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No Preliminary Inunction for Firing of Prisoner Law Clerks by The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Massachusetts federal district court's order denying prisoners at MCI-Cedar Junction a preliminary injunction seeking to reinstate them to their law clerk positions at the prison. The prisoners argued they were terminated in …
Article • May 15, 2007
$210,000 Awarded Indiana Guard for Retaliation by Supervisors by An Indiana federal jury awarded guard Nancy Spiegla $210,000 in a lawsuit alleging retaliation for her protected speech rights. Spiegla had worked at Indiana's Westville Correctional Facility since 1985. She was known as a stickler for applying rules, and for years …
$9,000 Paid in WA Retaliation Suit by Airway Heights Correction Center prisoners Derek E. Gronquist and Donald H. Turpin filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the Eastern District of Washington federal court. The Complaint alleged they were subjected to retaliatory disciplinary action resulting from lawsuits they filed upon the …
Iowa Jail Employee's Whistleblower Jury Award Reduced to $258,027 by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On December 31, 2003, a federal judge in Iowa reduced a whistle-blowing former assistant jail administrator's $250,000 jury award for emotional distress to $130,000 while letting stand the remaining award of $128,027 for lost …
WA Mail Theft Whistleblower's Emotional Distress Award Vacated by A Washington Appeals Court reversed a jury's award of $4,891 for emotional distress in favor of a Washington Department of Correction's employee and dismissed the case. The employee had reported to supervisors that theft of money from prisoner's mail was occurring. …
$27,500 Tort Claim Settlement In Washington Employee Sexual Harassment Suit by In 1999 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with parole officer, Joanna Prideaux an employee at the Spokane parole office, for $27,500 for sexual harassment and retaliation. In 1998 Prideaux complained of incidents of sexual …
$51,050 Paid in WA Retaliation Claim by Mark Wayne Clark had previously prevailed in a retaliation lawsuit against Sgt. Patrick O'Conner while at the Washington State Penitentiary when he was placed in O'Conner's unit at the prison. Shortly thereafter, O'Conner began harassing Clark and instituted disciplinary proceedings stating Clark had …
$62,000 Paid in WA DOC Cook's Sexual Harassment Suit by Cheryl J. Danner was employed at the Washington Correction Center as a kitchen employee. For over a year she was subjected to sexually explicit comments, directions, innuendo, and indecent propositions by her supervisor Oliver Coleman. After Danner filed a complaint …
$30,000 Tort Claim Award In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit by In 2000 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a tort claim with Dave P. Rotz a cook at the McNeil Island Correctional Center in Steilacoom for $30,000. In 1996 Rotz was subject to discrimination due to his disability and …
$40,000 Settlement In Washington Employee Wrongful Termination Suit by In 1999 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with Dorothy Holt and Janet Holt, mother and daughter who were nurses at Washington Corrections Center, for $40,000 for wrongful termination. Plaintiff's brought suit after being terminated for complaining …
Article • May 15, 2007
$45,000 Awarded In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit by In 1994 the Washington State Department of Corrections settled a law suit with Sergeant Lonny Earles for $45,000. In 1985 Earles was working at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, he filed a grievance against Lieutenant Grandemontagne for threatening to pull him …
Article • May 15, 2007
First Amendment Protects Prisoners' Negative Statements About Prisons by Robert Gandy is a prisoner in the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC). He wrote a letter to Home Depot, a mail-order supplier of DOC prisoners, about a DOC policy that he thought would illegally impinge on Home Depot's business. Guards opened …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington State Prison Nurse's Wrongful Termination Claim Survives Summary Judgment by Washington State Prison Nurse's Wrongful Termination Claim Survives Summary Judgment Licensed Practical Nurse Jayne Morse filed a state court civil rights action against Washington State prison personnel alleging retaliatory discharge in violation of the First Amendment and wrongful termination …
Notice of Rules Required Before Infraction by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that two federal prisoners in Texas were denied due process when they were disciplined for violating a non existent prison rule. The court also required that the lowers court determine if the defendants had …
$175,000 Paid in WA Guard's Second Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Suit by Madge Wheelock, a Sergeant at Monroe Command for the Washington Department of Corrections, was subjected to continued sexual harassment and retaliation, which occurred after she received a judgment under Snohomish County Case No. 85-2-04790-5 in the amount of …
$35,000 Award In Indiana Prison Guard Gender Discrimination Suit by On April 18, 2002 an Indiana federal jury awarded Johnana Horn, a prison lieutenant at the Wabash Valley Prison, a $35,000 verdict for gender discrimination by her employer the Department Of Corrections (DOC). In 1998 Horn was working the night …
$1,000 Paid in WA DOC Employee's Discrimination Suit by Saiyed I. Hasan, an employee at Washington Corrections Center, filed suit is State Court alleging he was the victim of harassment, discrimination, and false reports. The complaint does not detail the facts, which occurred in 1993. The suit was filed in …
Article • May 15, 2007
$1,200 Paid in WA Prisoner's Retaliation Claim by Timothy J. Beard filed a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action in federal court alleging he was denied employment by Correctional Industries at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center. (CBCC). Beard had worked at the Industry when he was terminated, along with several other …
New Mexico: $50,000 Settlement For False Arrest, Unconstitutional Strip Search by In the week of January 1, 2001, a lawsuit alleging false arrest and an unconstitutional strip search in retaliation for supporting a particular candidate for district attorney settled for $50,000. In 1999, while attending Gallup High School, Emily Ellison …
Retaliatory Keep-Lock for Assisting Prisoner with Grievance Defeats Dismissal Motion by Retaliatory Keep-Lock for Assisting Prisoner with Grievance Defeats Dismissal Motion A New York federal district Court denied prison official's motion to dismiss a prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 complaint alleging retaliation assisting another prisoner with a grievance. The prisoner was …
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