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Article • May 15, 2007
Los Angeles Lump Sum Settlement Policy Enjoined by The plaintiff was entitled to a preliminary injunction on her claim that, as to her case, the county's policy of offering only lump sum settlements (i.e., covering damages and attorneys' fees) violated federal law. The Supreme Court's decision in Jeff D. v. …
Change in BOP Work Release Policy Upheld by The Department of Justice's policy stating that prisoners cannot be sent to community corrections centers until the last 10% of their sentences is a reasonable interpretation of the statute; the abrupt change in policy was exempt from the notice and comment requirement …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Orders New Trial on Damages Only in Excessive Force Case by A jury found for the plaintiff in an excessive force case but awarded only nominal damages. The court says there is no reasonable basis for the nominal award, and grants a new trial limited to damages. The undisputed …
Article • May 15, 2007
Name Calling Suit Dismissed by The plaintiff's complaint that a prison employee called him a liar and a vexatious litigant with a morally deviant character is not actionable under the Federal Tort Claims Act because the statute exempts libel and slander claims from its waiver of sovereign immunity. The plaintiff …
Disabled Prisoner's Handcuffing Suit Proceeds to trial Under RA by The plaintiff alleged that he was injured when prison staff ignored an order to handcuff him in front because of a medical problem with his shoulder, which he said resulted in dislocation of his shoulder. The plaintiff alleged a violation …
Suit by Mentally Ill NY Jail Prisoners Dismissed by Several plaintiffs alleged that they were subjected to over-medication with psychotropic drugs and denial of timely psychiatric care, timely prescription drug administration, adequate staffing of observation holding cells, adequate therapeutic psychiatric care, and discharge planning and treatment plans. The plaintiffs do …
Article • May 15, 2007
BOP Work Release Injunction Vacated as Moot by The plaintiff was notified he would be transferred out of a community corrections center pursuant to the Department of Justice's abruptly announced policy change prohibiting assignment to such facilities except for the last 10% of a prisoner's sentence. He obtained a preliminary …
Article • May 15, 2007
Preliminary Injunction Granted in BOP Work Release Suit by The plaintiff took a plea with the expectation based on past practice that he would serve his sentence in a halfway house; the probation office so recommended to the sentencing judge, who adopted the recommendation. The Department of Justice then decided …
Article • May 15, 2007
RLUIPA Found Unconstitutional by Sixth Circuit by The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act violates the Establishment Clause because it favors religious rights over other fundamental rights without any showing that religious rights are at any greater risk of deprivation. It is not necessary to avoid an Establishment Clause …
Expert Witness Rate for Discovery Reduced by Compensation to an expert for time spent in responding to discovery includes a reasonable amount of time preparing for a deposition. Here, 3.5 hours was reasonable for a review of medical records more than a year after the expert prepared his report (no …
SICK ON THE INSIDE: Correctional HMOs and the Coming Prison Plague by By Wil S. Hylton When David Hannah walked into a small office on the second floor of the Moberly Correctional Facility in Moberly, Missouri, last fall, carrying his belly like a hundred-pound sack of sand, the staff knew …
Article • May 15, 2007
District of Columbia is "Suable Entity" Under 42 U.S.C. §1983 by District of Columbia is "Suable Entity" Under 42 U.S.C. §1983 The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.C.) held that the district can be sued under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Twenty-three D.C. prisoners at the Lorton Reformatory …
133 Prisoners Killed in Dominican Republic Prison Fire by A fight between rival gangs for control of a Dominican Republic prison resulted in a fire that killed 133 prisoners. Prisoners caused the blaze by setting ablaze their pillows and sheets. Attempts to rescue them were thwarted by a jammed door. …
$1,500 Paid in False WA DOC Disciplinary Action by Thomas B. Armstrong III, a telemarketer clerk at Washington State Penitentiary, was accused of losing a wrench and consequently was given a disciplinary report and placed in segregation. Two weeks later, he was released from segregation and the charges were dropped. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Sexual Predation Rampant At FMC-Carswell; Another Employee Convicted by By Michael Rigby A pair of semen-stained sweatpants has led to the conviction of former prison guard Michael Lawrence Miller, making him the seventh employee of the Federal Medical Center for women in Carswell, Texas, to be convicted of sexually abusing …
Article • May 15, 2007
California Guards Assigned Word Puzzles by California Guards Assigned Word Puzzles to Satisfy Training Requirements California State Assembly Member Rudy Bermudez, himself a member of the powerful prison guards union (CCPOA) while on leave from his prison job to serve elective office, sharply criticized the practice of solving word puzzles …
Article • May 15, 2007
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No Immunity for School Official Taping Second Grader's Head to Tree by "The facts are not complicated." A school vice principal taped a second-grade student's head to a tree as punishment, releasing him after five minutes when a fifth-grade student said she didn't think he ought to be doing that. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Welcome to Hell: Letters and Writings from Death Row by Jan Arriens, Northeastern University Press, 255 pages. 1997 Reviewed By Yuri Holmes Death can arrive at any time. It can strike at anyplace. When pondered, death promotes fear in even the blackest of hearts. When allowed, it devours the human …
Article • May 15, 2007
Abusive deposition tactics frustrate the truth-finding process in litigation. What are the proper limits of these objections? by Abusive deposition tactics frustrate the truth-finding process in litigation. What are the proper limits of these objections? It was the end of a long day of depositions in a tense medical malpractice …
No Liberty Interest in Sex Offender Classification by A prisoner plaintiff said he had no internal procedure available to challenge his sex offender classification. Defendants said that the grievance system permitted classification matters to be aired. The court decides the question in favor of defendants and dismisses for non-exhaustion, noting …
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