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Brief • January 29, 2001
Witherspoon v. Pierce County, WA, Claim, Jail Guard Rape, 2001 ~ ~ r" ,f. . HI:\.;I:I VI:U CLAIM FOR DAMAGE L- J.AN 292001 PIERCE COUNTY RISK MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT 955 Tacoma Avenue sOUlh. Suite 303 ,, , T 8CO!Tll, Washington 98402 . PIERCE 'COUNTY RISK MANAGEMENT (253) 79&-7462 c/o attorney Home: …
Brief • January 25, 2001
Iverson v. Snohomish County, WA, Complaint, Wages Owed, 2001 - --------------------------------------. . -" , I 2 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH 3 4 TERRY IVERSON, Plaintiff, 5 y, 6 7 SNOHOMISH COUNTY and SNOHOMISH COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES AND WAGES OWED Defendants. 8 9 COMES …
Brief • January 23, 2001
Davenport v. Seling, WA, Settlement, Civil Commitment Confinement Conditions, 2001 Page,Z of q #1089211 ~oC)~l.t?- ~,;..o m~SS'ZILLY .' 1.1'7 1 2 , 3 ,4 ~~I~DGED:tr-::~_= 5 JAN 1'7 2001 e 7 ~ FILED J:1L,MERED . LODGED _RECQV£D ' JAN 222001 ' . A'f &11ATTt.l .cLERK u.s. DISTRICT COURT WES1EllN DISTRICT …
Brief • January 19, 2001
Myers v. Snohomish County, WA, Special Verdict Form, Medical Malpractice, 2001 • " .. • ~--r flied intPen Co• . l'1 20iir' . PAM L. DANIELS COUNlY CLERK • ~9Q"'fu.U_ DePuty CI.rk IN THE SUPERlOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH FRED C. …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
MO Consent Decree Modification Affirmed by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a district court correctly granted prison officials' motion to modify a consent decree to allow for prison overcrowding. The ruling is novel in this post Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) era when prison officials …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Brazil: On October 22, 2000, 420 prisoners at the Nelson Hungria prison in Contagem rioted and seized control of the prison to protest overcrowding and bad conditions: The prisoners took two policemen and 16 prison guards hostage. CA: In July, 2000, Wackenhut Corrections Corp. announced it …
NY DOCS Guard Nets $300,000 for ADA Retaliation by The U.S. court of appeals for the Second Circuit held that the absence of a finding of disability in a guard's Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) claim did not preclude a finding that the guard's employer retaliated against him for bringing …
Certificate of Review Mandatory in Colorado Negligence Suits by Bob Williams The Colorado Supreme court has held that prisoners must file a "certificate of review" under Colorado law when suing a licensed professional (LP) for negligence, whether or not the LP is a named party, but that a failure to …
DC District Court Denies Guards' Summary Judgment Retaliation Case by A federal district court in the District of Columbia has denied prison guards' motion for summary judgment and set for trial a civil rights suit alleging that guards retaliated against prisoners who complained of a guard's repeated unsolicited sexual propositions. …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
High Standard of Proof for Retaliation Claims by On remand, a federal district court in New York held that a state prisoner failed to establish "actual injury" in his access to court claims, nor did he show that prison officials acted with a retaliatory animus. Once again, summary judgment was …
No Immunity for Ignoring Prisoner Work Restrictions by Ronald Young No Immunity For Ignoring Prisoner Work Restrictions by Ronald Young A federal district court for the Eastern district of New York held that a prisoner's allegations that he was required to perform sanitation duties despite a doctor's orders to the …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
NY Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Work Release by Ronald Young NY Prisoners Have Liberty Interest In Work Release by Ronald Young A federal district court for the Eastern District of New York held that the failure of the state to provide a prisoner with 24 hour's notice of a …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Cursory Medical Treatment Cruel and Unusual by The U.S. court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a failure to diagnose a prisoner's colon cancer may have been extremely negligent, but it did not rise to the level of deliberate indifference. However, a factual dispute precluded summary judgment on …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Seventh Circuit Rejects ETS Claim by The U.S. court of appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a pretrial detainee's injuries from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) were not sufficiently serious to support a due process claim, and that he could not recover for future injuries absent some showing …
Qualified Immunity Denied in CO Rape Case; Suit Settled for $70,000 by In an unpublished ruling, the Tenth Circuit has denied qualified immunity to prison officials who failed to protect a prisoner from being raped by another prisoner. Marvin Gray, a "large and powerful individual with a violent past," was …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright Paul Wright January 15, 2001, marks the end of PLN's matching grant fundraiser. PLN still hasn't reached the full $15,000 grant maximum. If you haven't donated yet to the matching grant fundraiser please do so now. We will report the fundraiser's results in the …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Alabama Ad Seg Publication Ban Struck Down by On March 20, 2000, a Federal Magistrate recommended declaratory relief striking down a ban on subscription publications in the Alabama Department of Corrections' (DOC) Administrative Segregation (Ad Seg) unit. This recommendation follows a previous ruling where the Court held, after a bench …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Eleventh Amendment Immunity for Illinois Sheriff Denied by Denial of a county Sheriff's motion for dismissal of an arrestee's civil rights suit was affirmed when the Seventh Circuit upheld a district court's ruling that an Illinois Sheriff is a county officer and Eleventh Amendment immunity did not apply. Mario DeGenova …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
AZ Medical Copayment Not Retroactive by James Quigley A federal district court in Arizona held that Ariz. Rev. Stat. (ARS) § 31201.01, which includes a socalled medical copayment provision, cannot be applied to state prisoners who are incarcerated for offenses committed prior tothe statute's effective date. In an unpublished ruling …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Morrissey Protections Required for WA Community Custody Revocation by In a case of first impression, the Washington state court of appeals held that an individual facing community custody revocation is entitled to the procedural protections established in Morrissey v. Brewer, 408, U.S. 471, 92 S.Ct. 2593 (1972), but that counsel …
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