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Texas Supreme Court Holds TDCJ Immune in Suit Alleging Sexual Assault of Prisoners by Texas Supreme Court Holds TDCJ Immune in Suit Alleging Sexual Assault of Prisoners   On October 26, 2102, the Texas Supreme Court held that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice – Community Justice Assistance Division (TDCJ) …
Alabama Sheriff Made Party on Counterclaim Alleging Prisoners Subjected to Sexual Abuse by The Alabama Supreme Court has held that a third party to a lawsuit may be made a party when a counterclaim is filed. The Court also held a sheriff named as a defendant was not entitled to …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Discretionary Immunity Dismissal of Ohio Prisoner’s Negligence Claims Reversed by On March 12, 2013, the Ohio Court of Appeals overturned an earlier discretionary immunity decision and reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s negligence claims on the basis of discretionary immunity. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) prisoner …
California: State Not Liable for Failure to Provide Needed Treatment so Long as Medical Care is Summoned by On January 15, 2013, the California Court of Appeal held that state prison officials were immune from liability, as a matter of law, for decisions that resulted in a prisoner failing to …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
U.S. Supreme Court Reinstates BOP Prisoner's FTCA Suit by J.R. Bloom On March 27, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified that the scope of the Federal Tort Claims Act's waiver of sovereign immunity for certain intentional torts committed by federal law enforcement officials was not limited to executing searches, seizing …
Article • May 15, 2013
Alabama Supreme Court Upholds Exemption for DOC Driver’s Liability by The Supreme Court of Alabama ruled in June 2006 for the state in a lawsuit that arose out of a state prisoner, Warren R. Robinson, on work-release and driving a Department of Corrections (DOC) van, backing into the vehicle of …
Article • May 15, 2013
Oregon Prison Officials Not Immune for Sentence Miscalculation by The Oregon Court of Appeals held that prison officials are not immune from suit for miscalculating a prisoner's sentence by 13 months. In 2000, Chester Westfall was convicted of charges in Jackson County, Oregon, and sentenced to 34 months in prison. …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Utah Potentially Liable for Juvenile’s Death; Incarceration Exception to State’s Immunity Inapplicable by The Utah Supreme Court has that the “incarceration exception” to the state’s waiver of sovereign immunity does not apply to a juvenile offender’s placement in an unsecured community-based proctor home. Sixteen-year-old Dillon Whitney was charged with several …
US District Court Denies Fla. DOC Wrongful Death Defense by The United States District Court for the Middle District in Ocala denied in September 2012 the Florida Department of Corrections’ dispositive motion in the First Amendment claims of Lynn Wolfe, Plaintiff and mother of deceased DOC prisoner, Daniel Wolfe. Plaintiff …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
FBI Loses Prisoner’s Property but Sovereign Immunity Foils Recovery by Derek Gilna On May 29, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals barred Galo Alejandro Ordonez from compensation after the FBI and the federal government acknowledged that property that had been previously seized from him and ordered returned was “presumed …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Fifth Circuit Rules on Prisoner’s ADA Claim; Issues Superseding Opinion by On October 14, 2010, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132, does not abrogate a state’s sovereign immunity when the misconduct complained of does not …
Article • July 15, 2012
Oregon RLUIPA Claim Mooted By Release; Damages Not Available Under RLUIPA by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the sovereign immunity and mootness dismissal of an Oregon prisoner's religious freedom suit. In 2004, Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) prisoner Blackie Alvarez, sued several ODOC officials in their official capacity. …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Georgia Court Rules Prisoners Held in County Facilities Barred from Suing State for Negligence by The Court of Appeals of Georgia held on October 21, 2011 that a county housing state prisoners under a contract with the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC) is an independent contractor; therefore, the state is …
Pennsylvania Prisoner’s $185,000 Jury Award Reduced to $75,005 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 7, 2011, a Pennsylvania federal judge issued an order reducing a prisoner’s jury award for destruction of legal materials to $75,005. The award had previously been reduced from $185,000 to $115,000. Andre Jacobs, a …
Former Connecticut Prisoner's ADA and RA Complaint Survives Motion to Dismiss by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna Former Connecticut state prisoner Richard Rogues' Section 1983 lawsuit for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act (RA) has survived a motion to dismiss filed by defendants, including …
Former Puerto Rican Prisoner Wins Release but Loses § 1983 Action by Derek Gilna Former Puerto Rican Prisoner Wins Release but Loses § 1983 Action By Derek Gilna Angel Luis Feliciano-Hernandez, sentenced by a Puerto Rican court in 1981 to a "term of perpetual imprisonment for treatment" for a "record …
Alaska Scope-of-Employment Certification Reviewable; State Immune from Guards' Excessive Force by The Alaska Supreme Court held that the Attorney General's certification that Defendant prison guards were acting within the scope of their employment is subject to judicial review. The Court also held that the State was immune for a prisoner's …
Sovereign Immunity Withstands RLUIPA; Jewish Succah may be Permissible Religious Exercise by Sovereign Immunity Withstands RLUIPA; Jewish Succah May be Permissible Religious Exercise by David M. Reutter The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) does not waive a state’s Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity from suit for monetary damages. …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court: State P&A Can Sue Another State Agency for Records by David Reutter U.S. Supreme Court: State P&A Can Sue Another State Agency for Records by David Reutter The U.S. Supreme Court held on April 19, 2011 that sovereign immunity does not apply when one agency of a …
Article • September 15, 2011
Fourth Circuit: Virginia Not Immune from RLUIPA Suit by On December 29, 2006, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) was a valid exercise of Congress’ spending powers and that the State of Virginia was subject to its requirements because …
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