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D.C. Circuit Reverses U.S. Gulf War POWs' $959 Million+ Prisoner Abuse Award by On June 4, 2004, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a federal court's award of more than $959 ...
Ninth Circuit Holds Staff Sexual Abuse Presumed Coercive; State Bears Burden of Rebutting Presumption by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a district court erred when finding ...
Sexual Abuse by Oregon Jail Guard Nets Probation; Defense Attorney Blames Victim by A former Oregon jail guard was sentenced to probation for sexually abusing a female prisoner after ...
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
to enforce its prior orders, concluding that clear and convincing evidence showed that prison officials at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran had consistently failed to provide qualified sign ...
as penal institutions. The complaint chronicles the frequent use/abuse of a prac-tice known as “dipping,” in which staff twist a youth’s arm behind his or her back, flip the youth facedown on the ground ...
before arriving at the County Detention Center (CDC). By age three, he had been sexually abused. By age six, he had been assaulted with a gun. When he was 11, D.W. was the victim of more abuse and assault ...
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
of summary judgment in a civil rights action alleging a guard at California’s Kern County Jail (KCJ) made sexual comments to a female juvenile detainee, groomed her for sexual abuse, and looked at her ...
Brief • April 25, 2013
: MEDICAL ASSOCIATES; BLAIR : COUNTY; and JENNIFER FEATHERS, : in her individual capacity, : Defendants : CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:09-cv-159 JUDGE GIBSON CIVIL ACTION - LAW JURY TRIAL DEMANDED (Filed ...
Brief • 2006
with deliberate indifference, failed to follow procedures for supervising and removing, when appropriate, unstable, malicious, violent, abusive, dishonest and biased police officers from their duties. 31. Defendant ...
of this Complaint are incorporated herein. 91. The actions, omissions, and conduct of the defendant police officers as set forth above were extreme and outrageous. These actions were rooted in an abuse of power ...
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with their actions. These abusive arrests cause direct and significant harm to those arrested and, more generally, undermine the appropriate balance between police authority and individual prerogative to question ...
Brief • 2011
OF NEW JERSEY ______________________________ : KIMBERLEE WILLIAMS, ET AL., : : Plaintiffs, : : vs. : : BASF CATALYSTS, LLC, ET AL., : : Defendants. : ______________________________ : Civ. No. 11-cv-1754 ...
Case • 2001
in custody and of any force which he reasonably believes to be necessary to defend himself or another from bodily harm. [38] The district court did not abuse its discretion when it chose not to address ...
Brief • September 8, 2015
of Defendants State of Utah; Utah Department of Health Services (“DHS”) and its Executive Director Ann Williamson; Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (“SAMH”) and its Director Douglas Thomas ...
damages and $28,000 in punitive damages .... The Sixth Circuit rejected the defendants appeal, finding that the district judge did not abuse his discretion in granting a new trial, or in declining ...
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
of repeated sexual assaults. Four guards were fired and three prosecuted for the sexual assaults, but none were named as defendants in the lawsuit. “Cara was addicted to opiates and wrote bad checks ...
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
and an abuse of discretion,” especially given that there was “no claim that a continuance would prejudice the defendants.” See: Gabriel v. Hamlin, 514 F.3d 734 (7th Cir. 2008). On remand, Gabriel’s suit ...
Brief • 2009
...................................................................................................... 12 I. There is No Unusual Rate of Sex Offenses or Significant Increase in Risk for Child Sexual Abuse Associated With Halloween ...
Publication • February 10, 2016
 With the enactment of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (“PREA”), Congress simultaneously acknowledged the significance of sexual abuse by staff and prisoners in correctional facilities as well as the duty ...
Brief • 2000
things, investigating evidence and/or allegations of officials' abuse of inmates, and putting a stop to such abuse. 16. Defendant June Groom was, at the times discussed herein, an officer for defendant ...
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