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Judicial Immunity Does Not Bar Injunctive Relief or Attorney Fees by The U.S. Supreme Court held that judicial immunity did not preclude issuance of injunctive relief against a Virginia state magistrate nor did it bar the award of attorney fees against her in a civil rights action. Respondents were arrested …
Article • May 15, 2007
U.S. Fourth Circuit Upholds Censorship of Prisoner Magazine by Virginia state prisoners brought suit alleging First Amendment violations due to denial of publication of one issue of their state funded magazine. The magazine is organized and edited by prisoners but subject to pre-publication approval by prison authorities. A U.S. district …
Summary Judgment Inappropriate in Arizona Religion Case by An Arizona state prisoner filed suit in U.S. district court. alleging First Amendment violations by prison authorities. The prisoner was not able to attend Jewish services, had no access to Jewish writings and was not afforded a kosher diet. Prison officials filed …
Ban on Interprison Travel for Religious Services Overturned by Jewish Michigan state prisoners filed suit alleging First Amendment violations in response to a ban on inter-prison travel which effectively denied them the right to participate in Sabbath services and a Passover Seder. A U.S. district court held that the prisoners …
Article • May 15, 2007
Retaliation Claim Legitimate, Res Judicata Claim Not by A New York state prisoner brought a § 1983 action against prison authorities alleging retaliation for previous legal action. Prison officials introduced motion for summary judgment asserting principle of res judicata. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Searches, Videotaping
Intercepted Conversation of Jail Visitor Not Protected by The United States Supreme Court held that a state court conviction, for refusing to answer questions interposed by a state legislative committee, did not present a federal due process question, under the circumstances of the case. Although the Court declined to explicitly …
Administrative Exhaustion Not Required Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by The United States Supreme Court held that it was not necessary for a prisoner to resort to state administrative remedies before seeking relief under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 for the violation of his constitutional rights. In this case, Pennsylvania …
Article • May 15, 2007
Denial of Religious Publications States a Claim by The Unites States Supreme Court held in a brief one-paragraph opinion that a lawsuit filed by an Illinois state prisoner under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that he was denied permission to purchase certain religious publications and other privileges enjoyed by other …
Article • May 15, 2007
PLRA Controls Hourly Rate of Attorney Fees by The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio held that the maximum hourly rates for attorney fees in prison litigation is controlled by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), and the rate for Ohio had not been increased by the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Attorney Fees Allowed Under § 1988 in State Court Suits by The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that 42 U.S.C. § 1983 includes violations of federal law as well as constitutional violations, and that attorney fees could be awarded for such § 1983 violations of federal law under the Civil Rights …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
New York Jail Good Time Statute Held Constitutional by The U.S. Supreme Court held a New York good-time statute to be constitutional. New York prisoners brought action against state prison officials alleging violation of the Equal Protection Clause. Under § 230(3) of the New York Correction Law, prisoners were not …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoners Have No Liberty Interest in Prison Housing Assignment by Prisoners Have No Liberty Interest In Prison Housing Assignment The U.S. Supreme Court held that prisoners do not have a liberty interest in their prison housing assignments. A Massachusetts prisoner brought an action in federal district court alleging deprivation of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Attorney Fee Award, 30 Day Punitive Isolation Limit Upheld by The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision wherein plaintiff prisoners' attorney fees were levied against the Arkansas Department of Correction and limits placed on time spent in punitive isolation. After a U.S. district court found conditions in the …
Due Process Clause Not Implicated by Guard's Negligence by The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Federal Appeals Court decision that the Fourteenth Amendment does not afford protection to a person in custody when injury results from the negligence of a state official. After injuring himself in a fall caused by …
Supreme Court: No Right to Counsel or Cross Examination in Disciplinary Hearings by Baxter v. Palmigiano consolidates two separate actions, 74-1194 & 74-1187, in which state prisoners filed civil rights suits as a result of prison disciplinary procedures. Action no. 74-1194 was filed by prisoners in California's San Quentin prison …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoners Have Right to Notice of Rules by The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that prisoners in custody of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) do have right to advance notice of rules and orders promulgated by DOCS, DOCS' prison wardens, or prison supervisors before the rules …
Article • May 15, 2007
Beard Length Restriction Upheld, Prior Ruling Reversed by The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing its prior ruling in the same case, upheld a rule by the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) restricting prisoners' beards to one inch in length. Yevgen Fromer, a observant Orthodox Jew, sued …
Article • May 15, 2007
Tennessee Disenfranchisement Law Upheld by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal district court's dismissal of a case claiming that the Tennessee Voting Rights Act of 1981 violated the Federal Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982 and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Charles …
JNOV New Trial Denied in Indiana Jail's Suicide Watch Policy by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana denied motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) and for new trial in a case involving a jail's suicide watch policy. James L. Bird was confined in the Allen …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissed Suits by Prisoners Liable for Filing Fees Under §1915(g) by Dismissed Suits by Prisoners Liable for Filing Fees Under §1915(g) The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a state prisoner filing a civil rights complaint that is subsequently dismissed under the "three-strikes provision" of 28 U.S.C. § …
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