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Jail Closed Due To Living Conditions, Failure To Comply by The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ordered the closing of a county jail due to unconstitutional living conditions. Prisoners confined in the 102-year-old Allegheny County Jail (Pennsylvania) brought suit against state and county authorities to alleviate …
Article • May 15, 2007
Mentally Ill PA Prisoner Forced to Accept Medical Treatment to Prevent Death by The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held a prisoner may be force fed to prevent him from starving to death. The prisoner, who was being held at the Fairview State Hospital for treatment of borderline personality Disorder, stated …
Prisoners Have Right to Informed Consent and to Refuse Medical Treatment by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held prisoners have a right to be informed of their medical treatment and may refuse that treatment; that the instituting of disciplinary action as retaliation for refusing treatment is unconstitutional, and the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Private Prison State Actor for Liability Purposes by In an unpublished ruling, the court of appeals for the Tenth circuit upheld dismissal of a New Mexico prisoner's claim that he was unlawfully transferred from a state prison to one run by a private, for profit company. Judge McKay concurred with …
Article • May 15, 2007
Punitive Damages Cannot be Imposed Against Municipality by The U.S. Supreme Court held a municipality may not have punitive damages imposed against it in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. This action was initiated against city commissioners and the City of New Port, Rhode Island, after the commissioners violated a …
Request at Trial Seeking Funds for DNA Expert Too Late; BOP Guard Convicted of Rape by Request at Trial Seeking Funds for DNA Expert Too Late; BOP Guard Convicted of Rape The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of a Puerto Rico Federal Bureau of Prison guard's conviction …
Right to Assist Other Prisoners Includes Right to Possess Pleadings by The California Supreme Court held that a prisoner's right to assist other prisoners in legal matters includes the right to possess other prisoner's legal pleadings or briefs, but does not include the right to correspond with prisoners at other …
Saginaw County Jail Practices Unconstitutional by A Michigan federal district court held that practices and procedures, affecting pre-trial detainees at the Saginaw County Jail are unconstitutional and enjoined them. This is a class action suit that did not challenge the general physical conditions, but the practices and procedures of the …
Article • May 15, 2007
San Quentin's AC Unit Conditions Unconstitutional, Tear Gas, Restraints, no Exercise Enjoined by San Quentin's AC Unit Conditions Unconstitutional, Tear Gas, Restraints, no Exercise Enjoined The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held prisoners are entitled to fresh air and exercise, they cannot be subject to wearing neck chains over long …
Article • May 15, 2007
Second Circuit Addresses Time Claim Accrues by The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in part and vacated in part a district court order granting summary judgment to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and various individual defendants for false arrest. Clifton Morris was arrested in 1990 by …
State Cannot Seize § 1983 Award to Satisfy Incarceration Costs by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held a state may not seek reimbursement of costs for incarceration by seizing monetary damages awarded in a 42 U.S.C. §1983 action. A Missouri state prisoner was awarded $1 nominal damages and $3,000 …
State Law No Immunity for Attorney Fee Awards by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a California District Court's order awarding interest on attorney fees previously awarded, additional fees expended to enforce the first award, and requiring the State Controller to issue an award to the State Treasurer …
Article • May 15, 2007
Abstract Advocacy of Violence Protected Speech; Gang Conviction Reversed by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an Arizona District Court's grant of habeas corpus invalidating a conviction for participating in street gang activity. Jerry Dean McCoy is a former California gang member that was convicted by an Arizona state …
Alabama Prison Conditions Unconstitutional by A district court in Alabama declared the conditions of confinement in Alabama state prisons unconstitutionally cruel and unusual in a class- action suit. The court ordered that: (1) prison populations be reduced to design capacity; (2) isolation prisoners be single-celled with not less than 40 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissal for Failure to Exhaust Remedies Vacated by The U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, vacated and remanded a district court dismissal, under 42 U.S.C. §1997e(a), of a Pennsylvania state prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit. Larry L. Greer sued Pennsylvania prison officials under 42 U.S.C. §1983 claiming violations of his …
No Liberty Interest in Virginia Jail Work Release by The court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the Riverside Regional Jail Authority in Virginia is a municipal agency and not a branch of state government, therefore they are to entitled to Eleventh amendment immunity from suit. The court …
California Prisoner's Death From Untreated Tonsilitis Results In $725,000 Settlement by California Prisoner's Death From Untreated Tonsilitis Results In $725,000 Settlement On March 30, 1999, California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG) and two doctors agreed to pay a total of $725,000 to settle claims against them arising from a prisoner's death …
Article • May 15, 2007
Correspondence Regulation Must be Reasonable and Necessary to Advancement of Purpose of Imprisonment by Correspondence Regulation Must be Reasonable and Necessary to Advancement of Purpose of Imprisonment A district court in Wisconsin entered an injunction enjoining prison officials from restricting correspondence between a prisoner and his sister-in-law. Morales v. Schmidt, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissal with Prejudice Vacated; Plaintiff Ordered to Replead by The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated dismissal with prejudice of a New York State prisoner's medical claims and instructed the district court to dismiss without prejudice to the filing of a second amended complaint. Fernando Pratts, a New York …
Article • May 15, 2007
Fifth Circuits Upholds Pugh v. Loch Injunction by The Fifth Circuit upheld the district court's ranting of relief to ensure Alabama state prisoners reasonably adequate food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, necessary medical attention, personal safety, and recreational opportunities. The Fifth Circuit vacated the district court's instructions that all prisoners be single …
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