinary for 9-11 Comment by On June 17, 2004, a New York court of appeals upheld disciplinary action taken against a state prisoner for a comment he allegedly made while watching TV coverage of the 9-11 attacks. Particio Linares, a New York state prisoner, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Eighth Circuit Upholds Judgment Against CMS For Delayed Dental Care by In an unpublished opinion filed on August 7, 2001, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judgment against Correctional Medical Services (CMS) for failing to provide adequate dental care to a Missouri prisoner. While imprisoned in the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Colorado: City Pays $240,000 to Victims of Serial Rapist by On January 30, 2006, the city of Aurora, Colorado, announced it would pay $240,000 to four women raped by a man they claimed should have been arrested months earlier. In November 2004, Brent J. Brents admitted to molesting an 8 …
Article • May 15, 2007
CO Prisoners Need Not Obtain Post-Conviction Relief Before Filing Malpractice Suit Against Trial Lawyers by Geoffrey Rantz was convicted in a Colorado court of sexually assaulting two boys and sentenced to sixty-years in prison. While his case was on appeal, Rantz filed a malpractice suit against his trial lawyers. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
$100,000 Settlement Recommended For County's Contract Breach by On December 14, 2005, the Los Angeles County Claims Board recommended paying $100,000 to a drug testing firm to settle its breach of contract suit against the county. In September 1995 Los Angeles County entered a 5-year contract with PharmChem to provide …
Article • May 15, 2007
$201,000 Settlement in Death of California Prisoner with Hepatitis C by In June 2002, the California Department of Corrections (CDOC) settled for $201,000 a wrongful death suit alleging denial of appropriate medical care for hepatitis C. The lawsuit, brought by the family of Rosemary Willeby, claimed her October 1999 death …
Former PHS Employee Awarded $200,000 for Retaliation, Age Discrimination by On August 16, 2001, a Maine jury awarded $200,000 to a registered nurse who claimed she was fired by Prison Health Services (PHS) for voicing concerns about the quality of care being provided to juvenile prisoners and because of her …
Article • May 15, 2007
Massachusetts: City Potentially Liable For Officer's Negligence by In this case involving a university police officer who was injured by an escaped prisoner, the Superior Court of Massachusetts denied summary judgment to the City of Worcester. The Court held that a jury could find the City's officer was grossly negligent …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
WA Early Release Credits No Substitute for Good Time Lost for Disciplinary Reasons by WA Early Release Credits No Substitute for Good Time Lost for Disciplinary Reasons The Washington State Court of Appeals for Division 1 has denied a prisoner's Personal Restraint Petition (PRP), claiming that the state Department of …
Article • May 15, 2007
California: "Mailbox Rule" Extended to Civil Complaints Against Public Entity by John E Dannenberg California: "Mailbox Rule" Extended to Civil Complaints Against Public Entity By John E. Dannenberg The Third District California Court of Appeal held that the "mailbox rule" [prisoner legal mail delivered to prison authorities for mailing to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Incarceration Term alone Insufficient to Terminate Florida Prisoner's Parental Rights by Incarceration Term alone Insufficient to Terminate Florida Prisoner's Parental Rights The Florida Supreme Court has held that a trial court, when assessing a petition to terminate a prisoner's parental rights, must apply a forward-looking view when determining if the …
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