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Mississippi Woman Awarded $75,000 for Wrongful Incarceration Due to Court Clerk Error by On October 19, 2005, a federal jury in Mississippi awarded Michelle Hobbs $75,000 after she was wrongfully detained for 4 hours based on an arrest warrant mistakenly issued by a court clerk. Hobbs's initial arrest occurred in …
Article • May 15, 2009
New York Jury Dismisses Secondhand Smoke Claim by On May 9, 2008, a New York jury unanimously ruled in favor of the City in a claim filed in 2001 by 78-year-old Raymond Marques, known as "Spanish Raymond" in his heyday as the alleged chief of the Spanish Harlem numbers racket …
$2,000 Settlement in Seattle Jail Illegal Strip Search by Washington State’s King County Jail paid $2,000 to Zachary Lyons, who asserted that after being arrested during the November 30, 2000 “WTO” anniversary demonstrations, he was forced to remove his clothing in a common area of the jail without being afforded …
$150,000 Settlement in Wrongful Death Suit Against Kitsap County Jail by Washington State’s Kitsap County Jail paid $150,000 to settle the claim of the estate of David Franklin, who committed suicide at the jail on August 21, 2000. The claim asserts the jail failed to properly treat Franklin or properly …
Thurston County Settles Jail Guard Murder Suit for $120,000 by Washington State’s Thurston County settled a lawsuit claiming it was responsible for a jail guard killing his wife with his service weapon for $120,000. The suit was brought by the guard’s two children. While off-duty on paid administrative leave on …
Washington State DOC Guard Demoted For Mail Tampering And Violating Rules by Washington State Department of Corrections guard Teresa McSheery appealed her 1997 demotion for committing regulatory mail and safety violations. The demotion was affirmed. McSheery worked at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in 1989 and was the mail …
$45,000 Awarded to Muslim Woman Forced to Remove Headscarf at California Jail by On October 8, 2008, the County of San Bernadino and Sheriff Gary Penrod agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) and the First Amendment. Jameelah …
$300,000 for Family of Prisoner who Bled to Death Waiting on Ambulance by The County of San Bernardino has settled a lawsuit brought by the estate of a woman who bled to death due to an undiagnosed pregnancy condition while waiting on an ambulance. Luan Morales started hemorrhaging while at …
$500,000 Awarded to Family of Parolee Mistakenly Shot and Killed by Live Ammunition by On November 9, 2004, the City of Redondo Beach was ordered to pay $500,000 to the family of a California parolee who was killed by police after being mistakenly shot by live ammunition instead of “bean …
Washington DOC Pays $2.2 Million to Settle Inadequate Supervision Claim Resulting in Death by The Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) agreed to pay $2.2 million to the family of a man who was brutally beaten by a probationer. The lawsuit claimed WDOC was liable for wrongful death because it …
Federal Prison Officials Granted Qualified Immunity in Colorado by A federal district court in Colorado has granted qualified immunity to the warden and associate wardens of the United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Unit (ADX) in regards to a lawsuit filed by a federal prisoner. Prisoner Ahmed Ajaj filed suit against …
City Agrees to Pay $2,500,000 to Private Prison Company by On April 16, 2001, the City of Delta Junction, Alaska agreed to settle a suit brought by prison officials over a failed attempt to construct a private prison at Fort Greely, Alaska. After Fort Greely was slated for closing by …
FTCA Claim Fails for Acts Committed Outside Scope of Actor’s Employment by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a claim brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), holding the action could not proceed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction because the Bureau of Indian …
False Imprisonment, False Arrest and Malicious Prosecution Claims Cognizable Under FTCA by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the United States has waived sovereign immunity under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) for claims alleging false imprisonment, false arrest and malicious prosecution arising out of acts or …
Minnesota Woman Receives $310,000 for Rape by Deputy by A Minnesota woman who was raped by a Cass County Sheriff’s deputy has received $310,000 in settlements and jury verdicts. Wanda Jones was arrested on December 31, 2001 for probation violations after she became drunk at the American Legion in Walker, …
Design of Prison Telephone Held Not To Infringe Patent by On June 18, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a judgment of non-infringement in a patent dispute over the design of a prison telephone. TIP Systems, LLC patented the design of a telephone for use …
Article • April 15, 2009
$717,000 Award to Motorist Injured in High Speed Police Chase by An Alabama jury awarded $717,217 to a motorist injured when a vehicle involved in a high speed chase with police crashed into him. On May 5, 2005, a Birmingham Police Officer began pursuit of Brandon Bearden, who was driving …
Colorado DOC Settles Employee Sex Discrimination Suits by The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) has agreed to reinstate one employee and pay her and another woman who were sexually discriminated against a total of $286,210 to settle their lawsuit against CDOC. The suit named CDOC, its former Executive Director, Joe …
Former New Jersey Prison Social Worker Abuse Lawsuit Reinstated by A New Jersey appeals court has reversed a lower courts dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a former prison health care worker. Angela Hoag was a licensed social worker employed by Correctional Medical Services, Inc. and worked at Southern State …
Lab Technician Denied Qualified Immunity In Former Prisoner’s Lawsuit by In 1984, Dennis Patrick Brown was convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison. With the assistance of The Innocence Project, the DNA tests were repeated in 2003 and revealed Brown was innocent. Brown was released and the City …
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