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. 1995)[PLN April 1996]. After a jury trial in 1992 the prisoner obtained a $23,000 judgment. This opinion involves the prisoner's attorneys' efforts to recover their fees, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 ...
42 U.S.C. § 1983 are entitled to qualified immunity unless they have violated statutory or constitutional rights `clearly established' by a case presenting facts `materially similar' to those ...
to comply with 42 U.S.C. §1997e(d)(2) and apply a portion of the damages, not to exceed twenty-five percent, to the fees and costs. The district court was affirmed in all respects except on the attorney ...
Article • May 15, 2007
and complained of constant, severe pain. Dellairo sued Garland under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for violation of his Eighth Amendment rights through deliberate indifference to a serious medical need. Garland moved ...
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
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of Appeals reversed a U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) ruling that had misinterpreted 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e) to require physical injury in order to gain relief from unconstitutional prison conditions. While ...
Article • May 15, 2007
erred by not allowing a prisoner to amend his § 1983 complaint to cure an Eleventh Amendment defect. Morgan Gramegna, an Alabama state prisoner, brought pro se, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against the prison ...
Case • 2008
FNU Simpson, Officer (PCSO), John Doe, 1, Officer (PCSO), John Doe, 2, Officer (PCSO), et al., Defendants-Appellees. No. 07-10366. April 30, 2008. *901 Adam Barrett Townshend, Latham & Watkins ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Act, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. “It’s unfortunate, but it took three years ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
to process and respond to the plaintiff’s grievance rendered the process “unavailable” under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), excusing him from ...
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Federal Judge Orders Cook County to Correct Courthouse ADA Violations by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna U.S. District Court Judge Robert W. Gettleman issued an injunction on May 2, 2017, holding ...
Article • December 7, 2017
in the Southern District of New York, adopted in part a magistrate's report and recommendation which granted attorney's fees and costs to a lawyer who had won a jury verdict in a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ...
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d)(2). The county eventually paid the compensatory awards for all four defendants as well as the punitive damages, except for the $150,000 award against ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Litigation Reform Act (42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d)(2)) requires successful prisoner-plaintiffs to pay a “portion of the judgment (not to exceed 25 percent).... to satisfy the amount of attorney’s ...
Appropriate in § 1983 Wrongful Death Suit Despite a jury’s award of only nominal damages, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the award of attorney’s fees to a plaintiff who filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ...
they reside, are employed or are a student. An RSO who travels in interstate or foreign commerce without updating a registry as required by SORNA is in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a). Further, 42 U.S.C ...
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
that a litigant who successfully gets an appellate court to vacate a prison disciplinary infraction and declare a statute unconstitutional is a prevailing party under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, entitling him to attorney ...
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
provisions found at 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d). Section 1997e(d)(2) provides, inter alia , that up to 25% of an attorneys' fees award is to be paid from the damage award, and 1997e(d)(3) stipulates that fees ...
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
suit pro se in federal court for the Northern District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on September 11, 2018, accusing the guard of using excessive force in violation of his Eighth Amendment ...
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
held that an Illinois prisoner’s challenge to civil commitment as a sexually violent person after release cannot be raised under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, unless the underlying civil commitment ...
of her rights to due process and equal protection under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff also charges the defendants ...
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