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District Court Partly Upholds Prisoner's Excessive Force, Medical Negligence Claims by A federal district court in the Western District of Virginia has partly upheld a prisoner's civil rights claims against Virginia prison officials. Discovery was ordered in the case. Tyrone Shelton is a Virginia prisoner at Red Onion State Prison …
Article • May 15, 2007
Additional Evidence in New York Medical Claim Allowed in Part by The United States District Court, Southern District of New York, has granted in part a New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) prisoner's motion to submit additional new evidence in a long-running suit over inadequate medical care. Ronald Davidson …
Balisok Doesn't Bar Excessive Force Claims by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated a district court's dismissal of a prisoner's complaint of excessive force and denial of procedural due process while ruling that reversal of his prison disciplinary convictions was not a prerequisite to relief. Robert …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: State Statutes, Zoning
City Can Limit Vermont State Prison Population by The Vermont Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a city may limit the number of prisoners held in a state prison located within that city's limits. In 1992, the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) applied to the City of South Burlington for a …
Prisoner's Out-of-Time Medical Neglect Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed by A U.S. District Court denied a county's motion to dismiss a prisoner's medical neglect claims and granted relief to the prisoner under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) by reinstating an action that earlier had been dismissed without prejudice. In August …
Article • May 15, 2007
Denial of Motion to Dismiss Not Appealable by The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the denial of a motion to dismiss for failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) is an interlocutory order that is not subject to appeal. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Delay in Providing Surgery to Florida Prisoner States a Claim by A prisoner survived defendants' motion for summary judgment after the court found a genuine issue of material fact might exist as to whether a delay in treatment demonstrated deliberate indifference to a serious medical need. Seven prisoners from the …
New York Prisoner Has Right to Witnesses at Disciplinary Hearing by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that prisoners have the right to due process at disciplinary hearings. A prisoner at the Fishkill Corrections Center in New York filed a civil suit claiming that his right …
Article • May 15, 2007
California Supreme Court Holds Prisoners' Legal Mail Confidential by The Supreme Court of California held that a rule used by the California Department of Corrections (DOC) that allowed prison officials to read attorney-prisoner incoming mail was inconsistent with statutory privilege for that type of correspondence. Also, the court held that …
Article • May 15, 2007
Oregon Prisoner Has Right to Medication by Oregon Prisoner Has Right To Medication The United States District Court in Oregon denied a motion for summary judgment in a suit filed by a prisoner who claimed that he was denied medication for a mental disorder. Glen S. Page, a prisoner at …
Article • May 15, 2007
Florida Son of Sam Law Upheld by The Florida District Court of Appeals for the First District, affirmed the Bradford County Circuit Court's decision to impose a lien against Danny Rolling, a convicted serial murderer, and his former wife (London), for proceeds of a book, art work, and autographs related …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Temporary Injunction Before Conviction Under Florida Son of Sam Statute by The First District Court of Appeals of Florida held that the Bradford County Circuit Court erred in temporarily enjoining the payment of proceeds earned from the reenactment of a crime, even though there had not yet been a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Census
Pennsylvania Prisoners Counted as Residents of States in Which Prison Is Located by Pennsylvania Prisoners Counted as Residents of States in Which Prison is Located The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania did not err when …
Fired Guard Eligible for Unemployment Benefits by A Louisiana appeals court upheld unemployment benefits for a fired Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) guard. While working at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, the guard witnessed another guard speaking offensively to a black prisoner. The observing guard wrote a letter addressing …
Jail to Prison Transfer Orders Subject to PLRA Provisions by The Fifth Circuit court of appeals has held that injunctions which order the state to transfer prison-ready prisoners from a county jail to the state prison system and to refuse to accept parole violators at the jail to avoid overcrowding …
Attorney Awarded $1.50 in Fees in Nominal Damages Case by The First Circuit court of appeals has reduced an attorney fees award from $3,892.50 to $1.50; the fees were awarded to an attorney who helped a pretrial detainee win an award of nominal damages in an excessive force case. The …
Sixth Circuit Remands Hadix For Termination on Hearing by The Sixth Circuit has reversed the district court's order "terminating" the Hadix consent decree because the order did not comply with the requirements of the PLRA on termination orders, 18 U.S.C. § 3026(b). This case involves a class action civil rights …
Confiscation of Legal Files Excused Failure to Exhaust by A federal district court in New York held that the confiscation of a prisoner's legal files established cause and prejudice sufficient to overcome procedural default for failing to exhaust administrative remedies. In 1998, prisoner F. Lee Hinebaugh filed a federal petition …
Article • May 15, 2007
Tenth Circuit Holds COA Required on All State Habeas Appeals by The Tenth District Court of Appeals has denied a certificate of appealability (COA) to, and dismissed the appeal of the habeas corpus petition of a Wyoming state prisoner housed in a private Colorado prison. In so ruling, the appeals …
Prison Transfer Claims Must Be Raised Under § 1983 by Prison Transfer Claims Must be Raised Under § 1983 In a sharply-worded opinion, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied in forma pauperis (IFP) status and certificates of appealability (COAs) to habeas corpus petitions dismissed by federal district courts as …
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