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Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Pennsylvania Class-action Targets Company Providing Inaccurate Background Checks by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Helen Stokes, a 65-year-old Pennsylvania woman with no criminal record, was nonetheless continually denied credit due to inaccuracies in her background report that a property credit reporting company refused to correct. Consequently, she filed a class-action …
Brief • December 27, 2017
Filed under: Class Notice
Simmons v. Fallin, OK, Order, 2017 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA GLYNN SIMMONS, et al., Plaintiff, v. MARY FALLIN, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. CIV-17-908-SLP ORDER Before the Court is the Report and Recommendation …
Bangert v. County of Placer, et al., CA, class-action complaint, abuse at jail, 2017 Case 2:17-cv-01667-KJN Document 1 Filed 08/11/17 Page 1 of 23 1 Mark E. Merin (State Bar No. 043849) Paul H. Masuhara (State Bar No. 289805) 2 LAW OFFICE OF MARK E. MERIN 3 4 5 6 …
Hoffer v. Jones, FL, Class Action Complaint, Failure to Provde Hep C Treatment, 2017 Case 4:17-cv-00214-MW-CAS Document 1 Filed 05/11/17 Page 1 of 51 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Tallahassee Division CARL HOFFER, RONALD MCPHERSON, and ROLAND MOLINA, individually and on behalf of a Class of persons …
Brief • April 27, 2017
Hand v Scott, FL Complaint, Voting Rights, 2017 Case 4:17-cv-00128-MW-CAS Document 29 Filed 04/27/17 Page 1 of 82 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION JAMES MICHAEL HAND, ) JOSEPH JAMES GALASSO, ) HAROLD W. GIRCSIS, JR., ) CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL SMITH, ) WILLIAM BASS, JERMAINE …
Ninth Circuit: Plata Doesn’t Bar Individual Injunctive Relief Claims; $26,000 Settlement by Mark Wilson Ninth Circuit: Plata Doesn’t Bar Individual Injunctive Relief Claims; $26,000 Settlement by Mark Wilson The Ninth Circuit Court of Ap­peals has held that an individual California prisoner’s medical care injunctive relief claims are not barred by …
Coleman v. Brown, CA, Notice of Class Action Decision, Discrimination on Basis of Psychiatric Condition, 2015 Case 2:90-cv-00520-KJM-DAD Document 5284-2 Filed 03/02/15 Page 1 of 1 NOTICE - DECISION IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE CLASS ACTION (Coleman v. Brown) On September 13, 1995, a federal court in Sacramento ruled that the …
T.R. V. South Carolina DOC, SC, Judgment, 2014 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA ) ) COUNTY OF RICHLAND ) ) T.R., P.R., and K.W., on behalf of ) themselves and others similarly situated; ) and Protection and Advocacy for People ) with Disabilities, Inc., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) …
Bacote v. FBOP, CO, Complaint - Treatment Inmates With Mental Illness With Exhibits (2012) Case 1:12-cv-01570 Document 1 Filed 06/18/12 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 108 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. MICHAEL BACOTE, HAROLD CUNNINGHAM, JOHN W. NARDUCCI, JR., JEREMY PINSON, …
Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010
Gloucester County, New Jersey Settles Jail Strip Search Class Action for $4 Million by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 14, 2009, the parties in a class action lawsuit against Gloucester County, New Jersey over the county jail’s strip search policies filed a settlement agreement in federal district court …
Prison Health Care, Political Choice and the Accidental Death Penalty in Michigan by Elizabeth Alexander by Elizabeth Alexander1 In Hadix v. Caruso, I represent a class of prisoners in a decades-long case challenging conditions of confinement, including medical care, at various Michigan prison facilities.2 Since August 2006 I have been …
Hadix Litigation Winding Down by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After nearly thirty years, a class-action lawsuit challenging conditions of confinement at the State Prison of Southern Michigan-Center Complex is on the cusp of ending. The end is in sight not because prison officials have fully complied with a …
Settlement in Class-Action Suit Against CCA Modified After PLN Unseals Court Documents by Alex Friedmann Last October, PLN reported that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison firm, had settled a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Kansas that raised claims under the Fair Labor …
$100 Million Settlement in Michigan Prisoners’ Sexual Abuse Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A record-breaking settlement has been reached in a 13-year-old class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of female prisoners who were “subjected to sexual abuse, sexual harassment, privacy violations by male [prison] staff ... and/or retaliation …
Statute of Limitations Bars Damages Claim for Voluntary Participation in Human Experiments; Ninth Circuit Reverses and Remands; Case Settles for $1.5 Million by An Oregon federal district court granted summary judgment against a former prisoner who brought suit on his behalf and that of a class of Oregon Department of …
Court Orders Disclosure of Medical Records; Reverses Itself Next Day by U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe ordered the release of medical records of 30 prisoners to class counsel in a civil rights action challenging the adequacy of care provided to HIV positive New York prisoners after the prisoners objected …
Jewel v. National Security Agency, et. al., CA, Complaint, Jury Demand, Illegal Surveillance, 2008.pdf 1 1. Plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated persons, bring this 2 action and allege upon personal knowledge and belief as to their own acts, and upon information and 3 4 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Order Limiting Defendant from Contacting Class Members Should be Narrow by The court previously restricted the defendant employer from contacting individual employees in an action brought by the E.E.O.C. It now adopts the Eleventh Circuit's view that orders limiting communications between parties and potential class members "should be based on …
After 34 Years, Alabama Complies With Mental Health Order by In what used to be Wyatt v. Stickeney, the Alabama mental health/mental retardation litigation filed in 1970, the court grants a joint motion for a declaration that the defendants have complied with the most recent settlement agreement and to vacate …
Article • May 15, 2007
Modification to Ruiz Stipulation Not Abuse of Discretion by Relief was entered in a class-action suit against the Texas prison system (TDC). Following the Fifth Circuit's stay of the provision of the Ruiz stipulated decree prohibiting even properly supervised prisoners from possessing keys, the district court entered a Stipulated Modification …
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