Fields v. City of Philadelphia, PA, Amicus Brief, Civilian Recording of Police Officers, 2016 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Nos. 16-1650 & 16-1651 RICHARD FIELDS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et ano, Defendants-Appellees. AMANDA GERACI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et al., Defendants-Appellees. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On Appeal …
Fields v. City of Philadelphia, PA, Amicus Brief, False Arrest Video On-Duty Police, 2016 Case: 16-1651 Document: 003112450483 Page: 1 Date Filed: 10/31/2016 Nos. 16-1651 (lead), 16-1650 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT _________________ AMANDA GERACI, Plaintiff-Appellant v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et al., Defendants-Appellees _________________ …
Third Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Restraint Chair Case by Mark Wilson The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that a lower court did not follow controlling Supreme Court precedent when granting summary judgment to prison officials on a mentally ill prisoner’s restraint chair-related claim. Since childhood, Pennsylvania prisoner Leonard …
Gangwal v. Folster, PA, Reply in Support of Motion to File Amended Complaint, Excessive Force Leg Sweep, 2016 Case 1:14-cv-02002-JEJ-SES Document 50 Filed 09/29/16 Page 1 of 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA SUDHIR GANGWAL, Civil Action No.: 1:14-cv-02002-JEJ-SES (Filed: October 16, 2014) …
Ponzini v. PrimeCare Medical, Inc., PA, Judgment, Medical Negligence and Wrongful Death, 2016 Case 3:11-cv-00413-RDM Document 338 Filed 09/16/16 Page 1 of 2 THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA PETER PONZINI, ESQUIRE and MIRYEM BARBAROS, as Co-Administrators of the Estate of Mumun Barbaros, Deceased, Plaintiffs, …
US District Court Upholds Prisoner's Medical Suit against County and Healthcare Providers by On February 9, 2012 Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania upheld claims of deliberate indifference by individual defendants, vicarious liability of Correctional Medical Care, Inc. ("CMC"), and professional malpractice. Peter D'Agostino, a prisoner in the Montgomery County Correctional …
Appeals Court Strikes Down Stringent Sex-Offender Probation Conditions by Derek Gilna Charles Murray was sentenced to 95 months' imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, and as part of that sentence was required to fulfill "various special conditions of supervised release that, for example, require(d) him to …
Gangwal v. Folster, PA, Exhibit of Amended Complaint, Excessive Force Leg Sweep, 2016 Case 1:14-cv-02002-JEJ-SES Document 47-2 Filed 09/08/16 Page 1 of 9 Exhibit 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA MEENA GANGWAL, Executrix of the Estate of Sudhir Kumar Gangwal, Plaintiff, Civil Action …
Gangwal v. Folster, PA, Exhibit of Certificate of Grant of Letters, Excessive Force Leg Sweep, 2016 Case 1:14-cv-02002-JEJ-SES Document 47-1 Filed 09/08/16 Page 1 of 1 Exhibit 1 REGISTER OF WILLS Certificate of Grant of Letters No. 0116-0350 ESTATE OF SUDHIR KUMAR GANGWAL A/KIA SUDHIR GANGWAL Social Security No. 104-74-2107 …
Gangwal v. Folster, PA, Exhibit of Redlined Amended Complaint, Excessive Force Leg Sweep, 2016 Case 1:14-cv-02002-JEJ-SES Document 47-3 Filed 09/08/16 Page 1 EXHIBIT of 15 3 SUDHIR GANGWAL, : IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF COMMON PLEAS OF Plaintiff : ADAMS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA : vs. …
Gangwal v. Folster, PA, Motion to File Amended Complaint, Excessive Force Leg Sweep, 2016 Case 1:14-cv-02002-JEJ-SES Document 47 Filed 09/08/16 Page 1 of 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA SUDHIR GANGWAL, Civil Action No.: 1:14-cv-02002-JEJ-SES (Filed: October 16, 2014) Plaintiff, v. District Judge: …
Gangwal v. Folster, PA, Support of Motion to File Amended Complaint, Excessive Force Leg Sweep, 2016 Case 1:14-cv-02002-JEJ-SES Document 48 Filed 09/08/16 Page 1 of 5 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA SUDHIR GANGWAL, Civil Action No.: 1:14-cv-02002-JEJ-SES (Filed: October 16, 2014) Plaintiff, v. …
Supreme Court: Judges Who Were Significantly Involved in Cases as Prosecutors Must Recuse by There is a risk of bias that is impermissible under the Due Process Clause where the judge in a case previously had significant, personal involvement in a critical decision in the case while serving as prosecutor. …
Sexual Discrimination Suit Against Bureau of Prisons Settled by Christopher Zoukis A complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regarding sexual harassment, abuse and intimidation brought against the Bureau of Prisons has been settled. Lynda Kay Laurin, a Human Resource Specialist at Federal Correctional Institution Allenwood, Pennsylvania, filed her …
BOP Settles Reverse Discrimination Suit for $2,250 by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled a discrimination claim brought by Thomas R. Sniezek, a 48-year-old white male, in April 2003. Sniezek, a former associate warden at United States Penitentiary Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, brought an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint against …
Allegheny County Reaches $2.09 Million Settlement for Prisoner’s Death by A $2.09 million settlement was reached in a lawsuit stemming from the death of a prisoner who was denied medical care at Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County Jail. Derek E. Black, 28, was involved in an April 16, 2012 altercation with another …
Tainted BOP Chicken Sickens 300 Pennsylvania Prisoners by More than 300 prisoners at the U.S.P. Canaan in Waymont, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, fell ill of salmonella after eating "tainted chicken" used to make fajitas. Four of the 300 were ill enough to necessitate treatment at a local hospital's emergency room for …
Mass Pennsylvania Prisoner Strip Search Nets Each Prisoner $1,000 by Pennsylvania prison officials have agreed to pay twenty prisoners $1,000 each to settle a claim that they were illegally strip-searched. The complaint in the action concerned an incident that occurred on September 14, 2000, at State Correctional Institution at Albion. …
Pennsylvania Policy Requiring Control Number for Qualification as Legal Mail Unconstitutional by David Reutter Finding that no legitimate penological interest existed to support a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) policy that required a PDOC-issued control number be included on correspondence for it to qualify as legal mail, a Pennsylvania U.S. …
