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Seventh Circuit Affirms Prison Policy Banning Adult Magazines, with Caveats by Derek Gilna Tobias Payton, a prisoner at the Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, was denied access to a number of adult magazines depicting naked or scantily clad women, and filed suit in federal court alleging violation of his First …
Brief • July 6, 2016
An v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, 1st Am video of police, 2016 Case 1:16-cv-05381 Document 1 Filed 07/06/16 Page 1 of 21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK RUBEN AN, Document Electronically Filed Plaintiff, COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL v. THE CITY OF NEW …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Newspaper Ban at Cook County Jail Violates First Amendment by Derek Gilna Although courts give broad latitude to corrections officials to restrict access to materials that might negatively impact institutional security, that latitude does not generally extend to blanket bans on newspapers. On July 6, 2015, a federal district court …
Article • May 13, 2016
Florida Prison’s “Widespread Retaliation” Against Writ Writers Claim Proceeds Forward by David Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment in a prisoner’s civil rights action alleging the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has a widespread practice and custom of transferring prisoners in retaliation for …
Brief • May 13, 2016
Filed under: Attorney, First Amendment
Cruz et al v. English Nanny and Governess School et al, OH, Amicus Brief - ACLU OH, extrajudicial attorney speech sanctions, 2016 NAILAH K. BYRD CUYAHOGA COUNTY CUERK OF COURTS 1200 Ontario Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Court of Appeals MOTION Electronically Filed: May 13, 2016 17:00 By: RAYMOND VASVARI 0055538 …
Brief • May 13, 2016
Filed under: Attorneys, First Amendment
Cruz et al v. English Nanny and Governess School et al, OH, Amicus Brief - First Amendment Lawyers Association, extrajudicial attorney speech sanctions, 2016 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH APPELLATE DISTRICT CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO CHRISTINA CRUZ, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ENGLISH NANNY AND GOVERNESS SCHOOL, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees. …
$30,000 Settlement for New York Prisoner Assaulted by Guard by A New York state prisoner received almost $30,000 to settle a civil rights action alleging he was assaulted by a guard at the Fishkill Correctional Facility. Prisoner Mayer Sadian, an orthodox Jew, approached a guard on May 14, 2011 in …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Suit Filed Over New Hampshire DOC’s Restrictive Mail Policy by On December 18, 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union and the law firm of Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer and Nelson, P.A. filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a three-year-old child and his grandmother, claiming that the New Hampshire Department of …
Brief • April 28, 2016
Ogden v. Figgins, KS, Complaint, Mail Allowed, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-02268 Document 1 Filed 04/28/16 Page 1 of 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS RUSSELL K. OGDEN, BEATRICE HAMMER, and JOHN SMITH, on behalf of themselves and a class of persons similarly situated; Plaintiffs, v. PETE FIGGINS, …
Brief • April 27, 2016
Basler v. Barron et al, Opinion and Order, TX, video of on duty police assault, 2016 Case 4:15-cv-02254 Document 24 Filed in TXSD on 04/27/16 Page 1 of 13 United States District Court Southern District of Texas ENTERED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION GENE GERARD …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
South Carolina Sheriff Resigns, Pleads Guilty to DUI by In 2012, a historic $599,000 settlement was reached between Prison Legal News and then-Berkeley County, South Carolina Sheriff Wayne DeWitt after the Berkeley County jail rejected PLN’s monthly publication and books mailed to prisoners at the facility. At the time, the …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Prison’s Censorship of Newsweek Upheld by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a grant of summary judgment to prison officials in a First Amendment challenge to the censorship of a magazine because it contained an article that reported violence and disorder in Mexico involving drug cartels. Missouri prisoner Joseph …
Brief • March 22, 2016
Y.F. v. Wrenn, NH, Amended Complaint, Censorship of Drawings, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-00510-PB Document 9 Filed 03/22/16 Page 1 of 21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ____________________________________ ) Y.F., individually and as next of friend ) of minor C.F., and Catherine Menninger, ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. …
Filing • March 14, 2016
Filed under: Censorship, First Amendment
PLN v AGPA, PA, BIO to Def MTD and ISO PI Motion, Silencing Act, 2015 Case 1:15-cv-00045-CCC Document 38 Filed 02/17/15 Page 1 of 33 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA PRISON LEGAL NEWS, DANIEL DENVIR, PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER, CHRISTOPHER MORAFF, PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY, …
Filing • March 14, 2016
Filed under: Censorship, First Amendment
PLN v Kane, PA, BIS of Mot Prel Injunction, 1st Am Revictimization Relief Act, 2015 Case 1:15-cv-00045-CCC Document 41 Filed 02/17/15 Page 1 of 52 Case 1:15-cv-00045-CCC Document 41 Filed 02/17/15 Page 2 of 52 Case 1:15-cv-00045-CCC Document 41 Filed 02/17/15 Page 3 of 52 Case 1:15-cv-00045-CCC Document 41 Filed …
Article • March 7, 2016
Filed under: Computers, First Amendment
California Prisons Are Deleting Records of Social Media Censorship by Dave Maass By Dave Maass Facebook Rightfully Questions Claims That California Inmates Are Banned from Having a Social Media Presence Up until last spring, Facebook had maintained a semi-secret channel for corrections facilities to file "Inmate Takedown" requests. A prison official could …
Federal Judge Refuses to Dismiss Suit Filed by Widow of Workplace-Harassed Prison Guard by Derek Gilna California state prison guard Scott Jones committed suicide in 2011, leaving a note that said, “the job made me do it.” His wife, Janelle Jones, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the California …
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
$1,001 Default Judgment in Michigan - Prisoner’s Retaliation Suit by In March 2015, a Michigan prisoner was awarded $1,001 in a First Amendment retaliation claim following entry of a default judgment. Prisoner Deontae J. Gordon’s problems began when he asked “Defendant Little,” a librarian’s assistant at the Oaks Correctional Facility, …
Publication • February 25, 2016
Filed under: First Amendment, Police
Punishing Protest - Government Tactics that Suppress Free Speech, National Lawyers Guild, 2007 fold My neighbors told me the agents who had come to our building said that they were investigating a “domestic terrorism” situation. Upon hearing this I felt shocked, then sickened. This was the beginning of the most …
Brief • February 19, 2016
Fields v. City of Philadelphia, PA, Memo Opinion, False Arrest Video On-Duty Police, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA RICHARD FIELDS CIVIL ACTION . v. NO: 14-4424 CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et al CIVIL ACTION AMANDA GERACI v. NO: 14-5264 CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et …
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