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Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Organizing, Protests
Misdemeanor Conviction for Protesting on Jail Property Constitutional by The United States Supreme Court has held that a conviction for trespass on jail property does not violate demonstrators' constitutional rights to free speech and assembly. Harriett Louise Adderley and 31 students of the Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Sex Offender Can Be Compelled to Admit Crimes for Entry to Prison Program by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prison program for sex offenders, which requires the prisoner to admit guilt to crimes convicted upon, does not violate the prisoner's rights to equal protection and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Secretary Error Allows for Late California Tort Claim by California's Third Appellate District has held that a trial court abused its discretion in denying a prisoner's motion for leave to file a late government tort claim. Before the Court was the appeal of Manuel Renteria, who sought to pursue a …
Article • May 15, 2007
California Sexually Violent Predator's Recurring Habeas Claims Ruled Not Moot, But Still Meritless by John Dannenberg California Sexually Violent Predator's Recurring Habeas Claims Ruled Not Moot, But Still Meritless by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that because the two-year interval between recurring civil commitment …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York AIDS Patient Jailed in Unsanitary Conditions Wins $1,300,000 by The Plaintiff, a 39-year-old man identified only as Jewell, was arrested by New York City police after a dispute with a tow truck driver in July of 1993. He was placed in a cell where he was exposed to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Prison Labor, Medical, Diabetes
Texas Diabetic Prisoner Blacks Out, Guards Not Deliberately Indifferent by Michael Coleman, a diabetic Texas state prisoner, passed out while working in the fields due to a blood glucose level of 23. He sued prison medical staff in federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that they were …
Deceased PA Prisoner's Medical Records Disclosable by Darlene Lucretia Joe was a Pennsylvania state prisoner at the Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center. Between 4/29/97 and 6/30/97 she requested medical care 15 times, to no avail. On 8/4/97 she died of cerebral herniation. Her estate sued the prison medical subcontractors (defendants), who …
Article • May 15, 2007
FL Prisoner's Suit Against Prison Health Care Providers Timely Filed by On February 8, 1996, Geraldine Seale, a Florida state prisoner, complained to the state Human Relations Commission (Commission) about the medical care she was receiving. The Commission didn't make a reasonable cause determination within 180 days as required by …
Article • May 15, 2007
Indigent NY Prisoner's Action Commenced When Clerk Received Pleadings by Cleveland Lovett, a New York state prisoner, was badly injured while trying to elude police in September of 2002. He was treated at Bellevue Hospital and Riker's Island until February 25, 2003. On April 2, 2004 Lovett mailed a medical …
Article • May 15, 2007
Montana Juvenile Prisoners' Files Disclosable for Purposes of Litigation by The plaintiffs were 16 Montana state juvenile prisoners. For litigation purposes, their lawyer requested from the Pine Hills Youth Correctional Facility (P.H.Y.C.C.) certain of the plaintiffs' personal records, including those regarding the use of pepper spray on the plaintiffs. P.H.Y.C.C. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Liability for Sheriff's Hiring Decisions by The United States Supreme Court held that a county is not liable for a sheriffs decision to hire a reserve deputy without adequate screening. While driving from Texas to their home in Bryan County, Okalahoma, Jill Brown (respondent) and her husband approached a police …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Due Process Hearing Needed In Prison Transfer by The Supreme Court ruled that a prisoner had no Constitutional right to remain at any particular prison. The case stems from a suit filed by a New York prisoner who was fired from his job as a law library clerk and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Non-Stenographic Depositions May Not Require Independent Operator by The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on mandamus review ordered a district court to allow the plaintiff party to take depositions by other than stenographic means. The plaintiff moved the district court, under Rule 30(b)(4), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Party in Civil Rights Case Not Entitled to Witness Fees, But Non-Parties Are by Party in Civil Rights Case Not Entitled to Witness Fees, but Non-Parties Are A federal district court in New York has held that, in a civil rights action, a pro se prisoner proceeding in forma pauperis …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Paying Taxes Not Entitlement to Vote by In an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a 42 U.S.C. §1983 action filed by a California State prisoner as frivolous. The suit sought the Registrar of Voters to permit registration to vote or return of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Qualified Immunity Not Applicable to Private Defendants by The U.S. Supreme Court held that qualified immunity from suit, with respect to government officials is not available to private defendants charged with § 1983 liability for invoking state replevin. In July 1986, Bill Cole sought to dissolve a cattle partnership with …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Prison Labor, Organizing
Prisoners Union Cannot Hold Meetings at a State Prison by The California Supreme Court held that pursuant to California Penal Code §2600 (CPC), prisoner's union meetings held inside the prison with "outside" members and representatives present a security risk. Thus, Prison Official's refusal to allow such meetings is justified. The …
State Law Creates Liberty Interest by The Supreme Court found that a state law gave a Pennsylvania prisoner a liberty interest in remaining in general population which could not be taken without due process. They ruled, however, that the limited actions taken by prison authorities constituted due process. After being …
Article • May 15, 2007
Stay of Action Must be Sought to Exhaust Administrative Remedies by The Supreme Court of Missouri has held that a prisoner is allowed to file suit against the Department of Corrections, or its employees, prior to exhaustion of administrative remedies providing the suit is filed within the statute of limitations. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
WA County Jails "Good Time" Policy Constitutional by WA County Jails "Good Time" Policy Constitutional The Washington State Court of Appeals held the Skagit County Jail's policy for credit of "good-time" does not violate a pre-trial detainee or a sentenced prisoner's right to equal protection. While awaiting a second trial …
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