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D.C. Employee Fired for Delivering Unopened Letter Settles for $30,000 by On March 26, 2004, The District of Columbia paid $30,000 to settle with a Department of Corrections employee who was fired for attempting to have an unopened letter delivered to a prisoner. The suit, filed in the U.S. District …
Article • March 15, 2011
D.C. Guard Settles Slip and Fall Suit for $50,000 by On June 21, 2001, the District of Columbia paid $50,000 to settle with a guard who had sued the District in D.C. Superior Court for negligence after she slipped and fell on a wet floor. According to the complaint, the …
Article • March 15, 2011
D.C. Pays $5,000 Settlement in Stabbed Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Suit by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $5,000 to settle the negligence suit of prisoner Antonio Avery for injuries resulting from a stabbing by other prisoners. While at D.C.’s Central Facility in Lorton, Virginia on June 11, 1999, Avery …
Article • March 15, 2011
D.C. Pays $18,000 Settlement to Prisoner Injured in Transport Vehicle by On March 25, 1998, the District of Columbia paid $18,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Plaintiff Roland Robinson, who suffered unspecified injuries when the prison transport vehicle he was riding in flipped over while en route to the …
Article • March 15, 2011
D.C. Settles Prisoner’s Stabbing/Beating Suit for $12,500 by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $12,5000 to settle the negligence suit of prisoner David Lee for injuries incurred from being stabbed and beaten by two other prisoners. While at the D.C. Jail on July 13, 2002, Lee was stabbed by a …
D.C. Settles Unreasonable Strip Search, Sexual Battery Allegations for $15,750 by On May 11, 2006, the District of Columbia paid $15,750 to settle a lawsuit filed by two prisoners who claimed they were subjected to unreasonable strip searches and sexual battery by guards at the Central Facility in Lorton, Virginia. …
Article • March 15, 2011
Filed under: Attorneys, Attorney Client
Dismissal of Prosecution is only remedy for Taking of Attorney-Client Materials by State by The Court of Appeals for the State of Washington, Division III, has affirmed the dismissal of a child molestation prosecution after detectives unlawfully took attorney-client privileged materials during a search. James Perrow was charged with child …
Drill Bit Left in Jaw Nets D.C. Prisoner $15,000 Settlement by On March 22, 2005, a prisoner of the District of Columbia and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) settled for $15,000 his suit alleging medical negligence for a botched dental procedure. James Moore was admitted to a D.C. hospital on …
Eighth Circuit Dismisses Appeal Where Parties Attempted to Manufacture Jurisdiction by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has rejected an attempt by the parties in a suit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to manufacture appellate jurisdiction for an interlocutory appeal from a district court’s grant of …
Article • March 15, 2011
Elderly Home Detention Program Eligibility Determined Based on Sentence Imposed Without Good Time by In determining eligibility for the Elderly Offender Home Detention Pilot Program (EOHDPP), the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) may not consider a prisoner’s earned good time in calculating whether a prison has served enough time to enter …
Article • March 15, 2011
Expert Report Not Required for Primary Care Physician to Testify by A physician who treated a patient plaintiff may testify concerning his consultation or treatment of a patient without providing an expert report, U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor recently decided. Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26., Judge Ponsor concluded that …
Georgia Sex Offender Registration Act Unconstitutionally Vague As Applied to Homeless Offenders Without a Route or Street Address by Georgia’s sex offender registration law is unconstitutionally vague as applied to homeless sex offenders, the Supreme Court of Georgia decided October 27, 2008. William Santos was charged with violating Georgia’s sex …
Article • March 15, 2011
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Suit against BOP after BOP Started Hormone Therapy for Prisoner with Gender Identity Disorder by On June 7, 2010, U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro denied a motion to dismiss filed by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in a suit by a prisoner suffering from Gender Identity …
Article • March 15, 2011
Motion to Dismiss in Eighth Amendment Suit Denied in Part by U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner has granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss filed by four Bureau of Prisons (BOP) defendants accused of Eighth Amendment violations. David Lee Womack sued D. Scott Dodrill, Harley Lappin, …
Article • March 15, 2011
Filed under: Medical, Cardiovascular, Kidney
D.C. Pays $35,000 for Improper Care of Prisoner’s Kidney Failure and Hypertension by On March 25, 2004, the District of Columbia paid $35,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Plaintiff Andrew Rogers in which he claimed the District failed to properly treat his hypertension and failing kidney while he was …
D.C. Pays $80,000 to Settle Prisoner’s Civil Rights Suit by On August 2, 2006, the District of Columbia paid $80,000 to settle with a prisoner who alleged violations of his civil rights under the 5th and 8th Amendments and D.C.’s Lorton Act. The suit was filed in the U.S. District …
Article • March 15, 2011
Filed under: Medical, Skin
D.C. Prisoner Receives $7,000 Settlement for Untreated Cyst by On October 21, 2004, the District of Columbia paid $7,000 to settle with Plaintiff Roosevelt Powell, who had sued the District over an untreated cyst. On March 21, 2002, Powell complained of a cyst on his left cheek, but was not …
Article • March 15, 2011
D.C. Prisoner Settles Stabbing Suit for $11,000 by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $11,000 to settle the negligence suit of prisoner Freddie Jacobs for injuries incurred from being stabbed by another prisoner. While at the D.C. Jail on March 26, 2005, Jacobs was grabbed from behind and stabbed with …
Article • March 15, 2011
D.C. Prisoner Settles Stabbing, Failure to Protect Suit for $9,000 by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $9,000 to settle the negligence suit of prisoner Karl Carrington for injuries sustained from a stabbing by another prisoner. Carrington was stabbed by another prisoner with a metal push broom. While the complaint …
Article • March 15, 2011
D.C. Prisoner Stabbed While Handcuffed Accepts $11,250 Settlement by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $11,250 to settle the negligence suit of prisoner Earl King for injuries suffered when he was stabbed by another prisoner. While at D.C.’s Occoquan Facility/Lorton Maximum Security on August 16, 1999, King was stabbed in …
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