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Article • May 15, 2007
No Police or Hospital Liability for Catheterizing Motorist for Drug Test by The plaintiff ran out of gas and was walking down the road, without a coat in January. Sheriff's deputies concluded he was "bonkers" and "totally out of it," so they took him into custody, handcuffing him though they …
Article • May 15, 2007
Federal DNA Sample Parole Condition Upheld by A supervised release condition requiring the defendant to "cooperate in the collection of DNA as directed by the U.S. probation officer" does not violate the Fourth Amendment and is not unconstitutionally vague, given the extensive rules and restrictions that govern the collection and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jail Insurance Agreements Subject to Discovery by In a jail strip search suit, the court holds that reinsurance agreements between a self-funded insurance pool of counties and its reinsurers are subject to disclosure under Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(a)(1)(D) governing discovery of insurance agreements. See: Tardiff v. Knox County, 224 F.R.D. 522 (D.Me. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Turner Applied to Some Juvenile Prisoner Strip Searches by The plaintiffs, parents of two female children, challenged the lawfulness of strip searches in juvenile detention centers, which contain persons awaiting trial following arrest for serious juvenile offenses, or for less serious offenses if the parents refuse to take the child …
Article • May 15, 2007
Mail Censorship Claims State Claim by Allegations that the defendants have deliberately tampered with his legal, personal, and political incoming and outgoing mail without justification state a constitutional claim. The Second Circuit has said that a prisoner's right to the free flow of incoming and outgoing mail is protected by …
No Qualified Immunity for Mental Hospital Strip Searches by The individual plaintiff was subjected to a strip and body cavity search on his voluntary admission to a civilian mental hospital pursuant to a standing order applicable specifically to him. Disability Advocates, Inc., a PAMII organization, is also a plaintiff. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
District of Columbia is "Suable Entity" Under 42 U.S.C. §1983 by District of Columbia is "Suable Entity" Under 42 U.S.C. §1983 The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.C.) held that the district can be sued under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Twenty-three D.C. prisoners at the Lorton Reformatory …
Article • May 15, 2007
Second Circuit: Bank Larceny Not Qualifying Federal Offense For Probationer's DNA Collection by Second Circuit: Bank Larceny Not Qualifying Federal Offense For Probationer's DNA Collection by Michael Rigby On January 10, 2005, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that bank larceny was not a "qualifying federal offense" for …
Loss of Sentence Reduction for Positive Drug Test Upheld by The petitioner was prescribed an opiate for medical reasons and the next day tested positive for cocaine metabolites. The plaintiff was not denied due process by the failure to call the doctor who prescribed the opiate as a witness at …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jail Clothing Change Process Not a Strip Search by The plaintiff was arrested one night and released the following morning. Both coming and going, she was required to change clothing in a doorless room under the continuous observation of a female jail officer. The defendants argued that their procedure was …
Catheterizing Motorist for Urine Sample Suit Dismissed by The plaintiff alleged that he ran out of gas and Sheriff's deputies took him to a hospital and requested he submit to a urine analysis; when he could not urinate with a room full of people watching him, the deputies tackled him …
Article • May 15, 2007
No City Liability for Policeman's Sexual Assault, Strip Search of Minor by The plaintiff, a minor, was a passenger in a car whose driver was in possession of marijuana. The plaintiff was strip searched at the police station and the officer later made sexual advances toward him and restrained him …
Article • May 15, 2007
Searches of West Virginia Prisoners Leaving Exercise Yard Upheld by Routine searches upon leaving a recreation yard of high-security segregation prisoners are upheld under Turner. The practice is rationally related to defendants' security concerns of protecting staff from weapons and preventing the exchange of contraband. There are alternative means of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prison Officials Denied Qualified Immunity in Strip Search of Visitor by The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment on grounds of qualified immunity a strip search of a prison visitor by Arkansas prison officials. Burlis Smothers, the mother of a prisoner at …
Sixth Circuit Orders Reconsideration of Attorney Fees Claim in Drug Testing Case by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that use of the enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT) urine test for detecting prisoners' consumption of illegal drugs did not violate due process and did not violate terms of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prison Strip Search Policy Reasonable, Tasers Okay by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a maximum security prison's strip search policy was reasonable and, in a case of first impression, held that tasers, also known as "stun guns," could be used by prison guards to enforce compliance …
Disciplinary Hearing Requires Fact Finding by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit upheld the dismissal of an Illinois state prisoner's lawsuit over searches of his cell for refusing to pay a guard's extortion demand and that the guard planted false evidence in his cell as a result. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Searches, Drug Testing
Single EMIT Test Result Enough To Convict WA Prisoners by The Washington state supreme court held that a single positive EMIT test for drug use constituted sufficient basis to convict and punish Washington state prisoners for drug use. The court also held that Washington prisoners have a constitutionally protected liberty …
Article • May 15, 2007
Qualified Immunity for Urine Samples in Presence of Parole Officer by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a Nebraska parole officer was entitled to qualified immunity from a parolee's lawsuit that he was required to provide urine samples for drug testing in the officer's presence. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
KS Statute Allowing Blood Samples for DNA Databank Upheld by The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit upheld the constitutionality of a Kansas statute allowing the collection of blood samples from prisoners for a DNA databank. All circuits to consider this issue have affirmed the practice, finding DNA information …
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