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PLN Nazi Guard Censorship Suit Remanded for Injunctive Relief by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit, in an unpublished opinion, affirmed in part and reversed in part a Washington federal district court's grant of summary judgment to Washington Department of Corrections officials who censored the May, 1999, issue …
Article • May 15, 2007
Due Process Required Before Prisoners' Wages Seized by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that prisoners are entitled to due process before their wages are seized and prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity for seizing prisoners' wages without due process. The court also upheld denial …
Rules Modeled on Ten Commandments Violate Establishment Clause; Sheriff Denied Qualified Immunity by A federal court in Arkansas held that jail rules modeled after the Ten Commandments violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. It also held that jail officials were not entitled to qualified immunity. Andy Lee was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Qualified Immunity May Not Be Pled For the First Time in a Motion For Reconsideration by Mark Farquhar, a California state prisoner, prevailed on summary judgment in a federal district court on a claim that prison medical staff had been deliberately indifferent to his medical needs. Dr. William Cain, a …
School Officials May Be Liable for Teacher Choking Student by At 251: The Supreme Court has encouraged lower courts in appropriate circumstances "to determine first whether the plaintiff has alleged a deprivation of a constitutional right at all," before reaching the question of whether the right was clearly established at …
Article • May 15, 2007
NM Jailers Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Not Releasing Prisoner by The plaintiff obtained an order stating that he should be released from the Taos County Adult Detention Center; however, by then he was at the Bernalillo County Detention Center. Officials at the latter were entitled to qualified immunity for …
Article • May 15, 2007
SD Prison Officials Not Liable for Suicide by The decedent committed suicide. About 10:30 that morning, he asked his case manager if he could make a phone call, but he wasn't on the authorized list for that day. He made an unauthorized call to his ex-wife and said he was …
County May be Liable for Hogtying Death of Arrestee by Hog-tying an obviously mentally deranged suspect constituted excessive force, though the individual defendants were entitled to qualified immunity because it was not clearly established that such conduct was unlawful. However, defendants are not entitled to immunity under state law because …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Dismisses Kansas Beating Suit by The plaintiff alleged excessive force but did not respond to defendants' summary judgment motion, though he filed a verified complaint with affidavit attached. Defendants' version, not specifically controverted by the plaintiff, is that they used necessary force to subdue an actively resisting prisoner. The …
Beating Claim Exhausted When Defendants' Don't Respond by The plaintiff alleged that he was twice assaulted by the Quick Response Team; on neither occasion was he resisting, and on one he was in restraints. The defendants claimed they used necessary force to subdue him. At 458: ". . . [P]laintiff …
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 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Kentucky Jail Guards Liable for Beating Prisoner to Death by The plaintiff's argument that there is a municipal custom of failing to follow the jail's use of force policy is not supported by evidence of a single incident which violated the policy or by evidence that there were 30 or …
Prosecutor, Daughter Immune for Trying to Elicit Jailhouse Confession by The plaintiff was accused by his daughter of sexually molesting and murdering her childhood friend. His daughter then visited him in jail to try to induce him to confess, allegedly with the knowledge of the prosecutor. He refused to talk …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Qualified Immunity for Holding WI Prisoner Past Release Date by The plaintiff alleged that he was held 65 days beyond his release date as a result of a miscalculation, despite his advising the defendants of their mistake and requesting that they correct it. At 720: Incarcerating a prisoner beyond …
Jail/Police Immune for Not Treating Prisoner with Spinal Injury by The plaintiff was a passenger in a car involved in a high speed chase; an officer threw him on the ground while he was handcuffed, causing a permanently disabling spinal injury. He spent three days in jail, where a detention …
Article • May 15, 2007
Second Circuit Skirts Qualified Immunity Analysis by The Second Circuit Qualified Immunity tap dance resumes in this case. The court "ordinarily" begins by determining whether a constitutional right was violated, then decides whether the right was clearly established. But (166) "where we normally apply this two-step test, where we are …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Qualified Immunity Despite Lack of Case Law for False Arrest by A motel guest parked his large truck in front of his room, which the management did not approve of, and refused to move it. The manager called a deputy sheriff who, when the guest did not answer his …
Police Liable for Hob Tying Death of Arrestee by The decedent was arrested after a high-speed chase and after he tried to flee on foot. He was then sprayed with pepper spray and hog-tied (ankles tied to wrists) and died of positional asphyxia. The municipality did not have a written …
Article • May 15, 2007
Kicking Suspect for Drugs Illegal by The court finds factual issues barring summary judgment with respect to the plaintiff's complaint of excessive force during arrest, and finds the defendant officers not entitled to qualified immunity with respect to kicking him for 53 seconds as he lay on the ground. At …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Qualified Immunity for Suicide of Utah Prisoner by The police captain who arrested the decedent was told by several people that he was a suicide risk; he said he had contemplated suicide but decided against it; the captain said he concluded the decedent was not a suicide risk. However, …
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