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Article • May 15, 2007
Forcible Administration of Antipsychotic Medication Doesn't Violate Due Process by The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in holding that state prison officials' forcible administration of antipsychotic medication to a prisoner did not violate the prisoner's right to due process. …
Indiana Prisoner's CAB Conviction for Tobacco Trafficking Supported by Evidence by The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana in denying habeas corpus relief to an Indiana prisoner convicted of tobacco trafficking in a prison disciplinary hearing. Tim Godby, an …
Tennessee: Punitive-Based Administrative Segregation States Claim by In this case involving the appeal of a disciplinary ruling, the Tennessee Court of Appeals held that because a prisoner's placement in administrative segregation appeared to be punitive, his petition for common law writ of certiorari stated a claim. Eric Woodruff, a prisoner …
Texas County Liable in Juvenile's Jail Suicide by A Texas federal District Court held that Harris County can be held liable in the suicide of a teenager at the County's Juvenile Detention Westside Command Center, known as Delta 3 Boot Camp. The juvenile had threatened on several occasions over his …
Article • May 15, 2007
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Severely Curtails Habeas Corpus by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has held that the state post- conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus under Article 11.07, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, is limited to matters that could not have been raised on direct …
WI Release Fund Can Be Used to Pay Filing Fee by A federal district court in Wisconsin held that a Wisconsin state prisoner transferred to a private prison in Tennessee cannot have funds from his release account transferred to his general trust account. The release account is created under a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Wisconsin: PLRA Does Not Apply to Out of State Prisoners by A Wisconsin appellate court held that a Wisconsin prisoner held at a private out-of-state prison or jail is not a "prisoner" as defined by Wisconsin's Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). First, the court determined that the definition of "correctional …
Article • May 15, 2007
5th Circuit Remands for Reassessment of Attorney Fees by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a prisoner's state assault and battery claim was not merged with his § 1983 claim, the district court erred in limiting attorney fees, and the county was liable for attorney …
§1983 Remedies Only Federal Law, Right to Witnesses at Hearing by After a New York state prisoner brought a §1983 action alleging constitutional violations at his prison disciplinary hearing, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York held: 1) The prisoner's civil rights were not violated by …
$4,000 Award to IN Jail Prisoner Placed on Suicide Watch by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana denied a motion by the Allen County, Indiana sheriff and two sheriff's deputies, defendants, for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) or a new trial. A former county jail prisoner …
$380,000 Award Against Louisiana Sheriff and Deputy Upheld in Jail Rape Case by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a U.S. District Court's award of punitive and compensatory damages to a plaintiff who was beaten and raped in jail. Plaintiff, a white male, filed a §1983 …
Alabama Sheriffs Entitled to Immunity in §1983 Actions by The U.S. Supreme Court held that Alabama sheriffs were officials of the state rather than the county and therefore entitled to immunity in §1983 actions. An Alabama prisoner who had been sentenced to death had his conviction overturned and subsequently brought …
BOP Guards Conviction for Beating Prisoner Affirmed by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction and sentence against a guard at the United States Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. Escort teams were moving prisoners from their cells to a conference room in order to conduct individual interviews about …
Buddhist Prisoner Retaliated Against; District Court Abused Discretion, Reversed by Buddhist Prisoner Retaliated Against; District Court Abused Discretion, Reversed The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, in a claim of retaliation made by a Buddhist prisoner against officials of the North …
Article • May 15, 2007
California Prisoner Has Right to Court Access, Child Custody and Visitation by A California appeals court reversed a superior court's order that denied a California state prisoner custody of his children and visitation with them, and which was done without allowing him to appear for hearings on the matter. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
Compensatory Damages Not Allowed for Value of Violated Rights by The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Sixth Circuit's affirmation of a district court's award of compensatory damages. A Michigan public school teacher brought suit against a school district under 42 U.S.C. §1983 upon suspension for his teaching methods. A jury …
Confinement in Strip Cells as Disciplinary Tool Unconstitutional by New York prisoners Mosher and Wright brought separate § 1983 actions, later consolidated, against a prison warden for Eighth Amendment violations stemming from their confinement in a strip cell." Strip cells are used for psychiatric observation; they are bare and have …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Appearance Governed by Fundamental Fairness by A Michigan prisoner appealed the trial court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum and his motion for leave to testify by deposition which effectively foreclosed him from obtaining a divorce. In Michigan, a judgment of divorce may not …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Orders Minor Child Visitation in NJ Jail by A federal court in New Jersey ordered that visits by minor children be allowed for pretrial detainees at the Passaic County jail in New Jersey. The court also ordered a special master to file a report on the adequacy of visiting …
Deputy Not Sheriff, Liable for Assault, Attorney Fees by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas awarded a jail prisoner $500 in compensatory damages, no punitive damages, and $2,500 in attorney fees plus costs in a case involving a deputy sheriff's assault on the prisoner. Donald Williams, …
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