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Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
for the Eleventh Circuit affirming a sentence handed to former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill for abusing pretrial detainees at the county lockup. Clayton County Commissioners also approved a $5 million ...
impose more than a de minimus cost on the Jail.” Finally, the Court found no error or abuse of discretion in the award of attorney fees and costs to HRDC. HRDC was represented by Litigation Director ...
In-the-News Article • June 3, 2014
of abuse in a West Virginia jail during the state’s recent water crisis. But very few have been able to read the story they were quoted in — because the jail outlaws prisoners from ...
broad discretion,” one that “extends to requests, as here, to reconsider a prior class certification denial.” However, as in that case, the Court found no abuse of discretion ...
granted Defendants’ motion to dismiss, and Burrell and his fellow plaintiffs appealed, with the additional aid of attorneys from the Georgetown University Law Center Appellate Courts Immersion Center ...
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
bid for the governorship and demanded he recuse himself from the litigation. Landry then fired Smith, replacing him with a law firm used to defend the state’s near-total ban on abortion. After ...
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
a lower court’s decision denying class certification in a challenge brought by state prisoners to the use of solitary confinement. In its ruling, the high court agreed with defendant officials from ...
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Settlements
. Louis, it doesn’t much matter whether you end up in the city’s jail or the lockup in adjacent St. Louis County; both are mired in controversy. But in a letter defending city Jail Commissioner ...
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
, in deliberate indifference to her serious medical needs. On November 27, 2023, Defendants removed the case to the federal court for the District of New Mexico, where it remains pending, and PLN will update ...
In-the-News Article • February 15, 2012
," said Walczak — or, as the lawsuit puts it, "compensatory, general, and special damages against each Defendant, jointly and severally, in the amount proven at trial." Jodie ...
In-the-News Article • May 23, 2012
as the company's pattern of sacrificing safety for profit. Alex Friedmann of the Human Rights Defense Center, a nonprofit dedicated to stopping abuse at U.S. detention facilities, said Medina's murder ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Court, and no clear standard says what a prison must provide in its law library to meet the mandate of Bounds. The defendants in Bounds never provided North Carolina prisoners with law libraries. Nearly ...
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
addiction and mental illness since her teens, Miller had a son and her life took a turn for the better: She went to drug abuse and recovery classes, saw a counselor and went back to college. Once sober, she ...
Brief • January 1, 2013
opinion about that? 12. This case includes a claim by Frederick Jackson that the defendant police officers tased him after he directed profanities towards them and while Mr. Jackson was obeying ...
In-the-News Article • August 3, 2018
. “But we have fully reviewed his medical record and feel confident that appropriate evidence-based care was provided,” she said. The Department of Corrections, a defendant ...
Brief • April 9, 2013
, Plaintiff: vs. City of Columbia, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CIA No.:5:10-cv-00132-JFA GENERAL RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Jonathan David McCoy (hereinafter "Releasor ...
Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle. I first contacted Daschle in 1975, when he was an aide to Sen. James Abourezk of South Dakota, who was leading a somewhat lonely campaign against CIA abuses ...
Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009
. Indeed, one U.S. District Court noted that a defendant facing federal charges who insisted on raising nonsensical UCC arguments was a “prisoner of his own gibberish.” See: United States v. Sandoval, 365 ...
nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Before I was exonerated, I sought out every legal avenue I could to win my freedom. I defended my innocence before the New York Appellate Division, raising such proof as the fact ...
Publication • September 10, 2024
are reporting constant physical abuse from both JR staff and “DCYF-deputized” DOC staff. • Restricted Access to Bathroom Facilities -- young people are locked in cells without plumbing and their pleas to be let ...
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