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Summary Judgment Reversed on Fact Issues of Guards' Failure to Protect Prisoner by Bob Williams The Seventh Circuit court of appeals has reversed summary judgment where issues of material fact remain concerning guards' deliberate indifference to a prisoner's safety in a failure to protect case. Bryan Case, an Illinois state …
Jury Awards $700,000 to Chicago Jail Worker for Sexual Harassment by On July 2, 2003, a federal jury in Chicago, Illinois, awarded $700,000 in damages to a female employee of the Chicago jail in Illinois who was sexually harassed and assaulted by a male co-worker. Kathleen Kessel, 35, and Beverly …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
California Parole Rescission Panel's Disagreement With Granting Panel Fails The "Some Evidence" Standard by John E Dannenberg California Parole Rescission Panel's Disagreement With Granting Panel Fails The "Some Evidence" Standard by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a California life prisoner's rescission of his …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Exceeding Doctor's Work Limit Order Actionable Under Eighth Amendment by John E Dannenberg Exceeding Doctor's Work Limit Order Actionable Under Eighth Amendment by John E. Dannenberg The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that prison officials' forcing of a prisoner to work in excess of a four hour doctor-established …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
New York Prisoner's Assault Claim Headed for Trial by New York's Court of Appeals, its highest court, has held prisoner Francisco Sanchez's state tort lawsuit alleging negligent supervision against the state of New York raises an issue of whether an assault on Sanchez was foreseeable. The Court of Claims granted …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
BOP Electric Musical Instrument Ban Upheld by DC Circuit by John E Dannenberg BOP Electric Musical Instrument Ban Upheld by DC Circuit by John E. Dannenberg The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld the BOP ban on electric musical instruments in federal prisons, rejecting prisoner arguments that …
Wyoming Prisoners Win Summary Judgment for Increased Security by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The class of all Wyoming state pris-oners won injunctive relief forcing prison officials to protect them from unprovoked assault, bodily injury and death at the hands of other prisoners, now, and in the future. …
Federal Tort Claims Act Suit Limitation Construed in Medical Suit by Affirming the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the United States was entitled to summary judgment under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) in a prisoner's medical …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Dismissal Without Notice for Untimely Service of § 1983 Complaint Is Abuse of Discretion by Dismissal Without Notice for Untimely Service of § 1983 Complaint Is Abuse of Discretion When the United States District Court (SD NY) dismissed a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint for his failure to serve …
Circumstantial Evidence Sufficient to Defeat Summary Judgment by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held circumstantial evidence in a retaliation claim is sufficient to defeat summary judgment in prison officials' favor. While confined at New York's Bare Hill Correctional Facility, prisoner Gregory Gayle filed a grievance stating he heard prison …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Chief Medical Officer Liable On Medical Policy Decisions by John E Dannenberg Chief Medical Officer Liable On Medical Policy Decisions by John E. Dannenberg The Second Circuit US Court of Ap-peals held that a prisoner's complaint regarding a painful chronic medical complication that developed at the site of a knife …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Ninth Circuit Holds Exhaustion of Remedies Mandatory Before Filing Suit by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Ap-peals joined eight other U.S. Courts of Appeals in holding that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) mandates, under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), that administrative remedies must be exhausted prior to a prisoner …
Retaliation Claim Satisfied by Existence of Major Misconduct Citation by John E Dannenberg Retaliation Claim Satisfied by Existence of Major Misconduct Citation by John E. Dannenberg The Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals held that the "substantial or motivating factor" element required satisfying a Michigan prisoner's protected speech First Amendment …
Kentucky Jury Awards $2,641 to Estate of Murdered Prisoner by In the January, 2003, issue of PLN we reported Flint Ex Rel Flint v. Kentucky Department of Corrections, 270 F.3d 340 (6th Cir. 2001) where the court held that Kentucky prison officials and employees of Correctional Industries were not entitled …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke States Eighth Amendment Claim by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sec-ond Circuit reversed and remanded a district court's dismissal of a New York prisoner's lawsuit which complained of second-hand tobacco smoke. Samuel Davis, a non-smoker, had been a prisoner at New York's Attica Correctional …
No Jurisdiction for Interlocutory Appeal Where Evidence Is Disputed in Failure to Protect Suit by John E Dannenberg No Jurisdiction for Interlocutory Appeal Where Evidence Is Disputed in Failure to Protect Suit by John E. Dannenberg The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Ap-peals held that in a prisoner's Eighth Amendment …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
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Inquiry Required Before Dismissal for Failure to Pay Partial Filing Fee by Inquiry Required Before Dismissal for Failure to Pay Partial Filing Fee The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held a district court must inquire into why a prisoner failed to pay an initial partial filing fee as ordered …
Filing • May 3, 2000
PLN v. WA DOC, WA, Reply to Response to Complaint, Records - Employee Conduct, 2000 I /\ I 2 3 4 IN THE SUPERJOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHING TON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF THURSTON 5 6 7 PRJSON LEGAL NEWS, INC., a Washington non-profit corporation, No. …
Brief • April 28, 2000
Vincent v. Martin, MI, Memo and Order, Right to Counsel, 2000 2:99-cv-71416-AC Doc # 81 Filed 04/28/00 Pg 1 of 14 Pg ID 178 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION JOHN VINCENT, Sr. and JOHN VINCENT, Jr., Plaintiffs, Case No. 99-CV-71416 V. HONORABLE AVERN COHN BILL …
Brief • April 18, 2000
Spina v. Kurtz, PA, Settlement, Civil Action Schuylkill County Prison, 2000 .. GENERAL RELEASE THAT MICHAEL ANDREW SPINA, for and in consideration of the sum of Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, does hereby remise, release and forever discharge DAVID KURTZ, EUGENE BERNADIER, …
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