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Article • May 15, 2007
Counsel Cannot Direct Witness Not to Answer Questions by A federal district court in Georgia granted a plaintiff's Motion to Compel answers to deposition questions where counsel advised the witness not to answer the questions. The Court held there was no claim of privilege, and the questions were not harassing …
Court Grants New Trial to Uneducated Pro Se Litigant by A federal district court has granted a new trial to a pro se litigant, who quit school in the tenth grade and displayed during trial a lack of legal knowledge and limited skills, after the jury entered judgment for the …
Defendants Must Bear Costs of Depositions Sought by Indigent Prisoners; and Attorney-Client Privilege Waived by Defendants Must Bear Costs of Depositions Sought by Indigent Prisoners; and Attorney-Client Privilege Waived On remand from the United States Supreme Court, the Federal District Court of New York held that, generally, a party seeking …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissal of Complaint Seeking Vegetarian Diet and Religious Beads Reversed by Florida's First District Court of Appeal has reversed a trial Court's dismissal of a complaint seeking injunctive relief requiring prison officials to provide a prisoner to be served a religious diet and to possess religious beads. The prisoner was …
Article • May 15, 2007
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Fla. Mandamus Petition Challenging DR Must be Filed Within 30 Days of Grievance Denial by Florida's First District Court of Appeal has held that a prisoner's filing of a petition for writ of mandamus, rather than one for certiorari, is the proper remedy to challenge a disciplinary sanction. The Court …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Application of Florida's Indigency Statute to Collateral Criminal Proceedings by No Application of Florida's Indigency Statute to Collateral Criminal Proceedings The Florida Supreme Court has held that Florida's Prisoner Indigency Statute (PIS), §57.085, Florida Statutes, does not apply to collateral criminal proceedings. PIS was enacted to reduce the filing …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Visitation Type Restriction for Possession of Marijuana by The New York Supreme Court held that the state's prisoners could not be restricted to non-contact visitation because a disciplinary hearing finding of being in possession of marijuana on the compound. The prisoners had received 180 to 270 days of non-contact …
Article • May 15, 2007
NY Mentally Jail Ill Prisoner Beaten By Guard Wins $500,000 by Plaintiff, a 33-year-old mentally ill man identified only as Donovan, was repeatedly beaten by a guard named Gemelli at the prison in Nassau County, New York. His ribs and one vertebra were broken. He sued Gemelli and Nassau County …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ohio Prisoner-Medical-Co-Pay Law Retroactive by Joseph Woods, an Ohio state prisoner, is serving a prison sentence imposed before 1996. In 1996 Ohio Rev. Code § 5120.021 went into effect, requiring prisoners requesting medical attention to pay a $3 co-pay. When Woods was charged the co-pay in 2003, he sued prison …
PA Jail Immune from Suit in Medical Services Contract Case by Correctional Medical Care, Inc. (CMC) entered into a contract with MHM Services, Inc. (MHM) to jointly bid for a health care contract at a prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MHM later had secret meetings with the city of Philadelphia and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington Juvenile Dependency Records Not Subject To Disclosure Under PDA by The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) filed a dependency action in state court regarding Shanon Deer's children The DSHS refused Deer's request for certain dependency records, so Deer filed an action to compel their disclosure under …
Article • May 15, 2007
OH Guards Not Responsible for Assault on Prisoner Unless They Knew the Assault Might Occur by OH Guards Not Responsible for Assault on Prisoner Unless They Knew the Assault Might Occur On February 21, 1999, Carl Ford, an Ohio state prisoner, was in his cell at the Ross Correctional Institute …
Article • May 15, 2007
Fourth Circuit Discusses Standard of Review in Prisoner Assault Cases by Prisoner assault cases are governed by a deliberate indifference standard and not a negligence standard, and the two standards are not the same thing. The question is whether the warden acted "obdurately or wantonly." In making the last statement, …
Article • May 15, 2007
GA Prisoners Seeking to Appeal the Denial of a Motion to Intervene Must Apply for Interlocutory Review by GA Prisoners Seeking to Appeal the Denial of a Motion to Intervene Must Apply for Interlocutory Review Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS) was awarded a contract to provide health care to prisoners …
MI Prisoner's § 1983 Action Dismissed for Claiming Only Emotional Injury by MI Prisoner's § 1983 Action Dismissed for Claiming Only Emotional Injury Bobbie Adams, a Michigan state prisoner, claimed the Melanic Palace of the Rising Sun as his religion. Melanics were designated as a security threat group in the …
Article • May 15, 2007
NY Prisoner Allowed to Challenge Disciplinary Sanction That Didn't Lengthen His Sentence Via § 1983 by NY Prisoner Allowed to Challenge Disciplinary Sanction That Didn't Lengthen His Sentence Via § 1983 Donald Griffin, a New York state prisoner, was found guilty of drug use, based on an allegedly flawed urinalysis, …
Article • May 15, 2007
PA Long-Arm Statute Reaches Out-of-State Civil Rights Violations in TransCor Suit by PA Long-Arm Statute Reaches Out-of-State Civil Rights Violations in TransCor Suit On May 5, 2000, Jerry Irons, an AIDS patient was arrested in Maryland on an Ohio warrant. On May 17, TransCor, a company that transports prisoners, took …
Article • May 15, 2007
Tape Recorded Depositions' Intent: Cost Efficiency by A federal district court in Illinois has held that the intent of Fed.R.Civ.P. 30(b)(4) is to make a significant contribution to the efficient and economic administration of justice. The Court outlined several principles for promulgating guidelines to safeguard the non-stenographic record. First, allocation …
Article • May 15, 2007
Tape Recorded Depositions Useful to Prisoners by A federal district court in Washington has held that in addition to making the required two recordings of a witness's deposition, the requestor may make an additional unofficial recording for use as a work product. This procedure may be useful to pro se …
Article • May 15, 2007
Telephonic Depositions Useful to Prisoners by A federal district court in North Carolina has held that Fed.R.Civ.P. 30 (b)(7) should be liberally construed to allow a telephonic deposition of a witness. The plaintiff sought such a deposition because she was unable to afford the cost to do a face-to-face deposition …
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