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Article • May 15, 2007
Class Settlement No Bar to Federal Parolee's Damages Suit by The plaintiff was arrested on a parole violation warrant; the charges were dismissed a few months later and plaintiff's lawyer notified parole authorities; the government said the case remained "open and ongoing" despite the failure to return an indictment. After …
Article • May 15, 2007
D.C. Court Upholds BOP Work Release Policy Change by The Department of Justice abruptly changed its policy to forbid service of prison sentences in community correction centers. The prior policy was to honor judicial recommendations that sentences be served in a community correction center. The new policy did not deny …
Article • May 15, 2007
Title VII Plaintiff Can Rely on EEO Statements for Exhaustion Purposes by The court applies equitable principles to excuse the plaintiff from exhausting one aspect of her Title VII claim because she withdrew the relevant administrative charge based on the incorrect advice of an EEO counselor. At 17-18: "Failure to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Michigan Court Requires Total Administrative Exhaustion of All Claims by Detailed allegations that a prisoner exhausted but did not receive a response at the final step sufficiently alleged exhaustion, even in the Sixth Circuit. The court refuses to apply Sixth Circuit law requiring the plaintiff to have named each defendant …
Article • May 15, 2007
Class-wide Injunctions Rarely Appropriate in Individual Suits by At 273: "While district courts are not categorically prohibited from granting injunctive relief benefitting an entire class in an individual suit, such broad relief is rarely justified because injunctive relief should be no more burdensome to the defendant than necessary to provide …
Censorship of Photos States §1983 Claim by Censorship of Photos States §1983 Claim The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan held that a state prisoner's complaint that a prison mail room supervisor denied black prisoners nude photographs of white women while permitting white prisoners to have nude …
$75,000 Awarded to Prisoner for Inadequate Medical Care by $75,000 Awarded to Prisoner For Inadequate Medical Care An Iowa prisoner escaped from prison and shot two cops. When captured he was badly beaten and then denied medical treatment for his injuries. He filed suit and at trial he was awarded …
State Law Claim Review Standard in Federal Action by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that federal law governs the ultimate issue of constitutional law in this Texas jail case, but state law provisions governing daily jail operations were a state law matter and federal courts do …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ten Years in Segregation Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the First circuit affirmed a Rhode Island district court injunction ordering a prisoner's release from segregation after ten years. The lower court ruling is published at: 549 F. Supp. 291. The injunction required prisoner's integration from segregation to general …
Sixth Circuit Orders Reconsideration of Attorney Fees Claim in Drug Testing Case by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that use of the enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT) urine test for detecting prisoners' consumption of illegal drugs did not violate due process and did not violate terms of …
Denial of Disciplinary Nearing Witnesses Illegal; $250 Damages Awarded by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that it violates due process for prison disciplinary hearing officers to refuse to call witnesses for the hearing. District court ruled in Iowa prisoner's favor and awarded $250 in damages where …
Retaliatory Beatings Violate First Amendment, Damages Awarded by Retaliatory Beatings violate First Amendment, Damages Awarded The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that a district court had improperly granted Judgment Notwithstanding the verdict to prisoner officials in a retaliation suit filed by New York state prisoners. Court also …
Article • May 15, 2007
Governor Held in Contempt in RI Crowding Suit by A federal district court in Rhode Island held that the state's governor and director of prisons were in continuing contempt for failing to comply with previous orders to correct unconstitutional prison conditions. Court previously held that prisoners and detainees could not …
Liberty Interests for PC Prisoners Discussed by A federal district court in Missouri held that protective custody Colorado prisoners sent to Missouri to relieve overcrowding in their home state, had a due process liberty interest in being treated the same as general population prisoners in Colorado were. Prisoners alleged deprivations …
NJ Jail Held in Contempt by A federal district court in New Jersey held that the Essex county jail was in contempt for not complying with orders to limit overcrowding and give prisoners outdoor exercise. Court had previously found conditions were deplorable and ordered relief. Court sanctioned jail with $1,476,800.00 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jim Crow Segregation Laws Illegal by A three judge district court struck down as unconstitutional Georgia statutes requiring the racial segregation of state prisons and local jails. Court also held prisoners lacked standing to demand prisons and jails to hire black staff. Interesting historical description of Jim Crow prisons. See: …
Prisoner Organizers Transferred for Safety from Staff by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit affirmed a district court injunction ordering two prisoner activists transferred to another prison for protection from prison staff. The plaintiffs were accused of inciting the burning of prison buildings and that their lives would …
Damages in Disciplinary Hearing Case Upheld by The court of appeals for the First circuit upheld a lower court's award of damages to a Massachusetts prisoner denied due process in a disciplinary hearing. The lower court awarded plaintiff $390 in damages, 370 F. Supp. 1071 (D MA 1974). Prisoner was …
NY Prisoner Awarded Damages in Disciplinary Hearing Suit by A federal district court in New York awarded $1,281 in damages to a New York state prisoner whose due process rights were violated at a disciplinary hearing. Defendants refused to investigate plaintiffs claim that marijuana found in his cell was not …
GA Detainee Awarded $50,000 in Damages, Plus Fees, Over Jail Conditions by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit affirmed a district court ruling awarding a Georgia jail detainee $45,000 in compensatory damages, $5,000 in punitive damages and $13,376.25 in attorney fees after he was held in disgusting jail …
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