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Article • May 15, 2007
Alabama Prisoners Injured By Unhealthy Living Conditions Settle For $53,000 by Eight prisoners injured by unhealthy living conditions at the Loxley Community Work Center settled their claim for $53,000. The prisoners had alleged multiple injuries, including one who suffered dehydration and a rash. In their lawsuit, filed in Mobile County, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Georgia $892,138 Settlement For Stroke/Brain Damage Caused By Cops by In March 1996, the County of Decatur, Georgia, agreed to pay $892,138 to a man who claimed he was assaulted by deputies while imprisoned in the county jail and suffered a stroke and brain damage as a direct result. Following …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Court Awards $33,000 For Saw-Related Hand Injury by In August 1997, a New York court of claims awarded $33,000 to the estate of a prisoner who lacerated three fingers on his left hand while using a table saw as part of his work assignment at the state prison. …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Awarded $70,423 for Fractured Femur in Football Fall by In August 1997, a court of claims in Albany, New York, awarded $70,423 to a state prisoner who fractured his right femur on the prison's recreation yard. The injury occurred in September 1992 when the prisoner tripped over …
Arkansas Field Death Suit Dismissed by The decedent died of heat exhaustion on his first day on the hoe squad (on November 6, mid-afternoon temperature 72 degrees). Although overweight, he had been medically cleared for the work detail; there were hourly breaks for rest, water, and smoking; there was no …
BOP Hernia Suit Dismissed for Non Exhaustion by The plaintiff complained of delay in hernia surgery but did not exhaust administrative remedies. His argument that the remedy doesn't provide damages was rejected in Booth v. Churner. His claim that he was denied the necessary forms is rejected because he filed …
Doctors Can Be Held Liable in Heat Death of Obese Mental Patient by The decedent, an obese diabetic suffering from hypertension with a heart condition with abnormal EKG readings, was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital where he took psychotropic medications. He died on a day with 90 degree heat …
$2,350,000 Settlement in Florida Jail Prisoner's Restraint Chair Death by The prisoner in this case was 39 years old when he was arrested in Florida's Osceola County for aggravated assault with a firearm and discharge of a firearm in public. During the incident leading to his arrest, the prisoner was …
Article • May 15, 2007
$3,115,000 Settlement in Negligent Release of Paranoid Schizophrenic Prisoner by After being arrested by California's Glendale City police, the 36 year-old chronic paranoid schizophrenic in this case was taken to the LA County Jail. Glendale police had an official written policy that they will not hospitalize mentally ill persons arrested …
Article • May 15, 2007
TN Prisoner States Medical Malpractice Claim Re: Failure to Provide Remedial Surgery by Sheila Proffitt, a Tennessee state prisoner, had a cast put on her broken leg by Prison Health Services, Inc. (defendants). The cast was secured by two bolts, which orthopedic physicians later said should be removed to promote …
Article • May 15, 2007
State Court Habeas for Spinal Treatment Bars Federal Suit by The plaintiff, wheelchair-bound as a result of a gunshot wound, alleged that prison officials had failed to address his chronic pain and had rejected the advice of a specialist to implant a spinal cord stimulation (SCS) device. Another doctor later …
Arrestee Strip Search Upheld in Maryland by The plaintiff was arrested on an outstanding warrant and detained for about 14 hours. Her neck brace and medication were confiscated and not returned during that period. The pain the plaintiff suffered from lack of medication and neck brace was not a serious …
CA Prisoner's Mental Health Records Exempt From Disclosure by In July of 2002, Ramon Gavira Camarillo, a Los Angeles County (County), California prisoner, was found hanging in his cell in the County jail. His widow, Mrs. Gavira, sued the County in state court claiming that the jail staff failed to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jail Immune in Alcohol Withdrawal Death by The decedent was arrested for DUI and died in jail about 18 hours later. An autopsy found that he died from an arrhythmia resulting from an electrolyte imbalance caused by fatty liver. The court assumes that alcohol withdrawal is a serious medical need, …
Article • May 15, 2007
NY Ban on Internet Materials Upheld by A serious medical need is "a condition of urgency that may result in degeneration or extreme pain." (559) (No it isn't, necessarily.) The plaintiff alleged an eight-month delay in diagnosis of his "bowel disorder" (mild distal proctitis and internal hemorrhoids) from the time …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dental Infection Imminent Physical Injury Under PLRA by Dental Infection Imminent Physical Injury Under PLRA Plaintiff alleged that he needed dental work, was sent to a half-completed prison in Arkansas that could not accommodate his needs, as of filing the complaint he had had five extractions and needed two more, …
Article • May 15, 2007
PLRA Doesn't Apply to Released Prisoners, Delay in Seizure Medication Okay by The plaintiff was jailed for ten days for shoplifting. She was not consistently given her seizure medication (as well as her medication to control anxiety, which can trigger seizures), and had seizures; jail personnel would not take her …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Podiatry
Toe Nail Fungus Not a Serious Medical Need by Toe Nail Fungus Not a Serious Medical Need The plaintiff alleged that he was denied treatment for a toenail fungus which caused burning and itching, with skin that cracked and bled; the defendant doctor responded that he refused to provide various …
Court Denies Certification to Class of Involuntarily Operated On Mental Patients by Court Denies Certification to Class of Involuntarily Operated On Mental Patients Developmentally disabled persons challenged the District's policy of allowing city officials to consent to elective surgical procedures on their behalf (in the named plaintiffs' cases, two involuntary …
BOP Prisoners Habeas Hepatitis Suit Dismissed by The bottom line of this opinion, 59 pages in Westlaw, is that the court treats the plaintiff's medical care claim, filed as a habeas petition, as a civil rights action, denies appointment of counsel, holds the prisoner partially exhausted, and grants summary judgment …
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