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Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
California Parole Violators' Due Process Rights Upheld in Settlement by California Parole Violators' Due Process Rights Upheld in Settlement In a November 17, 2003 Stipulated Or-der for Permanent Injunctive Relief (PI), defendant California prison officials settled a nine-year old federal class action suit brought by parolees whose due process rights …
Administrative Exhaustion Required in Pre-PLRA BOP Phone Suit by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the administrative remedies exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) must be met even where a court approved settlement reached prior to the PLRA's enactment does not so require. …
Brief • December 30, 2003
Brooks v. WDOC, WA, Order dismissing case due to settlement, PLRA, 2003 , ~. '. lICK 13:1U FAX' 12/15/03 ~ . 1 ·1-·~:3::~\· 2 3 , 4 . lf1i1S'Nr~~&em:fT~ ---- , 1 'Iha HBS1O&'8b1e ROBBRT J. BRYAN 8 . 9 10 . 11 1JNlTBD STATES DI8TIlIC1'COYlR.T WESrBRNDJ8nu;crOJlWASBINGTON AT TACOMA. . …
Temporary Injunction Issued in Alabama Suit by On June 26, 2003, the parties in Baker v. Campbell agreed to the entry of a temporary preliminary injunction which, among other things, provides for "immediate" and "adequate" medical care for Alabama prisoners with serious illnesses. The "Preliminary Injunction Settlement Agreement" stems from …
Alabama DOC Settles Mental Health Class Action by James Quigley The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama approved a settlement agreement between a class of prisoners, defined as "all acutely or severely mentally ill male inmates who are presently or will in the future be incarcerated in …
Alaska Prisoners' Benefits Extended to Arizona by The Supreme Court of Alaska sustained a lower court's ruling which provisionally allowed Alaska prisoners to be transferred to an Arizona prison, required the Arizona facility to comply with Alaska's prison overcrowding settlement agreement, and found the Alaska prisoners' challenge to the process …
California Pays $1.1 Million in Prison Sexual Harassment Suits by In August 2002, California prison officials agreed to pay a settlement of $400,000 to former guard Terri Sanchez in the latest in a series of suits for aggravated sexual harassment filed by female guards at the California Correctional Center in …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
$4.47 Million in Washington Negligent Supervision Settlements and Verdicts by Washington State recently settled or was found liable in three separate law suits alleging that it negligently supervised probationers or parolees. Negligent supervision cases are not new in Washington. Since 2000, the State either settled or was ordered to pay …
New Mexico Lawyers Entitled to Jail Visiting, Phone and Records Access by A New Mexico federal district court has entered a preliminary injunction that enjoins jail officials from prohibiting class counsel from having access to the jail, its prisoners and staff, its records, and from imposing time limits on telephone …
$10 Million Settlement in Boston Strip Search Suit by On July 8, 2002, both Suffolk County and the City of Boston entered into a settlement agreement to pay $10 million for violating the equal protection rights of female detainees at the Suffolk County Jail who, unlike similarly situated male detainees, …
All California Prisoners Win Upgraded Medical Care by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On January 25, 2002, the California Department of Corrections (CDC) entered into a settlement in a class action lawsuit that will upgrade medical care for 157,000 prisoners at all 33 California state prisons. Following the …
Texas' Historic Ruiz Lawsuit Settled by Donna Brorby by Donna Brorby and Meredith Martin Rountree One of the biggest prison class actions of our time is over. As appeals by both sides were pending in the Fifth Circuit, the historic Ruiz class action lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal …
PLRA Does Not Apply to Juvenile Facilities; $379,000 Attorney Fees and Costs Awarded by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal district court in South Dakota has held the PLRA attorney fees provision does not apply to juvenile facilities, and awarded $379,000 in attorney fees and costs. The court …
Brief • November 15, 2002
Filed under: Settlements
Washington v. San Diego, CA, Complaint, $400k Settlement, 2006 Case 3:02-cv-00143-LAB-JMA Document 21 Filed 11/15/2002 Page 1 of 24 Case 3:02-cv-00143-LAB-JMA Document 21 Filed 11/15/2002 Page 2 of 24 Case 3:02-cv-00143-LAB-JMA Document 21 Filed 11/15/2002 Page 3 of 24 Case 3:02-cv-00143-LAB-JMA Document 21 Filed 11/15/2002 Page 4 of 24 Case …
Motion Accepted as Appeal Notice; Damage Award Set Off Against Costs by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a pro se motion must be accepted as a notice of appeal if it states the intent to appeal, and that a jury's damage award could be set off …
Deaths in Florida and Virginia Jails Spark National Investigations by Gary Hunter The badly bloated body of Kathy Kearns was removed from her Virginia Beach jail cell in the early morning hours of April 26, 2001. Testimony from witnesses and evidence from jail and city records show that Kearns desperately …
Sanction for Lawyers' Exposing Secret Wackenhut Sexual Abuse Settlement Upheld by by Matthew T. Clarke The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the district court's sanctions against the prisoners' lawyers in a suit against Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC) after the lawyers revealed the terms of a secret settlement …
Montana Supreme Court Upholds Refusal to Seal Settlement Agreement by The Montana Supreme Court held that prevailing party did not establish that privacy rights of parties outweighed the public's right to know what costs it incurred in a settlement agreement. Steve Pengra brought suit against Montana, contending that the State's …
Wisconsin Ban on Sexually Explicit Materials Unconstitutional by Bob Williams The Federal District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has denied a motion for summary judgment finding the Wisconsin Department of Corrections' (WDOC) ban on sexually explicit materials violated prisoners' First Amendment freedom of speech and Fourteenth Amendment due …
$400,000 Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Failure to Protect Suit by On April 19, 2001, the insurer for the Garfield county jail in Oklahoma agreed to pay $400,000 to a former jail prisoner who was attacked and beaten by his cellmate. On April 26, 1998, Larry Thomas, then 58, was imprisoned …
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