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Prison Health Services: A Spotty Record of Health Care For Children in City Detention

Article • December 15, 2003

Filed under: Juveniles, Juvenile Prisons

believe what a doctor in the city's juvenile justice system had done to the girl standing before her in Brooklyn Family Court. The girl, Tiffany S., was 14, with a history of suicide threats and a set ...

Smith v. Cummings-445 F.3d 1254 (10th Cir. 2006)

Case • 2006

shall not be different in kind from or exceed in amount that prayed for in the demand for judgment."(emphasis added). Because Rule 54(c) does not mean what Mr. Smith thinks it means and he has ...

Koch v. Cox-489 F.3d 384 (DC Cir. 2007)

Case • 2007

a patient has waived the privilege but it must be a standard that does not eviscerate the privilege. [34] The parties provide extensive briefing on what they both see, in the decisions of various ...

Jackson v. Ivens-244 Fed.Appx. 508 (3d Cir. 2007)

Case • 2007

. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY In June of 1998, while incarcerated at Sussex Correctional Institute, Jackson fell in a prison kitchen. Prison doctors treated him for what they assumed was a back injury ...

United States v. Du, 476 F.3d 1168 (10th Cir. 2007)-476 F.3d 1168

Case • 2007

adopted what it called an "employment verification policy." The new policy was subsequently approved by Colorado's federal district judges. [41] Under the new policy, probation officers no longer ...

Fountain v. United States-211 F.3d 429 (7th Cir. 2000)

Case • 2000

, the trial judge was not required to sustain an objection in light of the court's strong interest in maintaining courtroom security and its wide discretion in determining when and what restraints are required ...

Johnson v. Meadows-418 F.3d 1152 (11th Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

or the good cause standard of Georgia's administrative grievance procedures before filing a federal claim. This issue is one of first impression in our circuit and essentially asks what exhaustion requires ...

Wilson v. Town of Mendon-194 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

or to decide what deference, if any, we owe to the Director's views in this case. Cf. Neely v. Benefits Rev. Bd., 139 F.3d 276, 281 (1st Cir. 1998); Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 978 F.2d at 757. [37] We sustain ...

Easter v. Powell-467 F.3d 459 (5th Cir. 2006)

Case • 2006

" if it is "sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he [or she] is doing violates that right."*fn28 [29] However, "[t]his is not to say that an official action is protected ...

Brown v. Miller-519 F.3d 231 (5th Cir. 2008).

Case • 2008

on the blood results, the line-up identification, and what he alleges was a false and coerced confession, Brown was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Brown alleges that all of the wrongful actions ...

Hudak v. Miller-28 F.Supp.2d 827 (SD NY 1998)

Case • 1998

Presbyterian [*830] Hospital for repair of the aneurysm. Hudak underwent successful surgery to contain the aneurysm at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital on February 20, 1996, and has experienced only what he ...

Munz v. Michael-28 F.3d 795 (8th Cir. 1994)

Case • 1994

glasses off, and then lifted up and carried by jailers and marshals. . . . The jailers and Marshals carried [Munz] into what is referred to as a padded cell. . . . Before entering the padded cell, a Marshal ...

Moscato v. Federal Bureau of Prisons-98 F.3d 757 (3rd Cir. 1996)

Case • 1996

of administrative review because of his failure to file a timely appeal. This appeal requires us to determine what effect such a procedural default has upon a federal prisoner's request for habeas corpus relief under ...

Moorman v. Thalacker-83 F.3d 970 (8th Cir. 1996)

Case • 1996

(as to what constitutes a "plan") that is ultimately found to be correct, the question is certainly arguable and open to debate. Freitas does not set out clearly established guidelines as to which verbal ...

Antoine v. Byers & Anderson-113 S. Ct. 2167 (1993)

Case • 1993

, for inclusion in the official record, 28 U.S.C. § 753(b), common-law judges exercise discretion and judgment in deciding exactly what and how much they will write. Early judicial notetakers, for instance, left ...

In re Thompson-418 F.3d 362 (3rd Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

of this Bankruptcy Code provision and federalism doctrine as expounded by the Supreme Court in Kelly v. Robinson, 479 U.S. 36 (1986). Having determined that the Supreme Court meant what it said in Kelly when it held ...

Aikens v. Jenkins-534 f. 2d 751 (7th Cir. 1976)

Case • 1976

may be inhibited from ordering or subscribing for the material. Cf. Lamont v. Postmaster General, 381 U.S. 301, 307, 14 L. Ed. 2d 398, 85 S. Ct. 1493 (1965). [17] 2. [18] What we have said ...

Beatty v. Goord-210 F.Supp.2d 250 (S.D.N.Y. 2000)

Case • 2000

the PLRA, applied the exhaustion requirement to all actions brought by prisoners with respect to prison conditions . . . regardless of what relief is sought"), and Nyhuis, 204 F.3d 65, 66-67 ("we hold ...

Johnson v. Testman-380 F.3d 691 (2nd Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

, asked Johnson what he was doing with them, and after hearing his reply, told the inmates that he was terminating barber shop services for the day because of Johnson's use of the clippers. When inmate Elio ...

Berg v. Washington-Wn. App. Div. 1, No.54104-8-1 (2005)

Case • 2005

with the Department's argument, but did not alter its award. As to bad faith, the court's letter ruling stated: I've not been able to evaluate what was redacted from various records in relation to good faith or bad ...