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TDCJ Pays $267,000 to Settle Discrimination Claim by On September 15, 2005, the TDCJ agreed to pay a total of $267,500 to Melissa Roberts to settle a complaint she filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Represented by …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
$91,059.83 in Damages, Fees and Costs Awarded to Alabama Prisoner Beaten by Guard by An Alabama federal jury has awarded $20,000 in compensatory and punitive damages to a man beaten by a guard at the Lauderdale County Detention Center (LCDC). The lawsuit alleged that LCDC guard Philip King was aware …
$100 Million Settlement in Michigan Prisoners’ Sexual Abuse Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A record-breaking settlement has been reached in a 13-year-old class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of female prisoners who were “subjected to sexual abuse, sexual harassment, privacy violations by male [prison] staff ... and/or retaliation …
$2.7 Million Settlement for Oklahoma Double Leg Amputee Jail Prisoner by On April 9, 2009, a federal district judge in Oklahoma signed a consent decree memorializing a $2.7 million settlement between an Oklahoma county and a former jail prisoner who suffered amputation of both legs while incarcerated at the jail. …
Class Action Alleging Unconstitutional Michigan Indigent Defense System Survives Summary Judgment by Michigan’s Court of Appeals has upheld the denial of a summary judgment motion filed by state officials in a class action lawsuit that claims indigent defendants subject to felony prosecutions in trial courts in three Michigan counties have …
Massachusetts Man’s Estate Resolves Wrongful Conviction Suit for $14.1 Million by David Reutter In July 2009, the estate of a man who served over 18 years in Massachusetts prisons for a murder and robbery he did not commit reached a $3.4 million settlement with 5 of the 6 insurers for …
TDCJ Guards Denied Qualified Immunity in Failure to Protect Case by On April 14, 2004, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) agreed to pay $84,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Texas prisoner Eugene Cantu. The original complaint was filed July 3, 2000 pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Refusal to Mail Nebraska Prisoner’s Artwork Violates First Amendment by A Nebraska district court has held that prison officials violated a prisoner’s First Amendment right to send and receive mail when they refused to let him mail his drawings. The court’s ruling came on a motion for judgment as a …
Pennsylvania Private Juvenile Prison Scandal Results in Guilty Pleas by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 9, 2009, attorney Robert J. Powell of Hazeltown, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to charges related to an illegal scheme involving two for-profit juvenile facilities – PA Child Care in Luzerne County and Western PA …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Georgia Attorneys Abandoning Indigent Defendants by David Reutter by David M. Reutter For almost 50 years, following the Supreme Court’s 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, criminal defendants have had a constitutional right to legal representation. However, Georgia lawmakers have decided that as a result of the state’s budget shortfall …
Article • October 15, 2009
Attorney Fees Measured by Degree of Success Need Not be Tethered to Damage Award by The California Court of Appeal held in a Los Angeles County Jail overdetention and jail-rape civil rights case that when a $25,000 damage award for the overdetention claim survived appeal, but the $1 million award …
Article • October 15, 2009
Where Prisoner Prevailed on One of Four § 1983 Claims, Attorney Fees Reduced by 75% by Where Prisoner Prevailed on One of Four § 1983 Claims, Attorney Fees Reduced by 75% Where a state prisoner sued the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in pro per under 42 U.S.C. …
Obama Administration Accused Again of Concealing Bush-Era Crimes by Matt Renner Monday 12 October 2009 by: Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t | Report President Obama promised to usher in a new era of government transparency when he was sworn into office nine months ago. On …
$4.7 Million Settlement for Brain Damage Caused by Washington Jail Negligence by Washington State’s Kitsap County Jail paid $4.7 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged its failure to properly care for a developmentally disabled man left him brain damaged from dehydration. William E. Trask, 44, was born developmentally disabled. …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Ohio County Jail Agrees to Pay $75,000 For Locking Up Poor by On April 30, 2009, Hamilton County, Ohio agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of over 600 individuals who were jailed for non-payment of a fine without first being afforded an attorney or hearing to …
Brief • September 28, 2009
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Andersen v Becker County MN Memorandum Opinion and Order Attorney Calls Monitored 2010 CASE 0:08-cv-05687-ADM-RLE Document 68 Filed 09/28/09 Page 1 of 29 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Kenneth E. Andersen and Dell D. Holm, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, and William K. Bulmer, …
Beecham v. City of West Sacremento, CA, Motion, Reasonable Attorney's Fees and Expenses, 2009 1 4 MICHAEL J. HADDAD (State Bar No. 189114) JULIA SHERWIN (State Bar No. 189268) HADDAD & SHERWIN 505 Seventeenth Street Oakland, California 94612 Telephone: (510) 452-5500 Fax: (510) 452-5510 5 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 6 RICHARD …
Brief • September 23, 2009
Beecham v. City of West Sacremento, CA, Response to Motion, Reasonable Attorney's Fees and Expenses, 2009 1 4 MICHAEL J. HADDAD (State Bar No. 189114) JULIA SHERWIN (State Bar No. 189268) HADDAD & SHERWIN 505 Seventeenth Street Oakland, California 94612 Telephone: (510) 452-5500 Fax: (510) 452-5510 5 Attorneys for Plaintiffs …
Former Prisoner Convicted of Impersonating Criminal Defense Attorney by On April 15, 2009, a federal jury convicted a former prisoner who impersonated a lawyer on charges of mail fraud and making false statements, and the U.S. District Court subsequently imposed a 51-month prison sentence. Howard O. Kieffer, 54, served time …
Texas’ Parole Condition X Violates Due Process by Gary Hunter Texas’ parole Condition X has come under scrutiny in a federal court case. On December 12, 2008, a U.S. magistrate judge issued a 30-page order granting partial summary judgment in favor of parolee David Brian Jennings, after concluding that the …
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