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$4,000 Injury Award for Body Cavity Search by The U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada held that anal body cavity searches conducted on two Nevada prisoners were not unconstitutional but that a subsequent cavity search of one of the prisoners was, and that the associate warden was liable …
Article • May 15, 2007
Limited Attorney Fee Award for Partial Victory by The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has held that a plaintiff who successfully challenged a jail strip search policy was the "prevailing party" for purpose of an attorney fee award as outlined in 42 U.S.C.A. §1988. Plaintiff brought a …
Dismissal and QI Denied in Cross-Gender Pat Searches by The Federal District Court in Connecticut has found that fact issues remain regarding the constitutionality of cross gender pat searches and whether appropriate steps were taken to protect a female prisoner after she reported sexual assaults by a guard. Qualified immunity …
Article • May 15, 2007
Required DNA Submission Under Patriot Act Constitutional by The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas held that the relevant portions of the Patriot Act, which require persons convicted of various felonies to submit a DNA sample for inclusion in the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database, were …
Article • May 15, 2007
Theft of Property During Search by Police Officer Actionable by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a police officer may be sued for the theft of a soda pop during a search executed pursuant to a warrant. This action was filed by the owner of the Lone Mallard …
Request at Trial Seeking Funds for DNA Expert Too Late; BOP Guard Convicted of Rape by Request at Trial Seeking Funds for DNA Expert Too Late; BOP Guard Convicted of Rape The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of a Puerto Rico Federal Bureau of Prison guard's conviction …
Article • May 15, 2007
Indiana Arrestee Strip Searches Unconstitutional by The Supreme Court of Indiana held that routine warrantless strip searches of misdemeanor arrestees, even when incident to lawful arrests, are violative of the Indiana Constitution and the Fourth Amendment. This criminal case was before the court on a motion to suppress cocaine found …
Article • May 15, 2007
Detainees Entitled To Contact Visits, To Be Present During Shakedowns by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that pretrial detainees were entitled to contact visits and to be present during cell searches. Pretrial detainees in the Los Angeles County Central Jail brought a class action § …
Article • May 15, 2007
$2,000 For Erroneous Washington Parole Drug Test Result by On May 1, 1995, John Lizee was arrested for a community supervision violation by his community corrections officer and confined at the Airway Heights Corrections Center, in Spokane, Washington, until May 4, 1995. Mr. Lizee's arrest and confinement was based on …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissal of Minnesota Sex Offender's Search and Seizure Claim Upheld by The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a civilly committed Minnesota prisoner's claim that the search and seizure of his property violated his constitutional rights and state law. While imprisoned at the Moose Lake facility …
Article • May 15, 2007
7th Circuit Holds $60,000 Illinois Strip Search Award Not Excessive by On Nov. 29, 1983, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a strip-search claimant's $60,000 jury award against the City of Chicago was not excessive even though it was larger than awards in similar cases. Four female …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Prisoner Assaulted By Guards Awarded $300 by On December 31, 2003, a court of claims in Albany, New York, awarded $300 to a state prisoner who claimed his knee was injured when a guard at the Franklin Correctional Center (FCC) assaulted him during a pat-search. While imprisoned in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Searching Vehicle Of Prison Visitor Suspected Of Illegal Drug Possession Upheld by New Jersey resident Janice Daniels appealed a State court denial of her motion to suppress heroin seized from her vehicle's interior. Mrs, Daniels and her husband were visiting her son who was incarcerated at the Garden State Youth …
Article • May 15, 2007
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Final Settlement Approved In Indiana Strip Search Suit by On December 4, 2002, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana granted final approval of a settlement agreement involving plaintiffs who were illegally strip-searched upon their imprisonment in the Floyd County Jail. The settlement included individual compensation, costs, …
Counsel Appointed to Brief Questions of PLRA Total Exhaustion and Sandin Confinement Conditions for by Counsel Appointed to Brief Questions of PLRA Total Exhaustion and Sandin Confinement Conditions for Atypicality The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that counsel be appointed to New York prisoner Jose Ortiz to brief the …
Aliens May Sue Private Detention Companies Under ATCA by A federal court in New Jersey became the first court to hold that corporations which operate privatized immigration detention facilities may be sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA). The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) contracted with Esmor Correctional Services, …
Kansas Strip-Search Suit Subject to Three-Year Statute of Limitation by Shawn McCormick was arrested in Lawrence Kansas where police subjected him to a strip search and a body cavity search. More than two years later, but less than three, he filed suit in state court under KSA § 22-2523, claiming …
Article • May 15, 2007
Qualified Immunity: An Objective Legal Reasonableness Test by Qualified Immunity: An Objective Legal Reasonableness Test The U.S. Supreme Court held that police officers conducting warrantless searches of innocent third party homes in search of fugitives are entitled to qualified immunity, if objective legal reasonableness is met. Russell Anderson, an agent …
Article • May 15, 2007
Missouri DNA Profiling Program Expanded by In July of 2000, John Clevenger, a Missouri state prisoner serving time for attempted murder, was directed to provide a blood sample for DNA profiling. He complied. Later, he learned that MO. Rev. Stat. § 650.055 allowed the taking of blood only from violent …
Indiana DOC Employee's 4th Amendment Rights Not Violated by Mandatory Psych Evaluation by Kristin Greenawalt, a research analyst for the Indiana Department of Corrections for two years, was suddenly required to submit to a psychological examination or lose her job. She submitted to the exam, which lasted two hours and …
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