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Oregon Sheriff Sentenced to Jail/Sex-Offender Registration by On August 28, 2007, the former sheriff of Curry County Oregon, was sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to register as a sex offender, for groping three female county employees. Mark Metcalf spent nearly 25 years in law enforcement. He was …
Article • March 15, 2008 • from PLN March, 2008
Love, Sex and Violence KO Oregon Deputies, Jailers and Prison Guards by On August 16, 2007, in separate incidents, two Clackamas County, Oregon sheriff?s deputies were arrested on job-related criminal offenses. Deputy Bryan Lavigne, 36, used excessive force on a juvenile by strangling him during an arrest on July 15, …
Cheaper than Chimpanzees: Expanding the Use of Prisoners in Medical Experiments by Greg Dober by Gregory Dober "It is the duty of the doctor to remain the protector of the life and health of that person on whom clinical research is being carried out." Declaration of Helsinki In June 2006, …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Oregon Parole Officer’s Molestation Victim’s Suicide Claims Settled for $210,000 by Oregon Parole Officer's Molestation Victim's Suicide Claims Settled for $210,000 Aaron Munoz never had a chance in life. He was born addicted to alcohol and heroin because his mother, Deanna Murphy, a longtime heroin user, abused drugs and alcohol …
Article • January 15, 2008
Grievances Exhausted When No Relief Available; Oregon DOC Fails to Prove Non-Exhaustion. by A federal court in Oregon has held that prisoners are not required to exhaust all levels of the prison grievance process when all requested relief is granted before the final step of the grievance process. On December …
Largest Oregon Jail a Cesspool of Misconduct and Mismanagement, Report Finds; Sheriff Faulted and Under Fire by Mark Wilson On November 1, 2006, the Multnomah County District Attorney?s (DA?s) Office in Portland, Oregon released a blistering 63-page report that found systemic, shocking problems in the state?s largest jail system. ?Conservative? …
Article • December 15, 2007
Oregon Protesters Awarded $845,000 in Excessive Force Actions by The City of Portland agreed to pay $300,000 in damages and $545,000 in attorney's fees to twelve protesters who brought excessive force actions against the Portland Bureau. On August 22, 2002, President Bush visited Portland, Oregon. As a Republican fundraiser was …
Article • December 15, 2007
Paruresis No Excuse for Failure to Urinate Absent Medical Verification by Oregon State pro se prisoner Richard Sheeny appealed a U.S. District Court grant of summary judgment to prison officials denying his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. He alleged constitutional violations when he was disciplined for failure to urinate because …
Evidentiary Hearing Ordered For AEDPA Equitable Tolling Claim Arising From Transfer to Out-Of-State Prison by The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ordered the U.S. District Court (D. Ore.) to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine if ample facts supported two Oregon state prisoners? claims that their involuntary transfers to …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
$2,500 Settlement in False Report of Oregon Prisoner’s Death by $2,500 Settlement in False Report of Oregon Prisone's Death The wife and two sons of an Oregon state prisoner received a $2,500 settlement after a prison counselor left a voice mail message falsely stating that her imprisoned husband had died. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Summary Judgment, Qualified Immunity Denied on Deliberate Indifference Claim by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed denial of summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds to a federal correctional counselor charged with deliberate indifference to a serious medical need. Robert Mahler, a prisoner at the Federal Prison Camp in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Oregon Court Denies PI Against Outgoing Mail Ban by A federal court in Oregon held that a mental patient's outgoing mail to elected public officials and attorneys which contained "fearful or threatening material" but which did not advocate violence or illegal activity was entitled to First Amendment protections. The court …
Article • May 15, 2007
Oregon Court Invalidates Civil Committee's Treatment Plan by A federal court in Oregon held that a state hospital committee's treatment plan which precluded him from sending non-threatening, although outrageous, letters to government officials violated the patient's First Amendment rights. This is the same case as Martyr v. Bachik, 755 F.Supp. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Oregon Court Permanently Enjoins Outgoing Mail Ban by In the same case as Martyr v. Bachik, 755 F.Supp. 325 (D OR 1991); Martyr v. Bachik, 770 F.Supp. 1406 (D OR 1991); and Martyr v. Bachik, 770 F.Supp. 1414 (D OR 1991), a federal court in Oregon held that a patient …
Article • May 15, 2007
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Oregon: Imprisonment Warrants Suspension of Child Support Payments by The Court of Appeals of Oregon held that a prisoner's child support payments should be suspended until 60 days after his release from prison. Cecil Edmonds, an Oregon state prisoner, filed a motion to modify the child support provision of his …
Public Employee Granted Access to Information in Personnel File by In a §1983 action, an Oregon DOC guard brought suit alleging racial discrimination. A federal district court in Oregon held that a guard is entitled to information contained in his personnel file to pursue a discrimination suit against his employer. …
Oregon Protesters Awarded $845,000 in Excessive Force Actions by The City of Portland, Oregon has paid $300,000 in damages and $545,000 in attorney's fees to twelve protesters who brought excessive force actions against the Portland Police Bureau. On August 22, 2002, President Bush visited Portland. As a Republican fundraiser was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissal Of Actions Before Issuance Of Summonses Improper by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred in dismissing on its own motion a prisoner's pro se civil rights actions. Harry Franklin, an Oregon state prisoner, filed 33 pro se actions in district court. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
Supreme Court Issues Use Of Force Standard In Riot Cases by The U.S. Supreme Court held that the shooting of an Oregon prisoner by prison officials during a security action did not violate his Fight Amendment rights. The prisoner filed suit under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 alleging that he was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Visitor has Right to Due Process Hearing Before Termination of Visit Privileges by The Oregon Court of Appeals has held that a visitor, who had her privilege to visit her husband permanently revoked after he was found with a balloon full of marijuana in his rectum in a post visit …
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