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Article • August 15, 2008
Artwork Sold on City Grounds Protected by First Amendment; No Permit Required by The City of Sparks, Nevada appealed a district court ruling that allowed artist Steven White to display and sell his paintings in parks and Victoria Square without a permit or prior permission from the City. The appellate …
Ninth Circuit: Prisoner’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Classification Claims Fail Sandin Test by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, applying the “atypical and significant hardship” test of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1995), affirmed a U.S. District Court’s (N.D. Cal.) ruling that …
Article • July 15, 2008
Sixth Circuit Reverses Denial of Complaint Amendment by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court’s order denying a Tennessee prisoner leave to amend his complaint to substitute actual parties for Doe Defendants. In July 1996, Tennessee prisoner Alexander Friedmann (PLN’s Associate Editor) requested to have a notice …
Article • July 15, 2008
Oregon Death Row Prisoner Awards Victims $58.5 Million by In September, 2007, an Oregon death row prisoner settled a wrongful death action brought by his victim’s family. The deal awards the family approximately $58.5 million, barring the prisoner from profiting from the story of his crimes. Just before Christmas, 2001, …
Article • July 15, 2008
Oregon PRL Requires Disclosure of Records for Cop's Disciplinary Action for shooting Civilian by The Oregon Publishing Co. (newspaper) sued the city of Portland, Oregon in state court under state Public Records Laws (PRL), Ore. Rev. Stat. § 192.420 et sec, to compel disclosure of records pertaining to the fatal …
Article • July 15, 2008
Prison Music Program Not Constitutionally Required by A Pennsylvania federal district court has held that limitations imposed by prison officials on prisoners performing in “independent” music programs do not violate the constitution. The ruling came after a three-day non-jury trial in a civil rights action filed by prisoner Richard Young. …
Article • July 15, 2008
Disclosure Of Arizona Investigative Reports Involved In Active Litigation Statutorily Denied by Maricopa County (Arizona) Attorney Thomas Collins appealed a 1987 court ruling granting the production of investigative police reports involved in active ongoing litigation to the media. He also appealed the media's award of attorney's fees and costs which …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright The past several months have been even busier than usual for PLN. In addition to getting the magazine published each month we have seen an upsurge in censorship activities in prisons and jails around the country. As noted in this issue of PLN, after …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
PLN Sues Massachusetts DOC Over Book Ban, Added to Approved List One Week Later by For the past five years Prison Legal News has been unable to sell or distribute books to prisoners in Massachusetts because PLN was not on the Dept. of Correction’s (DOC) approved vendor list. Massachusetts prisoners …
Article • June 15, 2008
IN ARPA Required City to Disclose Cellular Phone Records of Public Officials; $3,400 Awarded in Atty Fees by AGENDA: OPEN GOVERNMENT, Inc. (Agenda) publishes a newsletter in Elkhart, Indiana (City). Its publisher requested of the City the cellular phone records of certain public officials, pursuant to the state Access to …
Article • June 15, 2008
Montana Newspaper Entitled to Fees Incurred to Obtain Copies of Documents by The Havre Daily News (newspaper), a Montana subchapter of a Washington corporation, sued the city of Havre, Montana in state court under Mont. Const. art. II § 9 to compel disclosure of an unredacted incident report. During litigation …
Shustring Productions Inc. v. Salinas, TX, Settlement, Freedom of the Press, 2008 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS LAREDO DIVISION § § § v. § § RAUL SALINAS and CITY OF LAREDO § SHUSTRING PRODUCTIONS, INC. d/b/a LareDOS PUBLISHING Civil Action No. 5:08-CV-00120 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT & RELEASE A. …
Publication • 2008
California Banned Books List - 2008
My Space Becomes “No Space” for Online Sex Offenders by David Reutter My Space Becomes "No Space" for Online Sex Offenders by David M. Reutter After online social networking giant MySpace.com, under pressure, disclosed on July 24, 2007 that it had purged 29,000 sex offender profiles from its website, state …
Washington DOC Pays PLN $541,000 for Illegally Withholding Records by Michael Rigby The Washington Department of Corrections will pay Prison Legal News $541,000 for illegally withholding public records. It is the largest records-related settlement in Washington state history, and it brings the total amount PLN has won against the state …
Article • May 15, 2008
IN DOC Ban on Typewriters Upheld by Prisoners do not have a right to possess typewriters and word processors; the right of court access is satisfied by providing basic materials, such as pens and paper, for the preparation of legal materials. The fact that prisoners were permitted to possess these …
Brief • May 2, 2008
Sikelianos v. Citv ofNew York. ef al., NY, Letter to Judge to compel Associated Press to produce photographs, May 2, 2008 Jeffrey A. Rothman Attorney at Law 315 Broadway, Suite 200 New York, NY 10007 Tel.: (212) 227-2980; Cell: (516) 455-6873 Fax: (212) 591-6343 rothman.jefiey@gmail.com May 2,2008 Bv Hand The …
ADX Media Visit Staged To Dispel "Myths And Rumors" by Bob Williams On the sixth anniversary of the 9-11 World Trade Center attacks, Ron Wiley, warden of the Federal Supermax known as ADX, staged a tightly controlled first-ever media visit at the Federal stronghold. Its stated purpose was an education …
Washington State Opens Environmentally-Friendly Control Unit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In October 2007, the Monroe Correctional Complex (MCC), Washington State's largest prison, opened the first prison building in Washington State to be certified as "green" by the U.S. Green Building Council. The unit, a new segregation building with …
Head on a Skewer by Paul Rubin Joe Arpaio was so obsessed with getting a hard-charging New Times writer prosecuted that he badgered Andy Thomas into making a fool of himself Phoenix New Times By Paul Rubin Published: March 20, 2008 On May 2, 2005, a prosecutor and an investigator …
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