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$1,000 Awarded in Texas Prisoner's Retaliation Claim by While serving a life sentence at the Coffield Unit in Texas' prison system, Sonny Wilson filed a grievance in August 1996 against guard Patria Perez Lara. He claimed she would wake him up in the middle of the night, would refuse to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Retaliation Claims Must Be Based On Constitutional Rights by Louisiana State Prisoner Darryl Crockett filed a complaint alleging improper censorship of outgoing mail and retaliation which was dismissed by the district court. Crockett appealed contending that his complaint was erroneously dismissed because he alleged facts in support of a direct …
Retaliatory Transfer Suit Dismissed by The plaintiff alleged that his custody level was increased, he was transferred to a prison where he could not be in general population, and denied parole in retaliation for his filing a private criminal complaint about actions by prison staff. In a heavily fact-based opinion …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Legal Advisor's Transfer Upheld by The plaintiff, an inmate legal advisor, alleged that he was reclassified and transferred in retaliation for filing grievances. At 1037: In this case, the Warden terminated Smith from his position as inmate legal advisor and transferred him to another prison because of his aggressive …
Article • May 15, 2007
BOP Prison Phone Suit Wrongly Dismissed by New federal prison telephone policies limiting prisoners to 300 minutes per calendar month were instituted after the Bureau of Prisons settled an earlier suit about telephone policies. The plaintiff alleged that the earlier settlement was entered fraudulently with intent to retaliate against prisoners …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Summary Judgment in NJ Control Unit Retaliation Case by The plaintiff alleged that after a Behavioral Modification Unit was discontinued, he (unlike almost everybody else there) was returned to administrative segregation. He alleged this was in response to his having filed a grievance about excessive force against another prisoner. …
Stutes v. Tipton et al, VT, Complaint, CCA restraint segregation, 2007 DocUrTIPOt...P° 1 „Filed QV. base 13.1 HICT or H0-7 FH r .r.1 DISTrI&F COURT 711 0 7MAR 30 U STA - FOR THE ".01S CT OF VERIviONT E No. ,.t i . - 6 Kirk STUTES, Plaintiff -uu 11 …
Grievances Must Identify Defendants Later Sued by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed in part and reversed in part an Ohio federal district court?s dismissal of a prisoner?s complaint for failure to comply with the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). Christopher Bell, a prisoner …
US Settles Prisoner’s UNICOR Whistleblower Suit for $6,000 by US Settles Prisoner's UNICOR Whistleblower Suit for $6,000 On October 27, 2006, the United States paid $6,000 to settle with a federal prisoner who claimed he was fired from his UNICOR job in retaliation for filing safety complaints with the Occupational …
Tenth Circuit Reinstates Colorado Ad Seg Conditions Claims by Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has reversed a Colorado state prisoner?s administrative segregation (Ad Seg) conditions of confinement claims which were dismissed as frivolous by the United States District Court for the District of …
PLRA’s Mental and Emotional Damage Award Ban Unconstitutional in $219,000 First Amendment Claim by PLRA's Mental and Emotional Damage Award Ban Unconstitutional in $219,000 First Amendment Claim A Michigan federal district court has held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act?s (PLRA) prohibition of mental or emotional damages without physical injury …
Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of ETS/Retaliation Claims by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(10)(1) dismissal of an environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) claim filed by a Tennessee prisoner, concluding that the plaintiff alleged sufficient facts to state a cognizable Eighth Amendment claim. The appeals court …
BOP Must Let Prisoners Control Their Outside Assets; Pays $10,500 To Settle Grievances by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg In a convoluted pro per suit, two federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoners, who had been retaliated against after they grieved the BOP's having infracted them for controlling their legitimately-acquired …
$225,000 Settlement for Female Colorado Prisoner Raped By Guard by In August 2005, Penifer Salinas, a female Colorado Department of Correction (CDOC) prisoner at Denver Womens Correctional Facility (DWCF) entered into a proposed $225,000 settlement with the State of Colorado. The settlement was a result of a Federal civil rights …
No Qualified Immunity for Retaliatory Transfer; Jury Awards $219,000 in Damages by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a guard is not entitled to qualified immunity for initiating a retaliatory prison transfer against a prisoner who had complained to the guards supervisor that the guard failed to …
Article • May 15, 2006 • from PLN May, 2006
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Retaliation Claim by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district courts dismissal of an Illinois prisoners retaliation claim. On January 17, 2003, Illinois prisoner Robert Hoskins worked in the Dixon Correctional Center (Dixon) cafeteria when Food Services Supervisor Connie Lenear called him a …
Dismissal of Medical and Retaliation Claims Reversed by Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in an unpublished opinion, has reversed a lower courts dismissal of deliberate indifference claims in a prisoners denial of medical treatment for hepatitis C plus pancreatic and gout disorders. The …
Eighth Circuit Upholds Denial of Compensatory/Punitive Damages; Physical by Injury Required in First Amendment Cases In a 2-1 decision, the Eighth Circuit of Appeals held that the Prison Litigation Reform Acts (PLRA) emotional injury bar on compensatory damages of 42 USC § 1997e(e) applies to First Amendment cases. The court …
Alabama Diabetic Prisoner Stomped On and Retaliated Against by Guard Awarded $20,000 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A diabetic Alabama prisoner lying on the floor of his cell due to suffering from his diabetes condition had his leg stomped on by a guard. When the prisoner grieved the …
On Remand From Supreme Court, Sixth Circuit Reverses Judgment on Guard Retaliation Claim by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, on remand from the United States Supreme Court, reversed a district courts grant of summary judgment to a prison guard on a First Amendment retaliation claim. Michigan prisoner Shakur Muhammad …
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