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Illegal Search Precludes Policeman's Qualified Immunity; Affirms Plaintiff's Summary Judgment by The U.S. Southern District Court of New York determined that a police Sergeant was not entitled to qualified immunity for an unreasonable strip search. Nicole Sarnicola was arrested for suspicion of dealing drugs and was taken to the Tarrytown …
Attorney Fee Award Under § 1988 Not Recoverable from Nonparty by After a man became a suspect in the murder of a Kentucky state trooper, various police officials raided the man's father's house and arrested all of the occupants, which did not include the man. The occupants filed suit in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Transfer Of Prisoners' Property To Sheriff Illegal by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that a Missouri sheriff could not legally receive property from a prisoner. Missouri prisoners Charles Hazen and Gerald Hazen (father and son, respectively) brought § 1983 action against state Highway Patrol officers …
$900,000 Settlement In Eugene, Oregon Police Sexual Assault Civil Rights Case by Unknown plaintiffs filed a Federal civil rights complaint against the City of Eugene, Oregon, claiming that Eugene Police Officer Roger Magena and other unnamed officers engaged in a pattern of sexual misconduct reported by citizens, due to insufficient …
Police Misconduct Reports Must be Disclosed in Discovery by The plaintiff complained of excessive force by the police and sought information about internal investigations. State law exempting internal investigative and other files from disclosure does not govern privilege issues in federal claim cases. The court directs production of the date …
Police Union Allowed to Intervene in U.S. Brutality Suit by The federal government brought suit about excessive force and improper arrests and searches by the city police, and the parties submitted a proposed consent degree. The police union and various community groups (inter alia, the SCLC, the ACLU, and Homeboy …
Article • May 15, 2007
HIV+ Plaintiff Can Be Anonymous in Needle Exchange Police Harassment Suit by Intravenous drug users who used state-authorized needle exchange programs alleged that they were harassed by the police. The plaintiffs had standing to seek injunctive relief. There is no minimum number of past incidents that must be pled to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Village Failure to Investigate Police Abuse May Create Liability by The plaintiff alleged abusive conduct by a police office. There had been six prior letters of complaint or criticism of the officer's abuse of civilians. At 479: ". . . [A] reasonable jury could infer from these repeated complaints an …
Court Upholds Firing of Probationary Cop for Affair With Captain by A female probationary police officer was terminated for having an affair with a male police captain. The captain was not terminated. There is no equal protection violation, since under the law of the Eighth Circuit a probationary officer and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Upholds Firing of Racist NY Cop by The plaintiff, a New York City police officer, received solicitations from the Mineola Auxiliary Police Department and stuffed the return envelopes anonymously with racist and anti-Semitic literature. He was traced and reported to his employer, which fired him. The court assumes that …
Article • May 15, 2007
Quadriplegic Texas Prisoner Injured In Police Van Settles For $750,000 by On May 31, 1999, a quadriplegic woman whose leg was broken during transport in a Houston Police Department van settled her lawsuit against the city for $750,000. Plaintiff Sharon Lee, 61 at the time of the settlement, was rendered …
Article • May 15, 2007
City Liable for Tolerating Police Brutality by At 879: The Plaintiff avers that the City violated his constitutional rights by failing to train, discipline, monitor and evaluate officers in the use of force; refusing to adequately investigate citizen complaints of excessive force; exonerating officers accused of improper use of force; …
Article • May 15, 2007
Cover Up of Police Misconduct May Violate Court Access Rights by Allegations that after a drunken police officer ran over the decedent, other police officers conspired to select a sobriety test the officer might beat, delayed administration of the test, intimidated witnesses, and destroyed material evidence at the crime scene, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Fifth Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment in Sheriff's Property Liability Case by The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a grant of summary judgment to a county and its surety company in a case involving a deputy sheriff's theft of property. Gerald and Tonya Henley were arrested and …
Summary Judgment Improper, Proof of State-Enforced "Custom" States Claim by Summary Judgment Improper, Proof of State-Enforced "Custom" States Claim The U.S. Supreme Court reversed and remanded a district court's dismissal of a federal civil rights action, holding that it was improper because defendant's materials did not sufficiently negate plaintiff's allegations. …
Illegal Police Action Cognizable Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Illegal Police Action Cognizable Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 The United States Supreme Court held that the illegal actions of city police, while on duty, that amount to an unreasonable search and seizure, constituted action taken `under the 'color of …
Lack of Investigations of Police Misconduct Make City Liable by The plaintiff's claim of municipal liability for excessive force is supported by evidence (at 199) that Hartford does not take civilian complaints of excessive force seriously, as shown by a pattern of allowing complaints to molder and gray without adequate …
Police Denied Qualified Immunity for Fabricated Evidence by The Fourth Circuit court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's denial of summary judgment to a Virginia State Police agent who fabricated evidence in a capital case. Rebecca Williams was raped and murdered on June 4, 1982. Before she died, Williams stated …
Innocent Idaho Prisoner Receives $900,000 for 21 Years Wrongful Incarceration by After spending nearly twenty-one years incarcerated for murder, Donald M. Paradis was released from Idaho?s death row on April 10, 2001. Now, just over fiver years later, Paradis is set to receive $900,000 for his wrongful conviction and incarceration. …
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue marks PLN?s 17th anniversary and our 205th issue since we first started publishing in May, 1990. This makes PLN the longest published, by far, independent prisoner publication in US history. About 95% of PLN?s articles remain written by current or former prisoners …
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