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District Court Awards Attorney Fees on Forced Medication Claim by The U.S. District Court for the District of Utah awarded attorney fees and costs to a jail prisoner who complained of being forcibly medicated with psychotropic drugs. The fees awarded, however, were only about one-third the requested amount. Daniel Howard …
Sheriff's Delay Or Denial Of Detainee's Serious Medical Needs Ruled Sufficient To Defeat Summary Judgment Motion by The Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled that a sergeant's actions that resulted in delay or denial of medical care to a county jail detainee who subsequently died from alcohol withdrawal seizures …
BOP Can Perform Autopsy Over Executed Prisoner's Religious Objection by A federal statute prescribes that federal death sentences be implemented consistently with the law of the state where the sentence was imposed, even if the execution is to take place elsewhere. State procedures take precedence over inconsistent regulations promulgated by …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Upholds North Dakota Prisoner's Forced Drugging by The plaintiff was involuntarily administered psychotropic medications, after a hearing, based on his uncontrolled assaultive behavior and his evident paranoia and its consequences. At 1054-55: A competent adult has the right to refuse medical treatment. . . . Courts have based this …
Forced Psychotropic Drugging Verdict of $17,000 Affirmed by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that a jury had. properly found in favor of an Illinois prisoner who was forcibly drugged with psychotropic drugs. The plaintiff was an Illinois prisoner in fear of his life after being threatened …
Article • May 15, 2007
E.R. Doctor Not "State Actor"; Prison Guards Liable for Assault by E.R. Doctor Not "State Actor"; Prison Guards Liable for Assault The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, partly reversing a federal district court in Michigan, has held that a state prisoner stated a claim for relief against prison guards for …
Article • May 15, 2007
$1,000,000 Award for Crude, Nonconsensual Finger Amputation by On May 22, 2001, a South Carolina jury awarded $1 million to a state prisoner who claimed that after he traumatically severed his ring finger in a slip and fall accident, a prison doctor crudely amputated the residual bone at the prison …
Article • May 15, 2007
Seventh Circuit: Administration of Delousing Shampoo in Indiana Jail Constitutional by Seventh Circuit: Administration of Delousing Shampoo in Indiana Jail Constitutional On September 16, 2004, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that Indiana jail officials did not violate prisoners' constitutional rights by telling them to wash their hair …
Court Denies Certification to Class of Involuntarily Operated On Mental Patients by Court Denies Certification to Class of Involuntarily Operated On Mental Patients Developmentally disabled persons challenged the District's policy of allowing city officials to consent to elective surgical procedures on their behalf (in the named plaintiffs' cases, two involuntary …
Federal Immigration Detainee Taken Off Life Support Without Family's Consent by by John E. Dannenberg A 69 year-old Mexican national, who suffered a heart attack at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles and was put on life support at White Memorial Medical Center, was taken off life …
Publication • 2004
Hepatitis C Guidelines, VA DOC Office of Health Services Unit, 2004 Hepatitis C Guidelines DISCUSSION Recently, questions have arisen regarding the use of the non‐formulary protease inhibitors, telaprevir and boceprevir in the management of offenders with Chronic Hepatitis C. In the October 2011 issue of Hepatology, the American Association for …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Release of Medical Liability May Establish Deliberate Indifference by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a consent to surgery releasing liability may establish deliberate indifference to medical care. In 1996, David Wayne Vanderbeck (Beck), a Minnesota state prisoner, began suffering numbness and cramping caused by a bullet …
Publication • September 30, 1978
Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, USDHEW, 1978 The Belmont Report Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research DHEW Publication No. (OS) 78-0012 For sale …
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