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In Many Courtrooms, Bad Interpreters Can Mean Justice Denied by By Rebecca Beitsch, Stateline Patricia Michelsen-King was observing the proceedings in a Chesterfield, Virginia, courtroom a few years ago when a man shouted in Spanish from the back of the courtroom, “I didn’t rape anybody!” Michelsen-King, who teaches Spanish interpretation at …
$12,500 Settlement in D.C. Prisoner’s Negligent Maintenance Suit by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $12,500 to settle the lawsuit of prisoner Theodore Jones for injuries sustained for lack of proper maintenance. While at the D.C. Jail on July 31, 2000, Jones was playing basketball on the recreation court when …
Federal Prisoner Receives $20,000 for Inadequate Medical Treatment for His Hand Injury by Lonnie Burton On March 7, 2000, the United States agreed to pay a federal prisoner the sum of $20,000 to settle his lawsuit stemming from inadequate medical care resulting in permanent paralysis in his left hand. The …
Federal Prisoner Receives $1,000 Settlement in Food Poisoning Case by Lonnie Burton On April 2, 1997, the United States agreed to settle a lawsuit in which a federal prisoner alleged she was poisoned by the food in the prison chow hall and then received inadequate medical care afterwards. The documents …
Federal Prison Worker Receives $25,000 Settlement in Claim for Racial Discrimination, Retaliation by Lonnie Burton On June 16, 2003, a federal prison employee settled her complaint against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), where she alleged she was subjected to racial epithets, and then a slew of retaliatory acts after …
Federal Prison Guard Receives $58,000 Settlement in Racial Discrimination Case by Lonnie Burton On November 9, 2001, a federal prison guard entered into a settlement agreement with the United States in which he agreed to drop his complaints for racial discrimination in exchange for just over $58,000, back pay, and …
Federal Prison Guard Receives $45,000 Settlement on Claim of Workplace Discrimination Due to Military Status by Lonnie Burton Matthew Tully worked as a prison guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Complex in New York (MCC-New York) City from 1998-2000. Tully had been a member of the United States Army and was …
Federal Bureau of Prisons Settles Overtime Dispute with Leavenworth Guards for Nearly $400,000 by Lonnie Burton On November 27, 2000, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the Council of Prison Locals, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 919 entered into a settlement agreement in a grievance filed by …
$340,000 Settlement for Federal Prisoner Severely Beaten by Cellmate While Handcuffed by Lonnie Burton On October 2, 1997, the United States agreed to pay a federal prisoner a total of $340,000 to settle a lawsuit filed just months earlier alleging that negligence and deliberate indifference on the part of prison …
$250,000 Settlement for Family of Federal Prisoner Who Suffered Fatal Heart Attack After Being Refused Medical Attention by Lonnie Burton On December 2, 2002, the U.S. Department of Justice entered into a settlement agreement with the family of a former federal prisoner who died of a heart attack after he …
$55,000 Settlement for Federal Prisoner Repeatedly Raped By Guard by Lonnie Burton On November 20, 2003, a federal prisoner settled a lawsuit she filed against the United States, a guard, and the warden at a federal prison in San Diego on a claim that she was repeatedly raped by a …
$31,500 Settlement for Federal Prison Guard for Racial, Military Discrimination by Lonnie Burton Larry D. Milner was a guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego (MCC-SD) while at the same time being on active duty in the U.S. Navy. Milner, an African-American, filed a complaint alleging he was …
Article • September 9, 2016
First Circuit Holds RLUIPA Does Not Provide Relief from Transfer to Remote Prison Where Opportunities for Religious Exercise Are Limited by The First Circuit has held that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc et seg., does not provide a basis for relief where …
Article • September 9, 2016
Senator McConnell's Message to Unicor: Back Off by Derek Gilna When one of the most powerful United States Senators makes a suggestion, even a federal bureaucracy takes notice. Kurt Wilson, an executive with American Apparel, Inc., an Alabama company that makes military uniforms, and Michael Marsh of Kentucky-based Ashland Sales …
Dunn v. Dunn, AL, Consent Decree, ADA Compliance, 2016 Case 2:14-cv-00601-MHT-TFM Document 728 Filed 09/09/16 Page 1 of 78 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA JOSHUA DUNN, ET AL., Plaintiffs, v. JEFFERSON DUNN, ET AL., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Dunn v. Dunn, AL, Final Settlement Approval, ADA Compliance, 2016 Case 2:14-cv-00601-MHT-TFM Document 727 Filed 09/09/16 Page 1 of 116 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, NORTHERN DIVISION JOSHUA DUNN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. JEFFERSON S. DUNN, in his official capacity as …
Article • September 8, 2016
D.C. Circuit reinstates prisoner's FOIA case on "Public Domain" grounds by Derek Gilna Carlos Marino, incarcerated for a 1997 drug conspiracy conviction, in 2004 submitted a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seeking all information that had already made public in his criminal trials in …
Second Circuit Permits Office of Personnel Management to Assert FOIA Exemption 6 by Derek Gilna The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. Section 552(b)(6), also known as "FOIA," was enacted "to promote honest and open government," Grand Cent. P'ship, Inc. v. Cuomo, 166 F.3d 473, 478 (2d Cir. 1999), and …
Federal Tort Claims Action Dismissal Upheld for Failure to Timely File by Derek Gilna Maria Inamagua Merchan, an undocumented alien awaiting deportation in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility, died while in custody, and her estate brought an action under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) against ICE …
Sex Offender Registration Requirement of Louisiana Crimes Against Nature by Solicitation Statute Unconstitutional by Matthew Clarke On March 29, 2012, a Louisiana federal court held that the sex offender registration requirement of the Louisiana Crimes Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) statute, La.R.S. 14:89(B), was an unconstitutional violation of the Equal …
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