Skip navigation

Search

71828 results
Page 2120 of 3592. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 2116 2117 2118 2119 2120 2121 2122 2123 2124 ... 3588 3589 3590 3591 3592 | Next »

Parolee has Right to Confront Witnesses of Denied Violations Despite Admitting Other Violations by Parolee has Right to Confront Witnesses of Denied Violations Despite Admitting Other Violations The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held a parolee has a right to cross- examine witnesses at a parole revocation hearing on charges …
Article • May 15, 2007
Parolee Negligent Supervision DUI Death Suit Settles for $6,000 by Tracy Joe Enoch-Jeune was convicted on four separate occasions of DUI or possession of drugs. Upon release from jail the final time, she was supposed to report to a probation officer within 24 hours. She never appeared and remained at …
Article • May 15, 2007
Pending Grievance Does Not Satisfy PLRA Exhaustion Requirement by The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding a federal district court's dismissal of a jail prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit, held that administrative remedies are not exhausted so long as a grievance is "pending." Lawrence Winder was a pretrial detainee …
Article • May 15, 2007
Pennsylvania: $5,442,000 Award For Failure To Treat Ruptured Spleen by On November 11, 1994, a jury in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, awarded $5,442,000 to a prisoner whose ruptured spleen went untreated. On March 4, 1987, while imprisoned at the Philadelphia House of Detention, plaintiff, 37, suffered a fall at the prison …
Placing Prisoner on Modified Grievance Access Held Constitutional Under Circumstances by Placing Prisoner on Modified Grievance Access Held Constitutional Under Circumstances The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Michigan federal district court's dismissal of a state prisoner's claim that his civil rights were violated when prison officials placed …
PLRA Applies to Private Prisons by Upholding a Tennessee federal district court, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled as meritless and frivolous a Wisconsin prisoner's suit against the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Jerald Treat, a Wisconsin prisoner incarcerated at the CCA-owned and operated Whiteville Correctional Facility (WCF) …
Article • May 15, 2007
Polygraph Results Admissible In Disciplinary Hearings But Additional Evidence Required by Polygraph Results Admissible In Disciplinary Hearings But Additional Evidence Required The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that while polygraph evidence could be used in prison disciplinary hearings, polygraph evidence alone was insufficient to find a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prison Can Deduct All Wages from Prisoner to Satisfy Debt by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming a federal district court in Michigan, held that withdrawal of all funds from a prisoner's account to satisfy court debts did not violate due process, did not block access to the …
Prison Disciplinary Conviction Creates Property Interest by The U.S. District Court for the State of New Jersey held that a state prisoner was entitled to due process in determining the amount of restitution owed in connection with a prison disciplinary conviction: Alexander Artway, a NJ state prisoner, was charged with …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Stated Civil Rights Claim but not RICO Claim by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated part of a California federal district court's dismissal of a prisoner's civil right action, holding that the prisoner failed to state a claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time, Parole
Massachusetts Good Time Deducted From Parole Eligibility Date by The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that good conduct time for state prisoners must be deducted from their parole eligibility date (calculated as a fraction of the minimum sentence imposed by the judge) and deference was not to be given …
Article • May 15, 2007
$277 Awarded for Costs in Washington Records Disclosure Suit by A Washington Superior Court judge, Thurston County, awarded Airway Heights Correctional Center prisoner Donald W. Miniken, $277.39 in costs in litigating a Public Disclosure Act lawsuit. In January 1998, Miniken requested the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) to provide him …
Municipalities and Local Officials "Persons" Under § 1983 by Municipalities and Local Officials "Persons" Under § 1983 The U.S. Supreme Court held, inter alia, that both municipalities and local government officials being sued in their official capacity were "persons" for § 1983 purposes. Female employees of two New York City …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York: Prison Failed To Follow Up Cancer Treatment, Prisoner Awarded $210,000 by New York: Prison Failed To Follow Up Cancer Treatment, Prisoner Awarded $210,000 On July 7, 2002, a state court of claims in Syracuse, New York, awarded a prisoner $210,000 after concluding that prison medical personnel had negligently …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Awarded $26,500 For Fall From Top Bunk by On July 23, 2002, a judge awarded a New York prisoner $24,500 for injuries suffered when she fell from a top bunk she should not have been assigned to. New York state prisoner Carmen Cirino had an injured leg …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Right To Notification Within 30 Days Of Disciplinary Appeal by Michael Loveland, a prisoner at the Newport Correctional Facility (NCF), appealed a disciplinary decision to the Orleans Superior Court after the superintendent, Kathleen Lanman, failed to respond to his disciplinary appeal within 30 days of the date the appeal …
Article • May 15, 2007
Nominal Damages Upheld in Excessive Force Case by The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury award of only nominal damages in a case involving excessive force by New York State prison guards. Vincent Van Ness, a prisoner in custody of the New York Department of Correctional Services …
Article • May 15, 2007
NV Jail Commissioners Liable For Raped Prisoner by The U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada held that a triable issue existed when a prisoner was raped while in custody. Christopher Warner was in custody of the Washoe County Jail when he was assaulted and raped by fellow prisoners. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ohio Prisoners' Mail-Order Subscription Suit Held Not Frivolous by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, vacating a federal district court's sua sponte dismissal, held that a suit brought by Ohio prisoners in custody of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) regarding DORC's withholding of certain mail-order magazines and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Parkway Not Proper Place for Body Cavity Search by The Eastern District Court of Virginia determined that a body cavity search while on the George Washington Parkway violated the Fourth Amendment. Arrion Ford was traveling down the George Washington Parkway in his car when a police officer stopped him because …
Page 2120 of 3592. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 2116 2117 2118 2119 2120 2121 2122 2123 2124 ... 3588 3589 3590 3591 3592 | Next »