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Brief • January 10, 2011
Fields v. Smith, 7th Cir, Plf Reply Brief, WI transgender hormone medical class certification, 2011 Case: 10-2339 Document: 28 Filed: 01/10/2011 Pages: 17 Nos. 10-2339 and 10-2466 In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ANDREA FIELDS, et al. Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. JUDY P. SMITH, et al. …
Class Certification Upheld for Louisiana Toxic Train Derailment Near Prison by On August 21, 2008, a Louisiana appellate court affirmed class certification in a lawsuit involving prisoners and guards who were exposed to toxic chemicals following a train derailment. The train derailed near Eunice, Louisiana on May 27, 2000, and …
Article • July 15, 2010
Ninth Circuit Okays Class Action Against ICE by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed the denial of class certification in a habeas corpus proceeding challenging the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) bond practices in the Central District of California. The suit alleged that ICE was …
Brief • June 23, 2010
Fields v. Smith, 7th Cir, Plf Brief, WI transgender hormone medical class certification, 2010 Nos. 10-2339 and 10-2466 In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ANDREA FIELDS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. JUDY P. SMITH, et al., Defendant-Appellants, Cross Appellees. ) ) ) ) ) ) …
New Jersey: Class-Action Status Granted in Suit Challenging Conditions of Confinement at Passaic County Jail by Michael Brodheim On May 28, 2009, a U.S. District Court granted class-action status to prisoners seeking declaratory and injunctive relief for unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the Passaic County Jail (PCJ) in Paterson, New …
Seventh Circuit Reverses Class Certification in Cook County Jail Case by On September 8, 2008, the Seventh Circuit court of appeals reversed an Illinois federal district court's class certification in a suit over delay in the release of an arrestee while family members were attempting to post bond. Robert Harper …
Cook County Strip, Body Cavity Searches Held Unconstitutional; Other Suits Pending by Brandon Sample On February 23, 2009, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew F. Kennelly granted partial summary judgment to the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit challenging certain strip and visual body cavity searches conducted at Illinois’ Cook County …
Washington State Makes Work Release Available to Disabled Prisoners; Monetary Payments to Class Members by The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that results in not only a policy change but monetary payments …
Prison Health Care, Political Choice and the Accidental Death Penalty in Michigan by Elizabeth Alexander by Elizabeth Alexander1 In Hadix v. Caruso, I represent a class of prisoners in a decades-long case challenging conditions of confinement, including medical care, at various Michigan prison facilities.2 Since August 2006 I have been …
Hadix Litigation Winding Down by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After nearly thirty years, a class-action lawsuit challenging conditions of confinement at the State Prison of Southern Michigan-Center Complex is on the cusp of ending. The end is in sight not because prison officials have fully complied with a …
Article • December 15, 2009
Illinois Federal Court Refuses to Dismiss Chicago Jail Strip Search Suit by On September 15, 2008, a federal court in Illinois denied a motion to dismiss by the Sheriff of Cook County and Cook County, Illinois, in a suit involving the strip searching of prisoners returning from court appearances. Charles …
LA Agrees To Pay $12,550,000 To Settle Police Brutality Suit by The City of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $12,550,000 to settle a class action suit brought by protesters who were injured and intimidated by the LAPD during a May 1, 2007, march protesting the treatment of immigrants and …
Article • September 15, 2009
California Prisoner Rights Cases Projected To Cost State $8 Billion Over Five Years by Eight judgments in class-action prisoners' rights actions during the last dozen years are projected to add $8 billion in costs to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) budget over the next five years. It …
Article • July 15, 2009
Class Claims for Injunctive Relief in HPC Suit Dismissed as Moot by U.S. District Judge Noel L. Hillman has dismissed as moot class claims brought by a group of New Jersey prisoners alleged to have been unreasonably exposed to Hepatitis C (HPC). Walter Bennett on behalf of all others similarly …
Connecticut Settles Overcrowding Suit by The State of Connecticut in the early 1980s agreed to settle a suit over the overcrowding at the Somers Correctional Facility. Joseph Letezeio individually and on behalf of all those similarly situated at Somers sued the State of Connecticut alleging that the overcrowding and other …
Montana Agrees to Improve Prison Conditions for Female Prisoners by On November 22, 1994, the State of Montana agreed to settle a class action suit brought by female prisoners incarcerated at the Women’s Correctional Center (WCC). The plaintiffs alleged that the state (1) was deliberately indifferent to their serious health …
Connecticut Settles Suit Over Conditions at Somers Facility; $190,000 in Fees and Costs Paid by In 1996, the parties in a class action suit over the conditions at the Connecticut Correctional Institution in Somers entered into a settlement agreement. The settlement came after significant improvements were made at Somers over …
Eighth Circuit Allows Termination of Minnesota Prison Health Care Consent Decree by On November 21, 2008, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a federal district court's order terminating the Hines Consent Decree covering prison medical care in the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC). In 1973, Howard Lansing Hines and …
$875,001 Verdict in Beating of Massachusetts Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Finding that a guard at Massachusetts’ Suffolk County House of Correction (SCHC) had violated a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment rights and committed assault and battery, a federal jury awarded the prisoner $875,001 in damages. The 121-page complaint …
Ninth Circuit: County Contractor that Counsels Bad-Check Writers Not Entitled to State Sovereign Immunity from Suit by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that a private firm hired by a California county to run a diversion program for bad-check writers was …
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