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Article • May 15, 2007
Hispanic Guard States Discrimination Claim by A Hispanic correction officer's allegation that her white supervisor frequently used racial epithets, frequently glared at her, often dumped trash in her work area, defaced her locker and filled it with trash, made physically inappropriate contact with her (i.e., bumped her hard), refused to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Failure to Protect Claim Fails by The plaintiff complained that, while a detainee, he was housed with a convict of known violent propensities who injured him. At 1078: ". . . [T]he overwhelming weight of persuasive authority holds that unless the state has an intent to punish, or at least …
Prosecutors Immune for Seizing Arrestees Prosthetic Leg by The plaintiff was arrested. His leg prosthesis was confiscated as evidence (it had a bullet hole in it). The prosecutor refused to return it. At trial, both parties used the prosthesis as evidence. The judge declined to order the prosthesis returned after …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Jail Not Liable in Suicide Case by The decedent committed suicide in jail and his estate brought state tort and federal constitutional claims. Under Virginia law, an adult detainee who hanged himself committed common law suicide, and the estate could not recover on wrongful death and gross negligence claims unless …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ill Fitting Jail Clothes Claim Dismissed; Beating Claim Remanded by The plaintiff alleged that he was given a jail jumpsuit that was too long and that caused him to trip and fall downstairs, and that medical personnel tried to move him while his foot was still caught between the stairs, …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Judicial Immunity for Expelling Person from Court Grounds by The plaintiff was issued trespass orders barring him from state courthouses and grounds after he parked a van bearing unflattering comments about one of the judges near a courthouse. The district court earlier granted a preliminary injunction against enforcement of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Black Prison Guards Discrimination Suit Dismissed by The plaintiff, an African-American correction officer, was reprimanded while a probationary officer. That action was not sufficiently adverse to support a Title VII suit, and his claims of disparate treatment with respect to white staff fail because they were not probationary and therefore …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Skeletal Injury
Back Injury Treatment Suit Dismissed by The plaintiff suffered from a degenerative disc condition resulting in intense pain; the defendants provided only medication and bed rest as treatment. The plaintiff's back problem was a serious medical need. However, there is no showing of deliberate indifference, since the plaintiff was seen …
Article • May 15, 2007
Lack of Interpreter at Some Hearings Upheld by The Spanish-speaking plaintiff, who had a lot of disciplinary charges, received an interpreter when he asked for one, but he didn't always ask. The magistrate judge found that he understood English enough to understand the nature of the proceedings and to respond …
Article • May 15, 2007
Police Not Liable for Arrestees Post Surgery Injury by The plaintiff, who had had bowel resection surgery five days previously, was arrested in the hospital and taken to jail. She asked if she could back into the van and sit on the floor and was refused. When she climbed into …
$282,500 Awarded to Elderly Arrestee for Tight Handcuffs by The elderly plaintiff was arrested and handcuffed and complained that the handcuffs were too tight and hurt her hands and that she was handcuffed to bars. The court analyzes her claim under Bell v. Wolfish, does not cite Hudson v. McMillian, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Town Enjoined from Banning Games by The village passed an ordinance that prohibited playing games in public places, including streets, sidewalks, schoolyards, parks, and bodies of water, and cited parents for "parental irresponsibility" when their children disobeyed the ordinance. The village then repealed the ordinance after being preliminarily enjoined. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
Administrative Exhaustion Required for Title VII Claims by The plaintiff complained of sexual harassment under Title VII. At 241-42: A federal district court may only properly consider claims that were not administratively exhausted if the conduct subsequent to the EEOC charge is "reasonably related" to the claims raised in the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Felony Murder Convict Can't Sue Police for Shooting Him by Under Heck, a convict who was shot by the police during arrest and who was convicted of felony murder for provoking the police to shoot his crime partner could not pursue a § 1983 claim for excessive force insofar as …
Article • May 15, 2007
Free Speech Protects Right to Hire, Consult with Counsel by At 324: "The right to hire and consult an attorney is protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech, association and petition. . . ." "[T]he First Amendment prohibits the state from interfering with collective action by individuals …
Article • May 15, 2007
CMS Liable as State Actor For Denying HCV Care in NJ by The plaintiff complained about his medical care, reciting a long and tortured history of his treatment and non-treatment for Hepatitis A, B, and C, and rheumatoid arthritis that may or may not have been caused by it. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
MA DOC Refuses to Process Civil Rights Grievances by The practice of what is grievable is shown to diverge from the written policy. At 77-78: From the proceedings that transpired below on remand, it appears that the Massachusetts Department of Corrections had no grievance procedure available for complaints of the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: PLRA, Filing Fees (PLRA)
Multiple Prisoner Plaintiffs Can Split Filing Fee by In a multi-plaintiff case, defendants moved to make each plaintiff pay the entire filing fee, relying on Hubbard v. Haley. The court points out that Hubbard doesn't support their position, since it holds that the PLRA repeals the joinder provisions of the …
BOP Prisoners Bunk Injury Dismissed Under FTCA by The plaintiff fell out of a bunk bed and injured his knee. He had an order to be placed in a lower bunk but didn't tell anybody about it. The order was in the prison computer but the responsible employee didn't look …
Article • May 15, 2007
Summary Judgment Denied to Jail Guards Who Killed Mentally Ill Prisoner by The decedent died after a use of force in jail. He said on admission that he had a history of mental illness and was on psychotropic medication "for rest"; though the jail usually obtained medical records for inmates …
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