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. In April 2003 using $1 million in emergency funds made available by Alabama's incoming Governor Bob Riley, the state Board of Pardons and Paroles began conducting special reviews to consider about 70 ...
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
Prison, sued prison officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in response to guards' use of pepper spray in their cell block against others without providing protection for them. The two claims were (1) for using ...
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
.'" In doing so, the trial court should consider the following non-exclusive factors: (1) the cost and inconvenience of transporting the prisoner; (2) the security risk presented by the prisoner; (3) whether ...
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
in court documents after NJDOC refused to heed Judge DeSoto's clarification. The NJDOC argued that state law allowed it to: 1) aggregate the January 31, 1997 with the May parole violation; and 2) sentences ...
Miranda was negligent. Dorado was awarded a total of $1 million in damages: $50,000 each for past and future loss of society companionship; $50,000 each for past and future loss of consortium; $200,000 ...
"third party calls." The court held that Kimberlin presented affirmative evidence that would permit a jury to conclude that:(1) Miller's actions were motivated by pressure from the Bush-Quayle Campaign ...
which we reported in PLN at the time, see: Kimberlin v. Quinlan , 774 F.Supp 1 (DC 1991). The government filed an interlocutory appeal claiming that they were entitled to qualified immunity from suit ...
brought by a deaf prisoner challenging WDOC's failure to provide qualified interpreters and other accommodations needed by deaf persons in prison. On December 1, 1997, lawyers for both plaintiffs filed ...
administers discipline, and the ease with which state trial courts approve such unconstitutional practices. See: Munn v. State , 694 So.2d 92 (Fla. App. 1 Dist. 1997). ...
a crook, he could have stolen a fortune on construction contracts, couldn't he? And after 2 1/2 years, all this federal grand jury comes up with is these little piss-ant contracts for $20,000 ...
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
of Justice (DOJ), a 12 percent boost (about $1.8 billion) more than 1996. That is four times what the DOJ received a decade ago. The DEA will get $1 billion, up $192.1 million over 1996. The FBI's funding ...
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
prison population stood at 1,093,738. Combining both types of suits, there was 1 suit filed for every 21 prisoners in 1994. In per-captia terms, therefore, prisoners filed lawsuits at a 23.5 percent ...
after finding that Friedl stated two claims under §1983: (1) denial of procedural due process when state defendants withdrew him from the work release program, and (2) denial of substantive due process ...
their right to qualified immunity. The court awarded compensatory damages based on (1) the difference in pay between Castor's kitchen assignment and his assignment following transfer, (2) incurred ...
. The Court also held that while Wyngaard failed to object to the hearing officer's testimony at trial, the plain error rule applied to unpreserved claims of constitutional error. Using a threepart test: (1 ...
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
his petition for a writ of habeas corpus prior to the enactment of § 501.0081. The CCA noted that, prior to 9-1-87, consecutive sentences were calculated by adding the two sentences together ...
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
motion. Plaintiffs' attorneys have announced that they will appeal the termination of relief and dismissal of the case. On May 1, 2003, the TDCJ amended its mail rules. The most significant change ...
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
recipients to press 1 to accept the call). Rates for such calls are very high, but the recording did not disclose this. The plaintiffs, unhappy about the lack of warning about the rates, sued the phone ...
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Paula Joyce a "duty of care" and, thus, was not legally responsible for her death. The DOC also claimed that the damage award was excessive. In a 2-to-1 decision, Division Two affirmed the jury's verdict ...
the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1, et seq. because they were first raised in a post-judgment motion for relief. The Second Circuit noted that the RLUIPA ...
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