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Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
court served the defendant without prepayment of fees, but did not specifically rule on Teixeira's motion. When Teixeira failed to file an expert's report or $5,000.00 bond within 90 days of filing his ...
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
. But the court's rational basis test was directed solely to the claim of financial pain to the state's defending against such prisoner suits during the years 1995 - 1999 when Michigan -- in a momentary lapse ...
, the court rejected defendants request for sanctions for plaintiffs having referred in their reply brief to the report of a grand jury investigation into abuses at the Cook County Jail. The court found that [i ...
a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging the Defendants violated its rights to act under the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. § 10801 (PAMII Act). Under the PAMII ...
the state must refund the money. The report also noted that the DOC is a defendant in several class-action lawsuits related to prisoner healthcare, of which several have already been settled in the prisoners ...
the fraud had been wrongfully terminated thereafter. A settlement was reached totaling $500,000 for both the fraud and the wrongful termination. RVCP is a 75-bed halfway house providing drug abuse treatment ...
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Steven Bigcraft, were unable to motivate Cook with threats and other verbal abuse, he was taken to a control room and strapped into a restraint chair, the lawsuit said. A spit mask was placed over his face ...
and verbal abuse of ADTC prisoners while on transport vans with other state prisoners. As such, the Court held that prison officials? practice of identifying ADTC prisoners as sex offenders and refusing ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
rights lawsuit filed by former prisoner Jermaine Padilla after prison staff physically abused him while he was having a mental health crisis. On April 25, 2017, the CDCR agreed to a $950,000 settlement ...
Article • August 23, 2016
, Mark Lavelle, who sat in the gallery during the trial, Harris chose to defend himself, cross-examining witnesses, presenting video evidence, and offering an "occasional rant against the prison system ...
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
at the allegations, though he reported the guard’s inappropriate comments. The nurse claimed she was subjected to retaliation after she filed a complaint; named as defendants in her suit were the guard ...
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Discrimination
a feature article on how wealthy defendants are treated in our judicial system. After publishing our last cover story several years ago, I was surprised that the PBS radio show “Wait, Wait, Don’t ...
Article • November 30, 2017
prosecution, failure to intervene, conspiracy, abuse of process and emotional distress. “All I can say right now is that we will defend the city,” said Reno City Attorney Karl Hall. In addition ...
was intended to "screen and prevent abusive and prolific offender litigation in Indiana." (Smith v. Huckins, 850 N.E.2d 480, 483 (Ind. App. 2006).) A suit may be barred if it is frivolous, has no apparent basis ...
Article • March 15, 2013
in the case, turning aside defendants' motions for summary judgment, that he had been provided detailed instructions with regard to the applicable governing law and trial procedures, and the case ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
in a verdict in favor of the defendants on overdetention claims between 2007 and 2008; however, the district court had previously granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs on their claims related to strip ...
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
court in Clarksburg, West Virginia to a split sentence of six months in jail and six months of home detention on charges related to wire fraud. Her co-defendant and son, Tyree Skipper, pleaded guilty ...
track record of abuse, mismanagement and neglect.” Naturally, the company denies those allegations. This month, a man died while in custody at the Geo-run Adelanto immigration detention center ...
Article • September 13, 2017
process, unlawful search and seizure, false arrest, negligence, abuse of process, and negligent infliction of emotional distress claims. Rodriguez was represented by attorneys Trina Realmuto of the National ...
reached in the 2007 suicide of a prisoner at Pennsylvania’s Blair County Prison (BCP). The settlement included the prisoner’s personal physician as well as county defendants. Following an injury ...
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