Sand v. Lorain County, OH, Settlement, Jail Beating, 2013 RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS This Release and Settlement Agreement entered into this 'J_ 5 day of September, 2013 by and between Jordan Sand (hereinafter "Plaintiff") and Lorain County, Phil R. Stammitti and Marlon Taylor (hereinafter "Releasees") is to evidence …
Sand v. Lorain County et al, OH, Settlement Agreement, jail beating, 2013 RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS This Release and Settlement Agreement entered into this 'J_ 5 day of September, 2013 by and between Jordan Sand (hereinafter "Plaintiff") and Lorain County, Phil R. Stammitti and Marlon Taylor (hereinafter "Releasees") …
Sexual Harassment and Retaliatory Termination Nets $275,000 by A female Ohio jail guard was awarded $275,000 for sexual harassment and wrongful, retaliatory termination. Michelle Hendricks began working as a jail guard for the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office in 1998. In January, 2002, a coworker handcuffed her to a chair in …
Piskura v. Taser International, Inc., OH, Order on Admissibility of Expert Reports, Taser Death, 2013 Case: 1:10-cv-00248-HJW-KLL Doc #: 182 Filed: 07/31/13 Page: 1 of 29 PAGEID #: 5400 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO WESTERN DIVISION MARY PISKURA, et al, Plaintiffs v. Case No. 1:10-cv-248-HJW TASER INTERNATIONAL, …
Taser Committee Report Hamilton County Ohio Chiefs of Police 2013 Committee Findings for CEWs: A REPORT TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AND CREATION OF POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CONDUCTED ELECTRICAL WEAPONS WITHIN A LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATION November 6, 2013 COMMITTEE MEMBERS Committee Members Joe Boyatt, Lieutenant …
The Financial Realities of Ohio's Pay-to-Stay Jail Policy ACLU 2013 Adding It Up The Financial Realities of Ohio’s Pay-to-Stay Jail Policies Introduction The United States is the largest incarcerator in the world, and Ohio ranks eighth in terms of prison population size.1 Many of the individuals incarcerated are low-level, nonviolent …
Perry Township OH TASER Policy 2013 PERRY TOWNSHIP 2013 TASER POLICY D. PROCEDURES FOR DEPLOYING THE TASER Neuro - Muscular Incapacitation Device (X-26 Taser): Consistent with the Perry Township Police Department’s policy of using an action response continuum the Taser may be used as an intermediate weapon. The Taser can …
Muslim Prisoners Challenge Ohio’s Denial of Halal Meals; Pork Producers Protest by Joe Watson In 2011, Abdul-Hamead Awkal, II, 52, and Cornelius Causey, 35, both Muslim prisoners, filed separate lawsuits against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC), arguing that the ODRC’s refusal to provide halal meals infringed on …
Additional Attorney's Fees Allowed in Ohio Voter-Registration Suit by Derek Gilna The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) instituted a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 case challenging the 2006 Voter ID law, which resulted in consent orders in 2006 and 2008. A similar action by the Service Employees International Union …
Ohio Supreme Court: Due Process Not Satisfied by Procedure Requiring Parties to Monitor Internet for Property Foreclosure Sales by In September 2012, the Ohio Supreme court held that it was insufficient for due process purposes to serve constructive notice on a party via the Internet, where the party has a …
Ohio Appellant Wins Mandamus Order Disclosing Attorney Fees Statements by Derek Gilna Appellant Jean A. Anderson won an appeal of a judgment denying her copies of certain itemized billing statements for attorneys service rendered to Vermillion, Ohio, overturning a lower-court decision that had sided with the city’s argument that the …
Ohio Court Stays Prisoner Suit Pending Supreme Court Action by Derek Gilna Ohio state prisoners filed a Section 1983 civil rights class-action case in federal court against the state parole board, alleging reverse discrimination in the granting of parole. The Parole Board moved for and was granted a stay since …
US Court of Appeals Finds for Judge in Gordian Knot of Interests by The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed in August 2012 the district court’s judgment that Judge James DeWeese, presiding in a state action against Edwin Griffeth, a supervised prison releasee, overstepped his authority …
Ohio Supreme Court Affirms Denial of Cincinnati Enquirer's FOI Request by The Cincinnati Enquirer's request for access to certain records of the Cincinnati Police Department pursuant to R.C. 149.43, the Public Records Act, has been denied on right to privacy grounds by the Ohio Supreme Court. Affirming an appellate court …
Sixth Circuit Explores Excessive Force Legal Twilight Zone; Finds Fourth, not Fourteenth Amendment Controlled by Mark Wilson On June 29, 2010, the Sixth Circuit held that a lower correct incorrectly applied the Fourteenth Amendment, rather than the Fourth Amendment to resolve a pre-trial detainee’s excessive force claim. Since the qualified …
Sixth Circuit Remands Wrongful Death Case to Reduce Punitive Damage Award by Derek Gilna Dorothy V. Freudeman was an elderly lady in poor health who was a resident of the Landing of Canton, (Ohio), an assisted living facility. While there she was apparently mistakenly given anti-diabetic medication, which resulted in …
Pay-to-Stay Jail Programs Growing by Due in part to stressed government budgets, “pay-to-stay” fees imposed on prisoners in county jails are becoming more prevalent. Two counties, one in Ohio and the other in California, are now collecting incarceration costs from detainees. After Keller Blackburn became prosecutor for Athens County, Ohio, …
Ohio Supreme Court Sides with Defendant in Sex Offender Registration Case by Derek Gilna On May 8, 2012, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of Wesley Lloyd, who was convicted of a sex offense in Texas and then moved to Ohio in 2005. He was arrested and convicted in …
