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Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Ninth Circuit Holds Hawaii Prison Officials Entitled to Qualified Immunity when Calculating Release Dates in Accordance with State Law by In an interlocutory appeal, the Ninth Circuit reversed a Hawaii district court’s denial of qualified immunity to prison officials who, in apparent conformity with Hawaii state law, treated a prisoner’s …
Pennsylvania Prisoner’s $185,000 Jury Award Reduced to $75,005 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 7, 2011, a Pennsylvania federal judge issued an order reducing a prisoner’s jury award for destruction of legal materials to $75,005. The award had previously been reduced from $185,000 to $115,000. Andre Jacobs, a …
Ninth Circuit Rules Sheriff May be Held Liable for Violence in Los Angeles County Jails by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in a revised ruling that Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca could be held liable for his subordinates causing dangerous conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail …
8th Circuit Court of Appeals Dismisses Missouri Jail Failure to Protect and Medical Neglect Case by On December 23, 2008, William Holden filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against guards in the Marion County, Missouri Jail alleging failure to protect and failure to provide adequate medical treatment. This claim …
DC Prisoner's False Imprisonment Claims Survive Summary Judgment by A federal court in the District of Columbia (DC) refused to dismiss a former prisoner's claims that she was improperly confined 149 days past her sentence expiration date. On December 15, 2005, Eloise Wormley was sentenced to 12 months in prison, …
Appeals Court Reverses Summary Judgment in Malicious Prosecution and Evidence Concealment Case against Boston Police Department by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna In a well-reasoned opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has permitted a Section 1983 action against the Boston Police Department (BPD) to continue. James …
BOP's Motion to Dismiss Religious Discrimination Case Denied by A North Carolina District Court has denied the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) motion to dismiss prisoners Lascelles Somie and Oral Malcolm's complaint alleging that the BOP failed to permit them to exercise their Twelve-Tribe Rastafarian religion. The plaintiffs had claimed …
Florida Court Permits Female Prisoner's Lawsuit for Forced Sex with Guard to Go Forward by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna A Florida District Court has permitted parts of a lawsuit by a female prisoner for being forced into sex by a male prison guard to go forward, finding that questions …
Former Connecticut Prisoner's ADA and RA Complaint Survives Motion to Dismiss by Derek Gilna By Derek Gilna Former Connecticut state prisoner Richard Rogues' Section 1983 lawsuit for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act (RA) has survived a motion to dismiss filed by defendants, including …
Article • May 15, 2012
Maryland: Off-Duty Deputies Liable for Mass Purchase of Newspaper Critical of Sheriff on Eve of Election by In 2004, on remand from the Fourth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland held that neither qualified nor statutory immunity shielded off-duty deputies from liability for damages for making …
Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Case Involving Texas Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reluctantly affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a Texas jail suicide case. In April 2004, 23-year old Jamie Whitt was arrested on three misdemeanor charges and lodged in the Stephens County Jail. …
Former Puerto Rican Prisoner Wins Release but Loses § 1983 Action by Derek Gilna Former Puerto Rican Prisoner Wins Release but Loses § 1983 Action By Derek Gilna Angel Luis Feliciano-Hernandez, sentenced by a Puerto Rican court in 1981 to a "term of perpetual imprisonment for treatment" for a "record …
Alaska Scope-of-Employment Certification Reviewable; State Immune from Guards' Excessive Force by The Alaska Supreme Court held that the Attorney General's certification that Defendant prison guards were acting within the scope of their employment is subject to judicial review. The Court also held that the State was immune for a prisoner's …
Seventh Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Police Excessive Force and Supervisory Liability Suit Brought by Veteran Illinois Prison Guard by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of excessive force claims against an Illinois police chief. Illinois Department of Corrections guard David Backes is a veteran of the Persian …
Article • May 15, 2012
Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Tennessee Prisoner’s Medical Claim by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's dismissal for failure to state a claim, in a Tennessee prisoner's inadequate medical care suit. On June 26, 2004, Shelby County, Tennessee, detainee Robert Lee Barnett became ill when Nurse …
Brief • May 11, 2012
Cianfaglione v. Rogers et al, IL, Opinion, qualified immunity unreasonable strip search, 2012 2:10-cv-02170-MPM-DGB # 37 Page 1 of 17 E-FILED Friday, 11 May, 2012 12:13:00 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS URBANA DIVISION ANGELINA CIANFAGLIONE, Plaintiff, v. TERRY ROGERS, DEE BURGIN, …
No Qualified Immunity for Guard Who Failed to Protect Prisoner from Sexual Abuse by Brandon Sample On February 1, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of qualified immunity to a guard accused of failing to protect a vulnerable prisoner from sexual …
Oklahoma City Not Liable for Wrongful Conviction Resulting from Falsified Forensic Evidence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that Oklahoma City can not be held liable for the actions of disgraced forensic chemist Joyce A. Gilchrist, who was employed in the city’s …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
California: State Settles Prisoner’s Lawsuit for $10,000, then Delays Payment by In June 2010, Cion Adonis Peralta signed a Full Release of All Claims in a federal lawsuit he filed in 2005, alleging that officials at CSP-Lancaster had violated his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. In exchange for …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Connecticut District Court Finds ICE Agents Not Shielded from Bivens Liability; Suit Settles for $350,000 by Derek Gilna In a lawsuit brought by the Yale Law Clinic on behalf of Hispanics swept up in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in New Haven in June 2007, the U.S. District …
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