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Article • May 15, 2007
Denial of Newspaper and Medical Care States Claim by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that a district erred in denying IFP status to a federal pretrial detainee in Texas who claimed he was denied medical attention following his arrest. The plaintiff also claimed the jail banned …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches
Prisoners Retain Some Right to Bodily Privacy by The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit held that a Michigan prisoner had stated a claim for violation of his religious right to "modesty" in challenging a prison practice of giving women guards full access to a men's prison where they …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prevailing Pro Se Prisoners Entitled to Costs, But Not Fees by Successful pro se prisoner litigants are entitled to costs under FRCP 54(d). They are not entitled to attorney fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988. A Female prisoner in Missouri and prison employee she later married filed suit claiming they …
Article • May 15, 2007
Special Master Authority Limited by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit granted a writ of mandamus to prison officials, holding the lower court lacked jurisdiction to order California prison official defendants to allow a special master to inspect the New Folsom prison, a prison not encompassed by the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Jail Denial of Mattress States Claim, Okay to Strip Search Violent Arrestees by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a California pretrial detainee had stated a claim when he filed suit over the denial of a bed or mattress on the Los Angeles jail due to …
Article • May 15, 2007
Unsanitary Food, Contaminated Water State Claim by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that allegations of unsanitary food handling and polluted water in an Arizona prison stated a claim. The district court erred in dismissing the suit as frivolous. Not a ruling on the merits. See: Jackson …
Article • May 15, 2007
Witness Protection Program Prisoners Double Celled by Witness protection Program Prisoners Double Celled The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that BOP prisoners in Minnesota who are in the witness protection program had no right not to be double celled. No breach of contract claim existed. The lower …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Okay to Stamp Mail as Originating in Jail by A federal district court in Virginia dismissed as frivolous a lawsuit challenging a jail practice of stamping outgoing envelopes as having originated in a jail. All courts to consider this practice have upheld it. See: Rogers v. Isom, 709 F. Supp. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Right to Prison Abortions Unclear by The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit held that BOP officials J in Kentucky were properly granted qualified immunity for denying a prisoner an abortion after she requested one. Note that since this ruling other courts have held prisoners and pretrial detainees have …
Religious Headgear Ban Upheld by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit upheld Missouri prison if rules banning Moorish Science Temple prisoners from wearing a fez and rules requiring a prison guard to attend all religious services held by prisoners. The court gives ample discussion to religious rights in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Questions Prison Administrative Remedies by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a federal prisoner in Missouri's lawsuit should be stayed while he exhausted administrative remedies. This is no longer good law since the PLRA was enacted. Court's comment is useful: "We question whether any adequate …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Money/Property, Forfeiture
Statutory Forfeiture of Prison Cash Upheld by The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit upheld the confiscation of $2,197.40 in cash from a Florida prisoner. Court held that a state statute allowing forfeiture of cash found in prisoners' possession was unconstitutional. As a general rule, forfeiture of prisoner funds …
Article • May 15, 2007
Cost Bills Must Be Opposed in Timely Manner by The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that failure to oppose a bill of costs within the FRCP's time limits waive any objections to the costs. The court held, in this Indiana case, that prisoners per se are not …
No Attorney Fees for Prisoner Paralegal by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a Nebraska prisoner paralegal was not entitled to attorney fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 after he successfully challenged prison law library adequacy. Prisoner was awarded limited costs, affirmed on appeal. See: Davis …
Article • May 15, 2007
Out of State Counsel Entitled to Full Fees, Costs by The court of appeals for the First circuit held that the Rhode Island prisoners who prevailed in a prison conditions of confinement suit were entitled to attorney fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 for their out of state lawyers. The …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Right to Interest Bearing Accounts by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that Missouri prisoners have no right to open or continue making bank deposits into interest bearing accounts. Prisons are not obligated to pay interest on trust fund accounts. Note that other courts have held …
Article • May 15, 2007
Mail Between Prisoner and Former Prison Employee Allowed by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit granted habeas relief to a wheelchair bound, paraplegic BOP prisoner in Missouri who was denied correspondence with a former female BOP employee he became romantically involved with. The court held that on the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Catalyst Theory Allows Fees in Strip Search Suit by The court of appeals for the Fourth circuit held that a plaintiff who voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Virginia jail strip search policy, after state law was changed to ban such searches, was entitled to attorney fees for time spent …
Article • May 15, 2007
Attorney Fees Awarded in OK Jail Suit by The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit affirmed an attorney fee award of $144,930.43 to prisoners who successfully sued over conditions in the Tulsa, Oklahoma jail. Court held prisoners' counsel was entitled to a fee enhancement. See: Clayton v. Thurman, 775 …
Transferred Prisoners Entitled to Sending States Good Time Credits and Benefits by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that an Arkansas prisoner transferred to Florida under the Interstate Corrections Compact was entitled to all good time credits and other benefits he would have received had he remained …
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