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Article • May 15, 2007
Order Closing Missouri's Platte County Jail Affirmed on Appeal by The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a federal district court's order closing the Platte County Jail. Platte County Jail prisoners brought an action against the jail for violation of their Eighth Amendment right against cruel …
Article • May 15, 2007
Order Halting Sex Offender Registration Reversed by The Colorado Court of Appeals has reversed a district court's order that allowed a sex offender to stop registering. A former state juvenile probationer, C.C.V., petitioned a state district court to discontinue his duty to register as a sex offender two years after …
Oregon Protesters Awarded $845,000 in Excessive Force Actions by The City of Portland, Oregon has paid $300,000 in damages and $545,000 in attorney's fees to twelve protesters who brought excessive force actions against the Portland Police Bureau. On August 22, 2002, President Bush visited Portland. As a Republican fundraiser was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Paraplegic Granted Injunction Requiring Proper Medical Treatment by A Kansas federal district court granted a prisoner at the Kansas State Penitentiary a preliminary injunction requiring prison officials to provide him with proper medical treatment. The prisoner was confined at the Wyandotte County Jail, when a guard appeared and without warning …
Article • May 15, 2007
Paraplegic Prisoner's Medical Neglect Claim Upheld on Appeal by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the judgment of the U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee, in a lawsuit filed by Larry M. Leach, a paraplegic prisoner. Leach sued the Mayor and Sheriff of Shelby County …
Article • May 15, 2007
Parole Board Decision One Time Act That Fails to Toll Statute of Limitations by Parole Board Decision One Time Act That Fails to Toll Statute of Limitations The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held a parole board's setting of a parole date is a one time act and not a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Parole Hearing Does Not Estopp False Arrest Suit by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment, holding that the facts found at the plaintiff's parole hearing did not have collateral estoppel effect, and that a genuine issue of fact existed in excessive force …
Public Defender's Party Association Protected Activity by The U.S. Supreme Court has held that a public defender who is satisfactorily performing his job may not be terminated based upon political party affiliation. This action was brought by two assistant public defenders in Rockland County, New York who were issued termination …
Article • May 15, 2007
Racial Segregation in Kansas Jail Unconstitutional by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that racial segregation of prisoners at Kansas' Wyandotte County Jail was unconstitutional. The District Court found "assignment to one of the two tanks [an East tank and a West tank] is made upon a racial basis, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Racial Segregation in Nebraska Prison Unconstitutional by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that racial segregation at the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex was unconstitutional. All facilities at the prison were integrated but one. That cell block housed 50 prisoners who objected to living with or housing with blacks. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Release-Dismissal Agreement Bars Future Suit by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Northern District of Indiana district court's order granting summary judgment, which held that a release agreement dismissing criminal charges in exchange for release from liability in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action was valid and barred …
Retaliatory Transfer for Assisting Prisoners with Litigation States Claim by The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a California prisoner stated a claim of retaliation that should not have been dismissed on the lower court's summary order before process was served on the defendants. The plaintiff alleged …
Review Board Required for Minnesota Sex Offender Treatment Facilities by The Supreme Court of Minnesota held that the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services was required to establish review boards for the state's Sex Offender Program (SOP) treatment facilities. Appellants, sex offenders civilly committed to SOP facilities as sexually …
Article • May 15, 2007
Rhode Island Prisoner Awarded $2,000 for Fractured Wrist by On April 2, 1996, a jury in Providence County, Rhode Island awarded $2,000 to a state prisoner who was injured when a platform collapsed beneath him. Prisoner Lucas Tiberio, 20, was lifting weights when the platform on which he was seated …
Article • May 15, 2007
Muslim Literature Bar Reversed, Medal Ban Upheld by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that denying prisoners access to a newspaper entitled Muhammad Speaks" was violative of the First Amendment, but it was within prison officials' discretion to impose restrictions on medals worn around the neck. This action …
Article • May 15, 2007
"Absurd" California Child Visiting Regulation Survives Challenge - For The Moment by John Dannenberg "Absurd" California Child Visiting Regulation Survives Challenge - For The Moment by John E. Dannenberg The California Department of Corrections' CCDC) recently announced child visiting regulation 15 CCR § 3173.1, which prohibits any minor from visiting …
EMSA Not Liable for Ohio Prisoner's Restraint-Related Injury by In this case involving an Ohio prisoner whose fingers required amputation due to allegedly improperly applied restraints, the Ohio Court of Appeals, Tenth Appellate District, affirmed a jury's verdict in favor of EMSA Correctional Care, a for-profit health care provider. Plaintiff …
Injunctive Relief Reversed Due to Lack of Personal Stake by The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a judgment granting injunctive relief in a §1983 action against Philadelphia police. Respondents brought a §1983 action against Philadelphia officials, including the Mayor and the Police Commissioner, alleging a pervasive pattern of illegal and unconstitutional …
Ionscan Test Reasonable Cause to Require Urinalysis Test by Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeals held that reasonable suspicion of use of drugs existed to require a Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) guard to submit to a urinalysis test. This action is an appeal of a final order of the …
Article • May 15, 2007
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Jail Prisoner's Dismissed Medical Claim Vacated and Remanded by The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court's dismissal of a former jail prisoner's claim against a county jail in Minnesota. David Elijah Bowers, Sr., a prisoner at Waupon Correctional Institution, was a prisoner at the Milwaukee County …
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