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Article • December 27, 2017
Third Circuit Denies Prisoner's Due Process Claim, Upholds Retaliation Claim by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has denied a parolable prisoner's due process claim, but upheld his claim of retaliation by a prison guard. The prisoner, Phillip Lee Fantone, was …
Article • December 27, 2017
$34,000 Settles Nevada Prisoner's Suit by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal filed by a Nevada state prisoner as moot after it ruled he had settled his case following judgment. The judgment marked a third win for this prison rights litigant, …
Article • December 27, 2017
Filed under: Food, Religious Diet
Indiana DOC Must Offer Passover Diet by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton The Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) agreed after being sued to provide a Passover diet to a prisoner who was denied the meals under a prison policy that said prisoners not on a kosher diet the remainder of …
Article • December 27, 2017
Filed under: Overdetention, Immigration
$10,000 Settlement to Citizen Detained by ICE by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton   In 2007 the United States of America agreed to pay $10,000 to man who was illegally detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for three days in early 2006 on the mistaken belief the man was …
Brief • December 27, 2017
Filed under: Class Notice
Simmons v. Fallin, OK, Order, 2017 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA GLYNN SIMMONS, et al., Plaintiff, v. MARY FALLIN, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. CIV-17-908-SLP ORDER Before the Court is the Report and Recommendation …
Brief • December 27, 2017
Filed under: False Arrest
Johnson v. Cox, IL, Complaint, False Arrest, 2017 Case: 1:17-cv-09299 Document #: 1 Filed: 12/27/17 Page 1 of 16 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION GREGORY JOHNSON, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER BRYAN COX, …
Article • December 26, 2017
Filed under: Food, Telephones
Maine DOC's Dirty Trick in Prisoner Lawsuit Challenging Food and Phone by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The legal eagles at the Maine Department of Corrections have successfully okie-doked prisoner Kevin J. Collins out of $150 in his lawsuit challenging food services and the prison's telephone system. Collins filed his …
Article • December 26, 2017
Filed under: Immigration
Eighth Circuit Upholds Immigration Detention of American Citizen by Matthew Clarke On February 21, 2017, the Eight Circuit court of appeals affirmed the dismissal of a civil rights lawsuit brought by an American citizen who was held over a weekend in a Nebraska jail on an immigration detainer. Ramon Mendoza …
Article • December 26, 2017
MA Supreme Court: Registration Not Mandatory for Juvenile Sex Offenders by Matthew Clarke On February 17, 2017, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that sex offender registration and GPS monitoring were not mandatory for a juvenile who had been convicted of a sex offense and adjudicated both as a …
Article • December 26, 2017
$15,000 to Wisconsin Jail Prisoner for Medical Neglect by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A former Wisconsin jail prisoner settled his medical neglect lawsuit for $15,000. After Brian Shebelske had been incarcerated at the Marathon County Jail for twenty months, he had to be transported to the hospital emergency room …
Article • December 26, 2017
Vermont Supreme Court: Home Detention Doesn't Count as Time Served by The Vermont Supreme Court affirmed a trial court’s ruling that a pretrial releasee subjected to a 24-hour home detention curfew with exceptions as a condition of release was not entitled to credit for time served on release because he …
Article • December 26, 2017
Arkansas Court Must Make Findings of Fact to Order Incarceration Costs by The Arkansas Supreme Court remanded for findings of fact an order that allowed the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) to confiscate a prisoner’s lawsuit proceeds as reimbursement for costs associated with incarceration. Dexter J. Harmon, who has been …
Article • December 26, 2017
Kosher Diet Denial Reasonable, Religious Headwear Confiscation Not by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded in part a New York federal district court’s summary judgment on a §1983 complaint against the New York State Department of Correctional Service (DOCS). In the complaint Arrello Barnes, a prisoner, alleged …
Article • December 26, 2017
Claim of Right to Counsel Infringement Survives in Detainees’ Claim of Recorded Attorney Calls by A Florida federal district court granted in part and denied in part a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a civil rights action that alleged the sheriff of Broward County violated the constitutional attorney-client privileges …
Article • December 26, 2017
SCOTUS: IDEA Exhaustion Applies Only if Suit is Educational by The U.S. Supreme Court vacated a Federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeal’s dismissal of a civil discrimination suit filed against a public school for alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which occurred when the defendants refused to …
Article • December 26, 2017
A NY Supreme Court Certifies for Persons Held on ICE Detainers Past Scheduled Release. by A New York Supreme Court certified a class in a lawsuit alleging the New York Department of Corrections (DOC) falsely imprisoned over 9,000 persons with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers. The class consists …
Article • December 26, 2017
Superintendent with Shady History of Supervision Hired by Another Jail by In the midst of an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into whether South Carolina’s Hampton Roads Regional Jail (HRRJ) was violating detainees’ civil rights and breaking disability laws by depriving them of medical and mental health care, HRRJ’s …
Article • December 26, 2017
Supreme Court of Oklahoma Rules Compulsory Debt to Be Paid by Appropriation by The Supreme Court of Oklahoma affirmed a trial court’s ruling granting summary judgment to Armor Correctional Health Services for the award of payment for medical services provided to Oklahoma prisoners and detainees. The court retained the appeal …
Tidwell v. Asselmeier, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 Case 3:16-cv-00041-DWD Document 119 Filed 12/26/17 Page 1 of 16 Page ID #808 In the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Cleo Tidwell, Plaintiff, v. Dr. Asselmeier, Dr. Trost, Steven Newbold, D.M.D., and Dr. John Doe, Defendants. ) …
Article • December 22, 2017
Willful Violation of Tennessee FOIA Occurs by Requiring Unauthorized Fees by A Tennessee state appellate court reversed a trial court’s ruling that a custodian of records’ denial of access to public records was “not willful." The court found the denial was “willful." Where the prior ruling prevented the trial court from …
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