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Article • May 15, 2007
CA Guard Granted Qualified Immunity for Shooting Prisoner in Yard Fight by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held a guard who shot a prisoner during a disturbance on the prison yard is entitled to qualified immunity. While at the California State Prison in Sacramento, the prisoner was standing three …
Article • May 15, 2007
Eighth Amendment Conditions of Confinement Claim Must Show Deliberate Indifference by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a new trial was not warranted in a prisoner's §1983 action because he failed to show deliberate indifference by prison officials in his Eighth Amendment claim, and that …
Article • May 15, 2007
Eighth Circuit: Certain Prisoners Not Entitled to Religious Meals by On March 30, 2004 the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's order requiring Iowa prison officials to deliver special food trays to segregated members of the Church of the New Song (CONS). The Eighth Circuit affirmed …
Article • May 15, 2007
Equitable Tolling of AEDPA's Limitations if Extraordinary Circumstances Exist by Equitable Tolling of AEDPA's Limitations if Extraordinary Circumstances Exist The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a prisoner under the one-year time limitation of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) was granted equitable tolling based on extraordinary …
Article • May 15, 2007
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Escape Statute Encompasses Man's Departure From Courtroom Over Judge's Orders by Escape Statute Encompasses Man's Departure From Courtroom Over Judge's Orders The Court of Appeals of Kansas held that a man who left the courtroom after a judge informed him he was in custody was in violation of the state's …
Article • May 15, 2007
Executing Prisoner Who Regained Competency Does Not Violate His Rights by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that a state does not violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments by executing a prisoner who regains competency through forced medication. Charles Singleton was convicted of capital murder and aggravated robbery in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Failure to Reattach Severed Ear States Cause of Action by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that a doctor may be deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's serious medical needs for failing to sew the prisoner's ear back on after it was cut off. This action was filed by a …
Federal Prisoner Possible Beneficiary in BOP/County Contract by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a prisoner's civil rights suit stated a claim; that the statute authorizing a contract between the Federal Bureau of Prisons and a county to house prisoners did not create a private …
Article • May 15, 2007
Fifth Amendment Not Violated By New Hampshire Sex Offender Program by The First Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the New Hampshire DOC's Sex Offender Program (SOP) does not violate the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Wayne Ainsworth, along with a group of convicted sex offenders, became willing participants in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Fifth Circuit: Federal DNA Act Constitutional by On January 6, 2004 the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the collection of DNA samples from two Texas prisoners under the federal "DNA Act" did not violate the Fourth Amendment or infringe upon their constitutional rights. Jeffrey Groceman and Bradley …
Article • May 15, 2007
District Court Reversed; Failure to Allow Amendment Abuse of Discretion by The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the U.S. District Court, Colorado, holding that the district court's refusal to permit a Colorado state prisoner to amend his complaint was an abuse of discretion and, moreover, the complaint stated …
Supreme Court Holds Double Celling Not Unconstitutionally Cruel and Unusual by The U.S. Supreme Court held that the policy of "double celling" did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners in an Ohio state maximum security prison brought action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against state officials alleging that policy …
Article • May 15, 2007
Due Process Action States Claim by The U.S. Supreme Court held that a plaintiff's federal civil rights action alleging deprivation of procedural due process stemming from his admission to a Florida mental health facility on the strength of consent forms he signed while supposedly disoriented, heavily medicated and psychotic stated …
Article • May 15, 2007
Evidentiary Hearing Not Required To Terminate SSA Worker Disability Benefits by Evidentiary Hearing Not Required To Terminate SSA Worker Disability Benefits The U.S. Supreme Court held that an evidentiary hearing was not required to terminate Social Security worker disability benefits, and that the district court had jurisdiction to hear the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Excessive Account Deductions May State First Amendment Claim by The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals partly reversed dismissal of a Missouri prisoner's civil rights complaint alleging that a prison official was retaliating against him for filing lawsuits by deducting excessive amounts of money from his prison account. George Brown, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Failure to Administer Doctor's Treatment Plan States Eighth Amendment Claim by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a nurse's failure to administer treatment ordered by a doctor states an Eighth Amendment violation that is not entitled to a qualified immunity defense. David G. Boretti, a Michigan prisoner, was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissal Without Prejudice to Amend Requires Final Judgment if Amendment Not Filed to Invoke Appellate Jurisdiction by Dismissal Without Prejudice to Amend Requires Final Judgment if Amendment Not Filed to Invoke Appellate Jurisdiction The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held a district court must enter a final judgment before appellate …
Article • May 15, 2007
Federal Filed Rate Doctrine Preempts State Action Challenging Prisoner Phone Rates by The New Hampshire Supreme Court has held that the federal filed rate doctrine preempts, state causes of action for violation of the anti- monopoly statute and the Consumer Protection Act (CPA). This action was brought by friends and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Federal Parolee Not Entitled To Immediate Revocation Hearing by The U.S. Supreme Court held that a federal parolee imprisoned for federal crimes that he committed while on parole had no constitutional right to an immediate parole revocation hearing. Petitioner originally received a 10-year sentence for a rape committed on an …
Article • May 15, 2007
Federal Probationer Not Required To Give DNA For Prior Conviction by The U.S. Eastern District Court of California determined that taking DNA for a prior conviction violated the Fourth Amendment ban on illegal searches. Danny Miles was on federally supervised release in California for possession of a firearm by a …
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