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Brief • October 15, 2001
Hasan v. Contra Costa County, CA, Appeal Brief, Failure to Train Racial Discrimination, 2001 Nos. 01-15109,01-15448 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT SAEDHASAN, Plaintiff, v. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, et aI., Defendants/Appellants. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA …
Brief • October 15, 2001
Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards
Hasan v. Contra Costa Co, 9th Cir, CA, Appellate Brief, Attorney Fees, 2001
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Ninth Circuit Reverses Time-Barred Habeas Petition by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc , reversed a district court's dismissal of a federal habeas petition as time barred, and remanded the case to the district court to develop the record regarding whether the prisoner was entitled to a …
$80,000 Settlement in CDC Transsexual Suit by In August 2000, the State of California settled a claim from a transsexual former prisoner that her need for hormone therapy was ignored while incarcerated by agreeing to pay her $80,000. Torey Tuesday South, 40, began her trek through the California penal system …
Brutality Behind the Orange Curtain by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely The FBI began its second civil rights investigation of the Orange County, California, sheriff's department following the beating of a diabetic prisoner asking for food to lower his blood sugar. Michael Gennaco, head of the civil rights division of …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
Pelican Bay Policy Banning Internet-Generated Mail Upheld by The California Court of Appeal held that a policy adopted only at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) preventing prisoners from receiving through the US Mail any material that had been downloaded from the Internet was facially valid and reasonably related to legitimate …
Plata v. Davis, CA, Amended Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2001 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 PRISON LAW OFFICE DONALD SPECTER #83925 STEVEN FAMA #99641 SARA NORMAN#189536 General Delivery San Quentin, CA 94964 Telephone: (415) 457-9144 Facsimile: (415) 457-9151 McCUTCHEN, DOYLE, BROWN & ENERSEN WARREN E. …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
The Strangest of Bedfellows by Noel Brinkerhoff In 1988, a Chino prison guard was killed when a juvenile prisoner he was escorting to a Los Angeles hospital for medical treatment tried to escape. Like other prison guards killed in the line of duty, the veteran officer left behind a grieving …
Class Action Medical Neglect Suit Filed Against CDC by Alleging that the California Department of Corrections (CDC) violates the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment by providing seriously inadequate medical care to state prisoners, the Prison Law Office and the law firms Pillsbury Winthrop and McCutchen Doyle Brown …
Pelican Bay Guard's Conviction Upheld by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Jose Garcia was a guard at California's Pelican Bay prison. With his supervisor, Mike Powers, Garcia plotted with prisoner shotcallers to have convicted child molesters, sex offenders, and informants stabbed or beaten. The conspiracy ran from January 1994 to …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Private Jail Settlement Not a Consent Decree under PLRA by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The United States District Court, Eastern District of CA, held that a "private settlement" agreement to cap the El Dorado (California) County jail population was not a "consent decree" as defined in the …
Lifton v. City of Vacaville, CA, Trial Transcript, Police Deadly Force, 2001 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 1 ~. .•.... ~ FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 2 -"i~ ,·t,l.;'~: 3 ---000--- BEFORE THE HONORABLE DAVID F. LEVI, JUDGE 4 5 ---000--- 6 7 REBECCA LIFTON, et al. Plaintiffs, …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Custodial Rape of Female Prisoners Widespread in U.S. by Roger Smith Custodial Rape Of Female Prisoners Widespread In U.S. by Roger Smith American jail and prison officials sexually molest hundreds, and possibly thousands of women prisoners each year. According to a March 2001 report by Amnesty International USA, over 1,000 …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Continuing California's Prison Interview Ban by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely For the second year in a row, California Governor Gray Davis vetoed a bill aimed to restore news media access to prisoners. On Monday, October 2, 2000, Davis vetoed the bill, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists, which …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Bid to Regain Family Visits Fails in California by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On December 29, 2000, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district judge's order dismissing a lawsuit challenging prison regulations, which eliminated family visits for the majority of California prisoners. U.S. District Judge William Shubb …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Prisoner Defendants Entitled to Notice of Summary Judgment Requirements by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that pro se prisoner litigants who are being sued are entitled to notice from the court on the requirements of summary judgment to ensure the prisoner adequately responds to the moving …
Eight Prisoner Deaths in California Women's Prison by Silja JA Talvi Eight Prisoner Deaths In California Women's Prison Revive Concerns About Medical Care, Availibility Of Compassionate Release by Silja J.A. Talvi The deaths of eight female prisoners within a seven-week period at a California women's prison have sparked a new …
Brief • May 1, 2001
Morales v. Ventura County, CA, Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial, Police Shooting, 2001 1 2 3 PETER M. WILLIAMSON, Bar No. 97309 WILLIAMSON & ASSOCIATES 13915 Panay Way, Suite One Marina del Rey, California 90292 Tel: (310) 822-3377 Fax: (310) 821-7027 4 5 Attorneys for Plaintiff ANTHONY MORALES 6 …
California Legislative Committee Hearing Meets Behind Prison Walls To Hear Testimony From Female Prisoners by Silja JA Talvi by Silja J.A. Talvi It was anything but an ordinary California legislative hearing. On Wednesday, October 11,2000, behind the barbedwire grounds and multiple security checkpoints of Chowchilla's Valley State Prison for Women …
Brief • April 13, 2001
Lifton v. City of Fairfield, CA, Deposition of Don Cameron, 2001 DEPOSITION OF DON CAMERON UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA -000- REBECCA LlfTO~, individually and as successor In Interest to DORON LIFTON Deceased JONATHAN LIFTON~ RON LIFT6N, and DAPHNA WAKEFlt:LD, Plaintiffs, ,." BE IT REMEMBERED that, pursuant …
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