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Federal Parole Officials Not Entitled To Absolute Immunity by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a district court erred in dismissing a parolee's claim against probation and parole officials and that the parole officials were not entitled to absolute immunity. Lawrence Wilson, a federal parolee, …
Article • May 15, 2007
$24,000 Settlement Recommended for Disabled Los Angeles Probation Officer by On March 10, 2005, the General Litigation Division for Los Angeles County, California, recommended settling a disabled county probation officer's lawsuit for $24,000. The suit alleged physical discrimination and retaliation. Gregory Miller, a probation officer for the Los Angeles County …
$55,503 Settlement for Barefoot California Prisoner by On December 27, 1999, San Francisco County, California, settled for $55,503 a prisoner's federal lawsuit that alleged he was denied footwear for three months while in the county jail and that he was treated with deliberate indifference by jail medical personnel after his …
Article • May 15, 2007
$90,000 Settlement for Alabama Prisoners Raped by Jail Guards by In June 2002, the City of Homewood, Alabama, paid a total of $90,000 to settle with two unidentified women who claimed they were forced to provide sexual favors to guards while imprisoned at the city jail. The plaintiffs, Jane Doe, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Utah: $490,000 Verdict for Untreated Hypertension, Vision Loss, Renal Failure by On November 25, 1992, a Utah jury awarded $490,000 to a state prisoner who suffered vision loss and renal failure because prison medical personnel failed to treat his hypertension. While imprisoned at the Utah State Prison, the plaintiff, 30, …
New York: Prisoner Raped In County Jail Awarded $250,000 by On September 24, 1997, a man who was raped while imprisoned in the Oneida County (New York) Jail settled his lawsuit against the county and the Utica City Police Department for $250,000. Plaintiff, an 18-year-old male, was imprisoned in the …
Administrative Remedy Exhaustion Rule Restricted by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has limited the rule that prisoners must exhaust all administrative remedies before filing a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. 1997e(a). The …
Article • May 15, 2007
PLRA Not Applicable In Habeas Cases by The United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA), 28 U.S.C. § 1915, did not apply to habeas corpus petitions filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Mahamadou Sillah, a native …
Allegation Of Interference With Grievance Completion Precludes Summary Judgment by The United States District Court for the Western District of New York held that a prisoner had not exhausted his administrative remedies pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA) in one claim and that issues of fact …
Fact Issues Regarding Alternative New York Grievance Procedure Precludes Summary Judgment by Fact Issues Regarding Alternative New York Grievance Procedure Precludes Summary Judgment The United States District Court for the Western District of New York held that summary judgment of a prisoner's civil rights claim against New York prison officials …
Article • May 15, 2007
Nondisclosure Of Government Records Not Justified By FOIA by The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that certain records withheld by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was not properly exempted under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Kieth Maydak, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Fails To Show Retaliation, Deliberate Indifference by The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida entered summary judgment against a prisoner's § 1983 action alleging deliberate indifference and retaliation by a prison nurse practitioner (N.P.). Walter Pate, a Florida state prisoner, was diagnosed as having HIV, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Plaintiffs' Summary Judgment Motion Denied In Strip Search Case by The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held in a § 1983 action challenging a city's strip search policy that the city's claims were not collaterally estopped by state law, it's strip search policy was …
Virginia Jail Acted Under Color Of State Law For § 1983 Purposes by Virginia Jail Acted Under Color Of State Law For § 1983 Purposes The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held that a jail had acted under color of state law for purposes of …
Deceased Michigan Prisoner's Estate States Eigth Amendment Claim by The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan held that the estate of a prisoner who allegedly died as a result of indifference to his medical needs sufficiently stated an Eighth Amendment claim and that individual defendants were …
Article • May 15, 2007
DC Detainees Strip Searched After Receiving Release Orders State Claim by The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.C.) held that plaintiffs, prisoners suing the D.C. Jail for performing strip searches on them when returning to the jail after receiving their release orders, had stated a valid …
Washington State Civil Commitment Statute Constitutional by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Washington State's Community Protection Act of 1990 (CPA) did not violate the double jeopardy or ex post facto clauses of the U.S. Constitution. In 1994, Petitioner Andre Young sought federal writ of habeas corpus …
Article • May 15, 2007
Retroactive Withholding of Good Time Upheld by The Kansas Court of Appeals upheld the retroactive withholding of a prisoner's good time credits for disciplinary sanctions imposed prior to the award of the credits at issue. In 1998 and 1999, Derrik W. Davis received two disciplinary convictions but did not have …
Kansas SVP Verdict Dismissed for Untimely Trial by The Kansas Supreme Court held that failure to try a person alleged to be a sexually violent predator ("SVP") within the statutorily prescribed time period divests the trial court of jurisdiction over the SVP petition, requiring dismissal with prejudice. In April 2000, …
Article • May 15, 2007
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Alaska Superior Courts May Not Grant Furloughs Under Criminal Rule 35(b) by The Alaska Court of Appeals held that superior courts may not use their authority to modify sentences under Criminal Rule 35(b) to grant furloughs to prisoners, but may use that authority to impose a term of periodic imprisonment. …
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