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Suit Challenging WI Civil Commitment Conditions Dismissed by The plaintiff, committed involuntarily as a sexually violent person, challenged various institutional practices. The plaintiff's complaint that he was required to disclose his history of sexual assaults, charged and uncharged, before he could be eligible for the main treatment program and be …
Article • May 15, 2007
AL Control Unit Ban on Publications Not Moot Or Ripe by The defendants prohibited administrative segregation prisoners from receiving publications by subscription. When sued, they agreed to allow a subscriptions to newspapers and magazines up to a total of four. However, they put in their regulation an apparent limitation to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Upholds Kicking Handcuffed Prisoner on Ground by The plaintiff alleged that as he was being escorted in restraints, he tripped over an officer's foot, an officer hit him in the head with her keys, and the officers kicked and beat him while he was on the ground. He was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Perp Walk Suit States Claim by The plaintiff alleged that he was subjected to a "perp walk" in that he was instructed to stand on the steps of the police station and pull a jacket over his head for the benefit of Fox News. The Fourth Amendment's protection "does not …
11th Amendment Bars Prison Guard's FLSA Suit for Unpaid Work by The plaintiff prison staff members sued under the Fair Labor Standards Act alleging that they were forced to do unpaid work at the beginning and end of their shifts. Their claim, even though framed as an individual capacity claim …
Article • May 15, 2007
PLRA Three Strikes Statute Held Unconstitutional by PLRA Three Strikes Statute Held Unconstitutional The court holds that the three strikes provision unconstitutionally restricts court access unless read to affect only non-constitutional claims. At 957: "Although the federal government has a legitimate interest in deterring the filing of frivolous and malicious …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Damages, Sentencing, Parole
Pro Se Parole Suit for Damages Dismissed by The plaintiff claimed that he was held in prison too long. The parole agent defendant is granted summary judgment. At 613: ". . . [T]he law does not impose damages liability for a Section 1983 violation on an individual acting in her …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Liberty Interest in Security Classification by The plaintiff complained of his security classification and the process for assigning it, but classification isn't atypical and significant and there is therefore no liberty interest under Sandin. The possible subsequent consequences of his classification (e.g., that he might be treated as a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Individual Capacity Claims Can Be Inferred From Complaint by Whether a plaintiff sued defendants in their individual or official capacities is determined by a "course of proceedings" test. The court disingenuously denies that it has applied a rigid rule that capacity must be spelled out explicitly or it will be …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Service
Police Not Properly Served Despite Government Employee Saying So by Police officers were not served properly when process was delivered to a place other than their place of business, even though the government employee who accepted service said that she was authorized to do so. This sort of mistake does …
Article • May 15, 2007
Class of Disabled Medicaid Recipients Decertified by At 811: A class representative must possess the same interest and suffer the same injury as the class members in order to be typical under Rule 23(a)(3). . . . The typicality requirement may be satisfied despite substantial factual differences, however, when there …
Article • May 15, 2007
Door Slamming Suit Dismissed by The Indiana plaintiff complained that an guard slammed a food service slot on his hand. The guard said the plaintiff tried to throw trash through the opening, that he didn't know the plaintiff's hand was in the opening, and it was an accident. The defendant …
§ 1983 Or Bivens Required When Suing Post Office For Lost Property by The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has found the United States immune from a tort action over a prisoner's property lost by the Postal Service. Peter Georgacarakos, a federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …
Previous Convictions And Serious Difficulty Controlling One's Actions Sufficient In SVP Determinatio by Previous Convictions And Serious Difficulty Controlling One's Actions Sufficient In SVP Determination A California State prisoner claimed due process violation when the court failed to instruct a jury that they had to find him "dangerous beyond his …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Costs
Cost of Prosecuting Prisoner Crimes In Pennsylvania Prisons Must Be Paid By State by Cost of Prosecuting Prisoner Crimes In Pennsylvania Prisons Must Be Paid By State The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed an appellate court ruling that the State must reimburse counties for prosecution costs related to crimes committed …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing
Detention While Awaiting Re-sentencing Is Still Term Of Imprisonment Under IAD by Detention While Awaiting Re-sentencing Is Still Term Of Imprisonment Under IAD The Washington State Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner awaiting re-sentencing after violating the terms of a previous sentence is still serving a term of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ninth Circuit Orders Reconsideration Of Victim Presence At Entire Trial Under CVRA by Ninth Circuit Orders Reconsideration Of Victim Presence At Entire Trial Under CVRA On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the U.S. Government requested an order allowing certain …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Suicides, Police, False Arrest
$2.4 Million Awarded In District of Columbia Jail Suicide by In 1982, a 32 year old District of Colombia (DC) man drove his car into a utility pole after which he was arrested and incarcerated in a DC jail for driving under the influence of alcohol. The man committed suicide …
Altercation Suit Brought By Prisoner Backfires; $250,000 Awarded to Guard by Virginia state prisoner Lament Douglas brought a § 1983 suit against prison guard J. McCarty for an altercation which left both parties injured. The Court granted remittur and awarded $250,000 to McCarty on his counterclaim. Douglas' motion for a …
Article • May 15, 2007
$26,000 Awarded In Washington Jail Suicide Suit by In May 1997, the Superior Court of Washington awarded $26,000 to the estate of a prisoner who committed suicide in the Kent city jail. The estate asserted that despite being on suicide watch, the prisoner, a 37-year-old male, was left unattended for …
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