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Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
New York Jail Good Time Statute Held Constitutional by The U.S. Supreme Court held a New York good-time statute to be constitutional. New York prisoners brought action against state prison officials alleging violation of the Equal Protection Clause. Under § 230(3) of the New York Correction Law, prisoners were not …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoners Have No Liberty Interest in Prison Housing Assignment by Prisoners Have No Liberty Interest In Prison Housing Assignment The U.S. Supreme Court held that prisoners do not have a liberty interest in their prison housing assignments. A Massachusetts prisoner brought an action in federal district court alleging deprivation of …
Article • May 15, 2007
Attorney Fee Award, 30 Day Punitive Isolation Limit Upheld by The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision wherein plaintiff prisoners' attorney fees were levied against the Arkansas Department of Correction and limits placed on time spent in punitive isolation. After a U.S. district court found conditions in the …
Due Process Clause Not Implicated by Guard's Negligence by The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Federal Appeals Court decision that the Fourteenth Amendment does not afford protection to a person in custody when injury results from the negligence of a state official. After injuring himself in a fall caused by …
Supreme Court: No Right to Counsel or Cross Examination in Disciplinary Hearings by Baxter v. Palmigiano consolidates two separate actions, 74-1194 & 74-1187, in which state prisoners filed civil rights suits as a result of prison disciplinary procedures. Action no. 74-1194 was filed by prisoners in California's San Quentin prison …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoners Have Right to Notice of Rules by The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that prisoners in custody of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) do have right to advance notice of rules and orders promulgated by DOCS, DOCS' prison wardens, or prison supervisors before the rules …
Article • May 15, 2007
Beard Length Restriction Upheld, Prior Ruling Reversed by The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing its prior ruling in the same case, upheld a rule by the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) restricting prisoners' beards to one inch in length. Yevgen Fromer, a observant Orthodox Jew, sued …
Article • May 15, 2007
Tennessee Disenfranchisement Law Upheld by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal district court's dismissal of a case claiming that the Tennessee Voting Rights Act of 1981 violated the Federal Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982 and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Charles …
JNOV New Trial Denied in Indiana Jail's Suicide Watch Policy by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana denied motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) and for new trial in a case involving a jail's suicide watch policy. James L. Bird was confined in the Allen …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissed Suits by Prisoners Liable for Filing Fees Under §1915(g) by Dismissed Suits by Prisoners Liable for Filing Fees Under §1915(g) The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a state prisoner filing a civil rights complaint that is subsequently dismissed under the "three-strikes provision" of 28 U.S.C. § …
Punitive Damages Can Be Awarded in § 1983 Claim by Punitive Damages can be Awarded in § 1983 Claim The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a jury verdict of the United States District Court of the Western District of Missouri in favor of an assaulted prisoner. The court also …
Article • May 15, 2007
Denial of Physical Therapy States Claim Under 42 U.S.C. §1983 by Denial of Physical Therapy States Claim Under 42 U.S.C. §1983 The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that denial of physical therapy and pain medication to a paraplegic prisoner stated a colorable constitutional claim under 42 U.S.C. §1983. …
Article • May 15, 2007
FBI Can Use Prisoners' Phone Calls for Any Lawful Purpose by Affirming the decision of the U.S. District Court of Maryland, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that prisoners of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) consent to have their telephone calls monitored and taped and that the Federal …
Placing Pre-Trial Detainees in Segregation Requires Due Process by The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing in part the decision of a district court in Indiana, held that a pre-trial detainee cannot be placed in segregation without due process, except for management purposes. James Higgs, a pre-trial detainee in …
Article • May 15, 2007
Under "Compelling Circumstances" Government Must Issue Subpoenas for Free by Under "Compelling Circumstances" Government Must Issue Subpoenas for Free The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, held that the United States may be compelled to pay fees and expenses of witnesses subpoenaed by indigent civil litigants in cases …
Article • May 15, 2007
Second Circuit Cites Factors for Appointing Counsel for Indigent Litigants by The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, vacating and remanding a New York district court decision, held that the district court judge abused her discretion in refusing to appoint counsel for an indigent civil litigant. Allen Hodge was arrested …
Article • May 15, 2007
Eighth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Failure to Protect Claim by The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the District Court for the Western District of Missouri on that court's grant of summary judgment to a prison captain in a prisoner's failure to protect claim. Michael Cleaver, a …
Article • May 15, 2007
Dismissed Medical Claims Reversed by Federal Tenth Circuit by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Kansas Federal District Court's dismissal of a state prisoner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 complaint. Donald Halpin is a Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) prisoner transferred from the Florida Department of Corrections under the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
Parents of Jail Suicide Victim Have Familial Association Right by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the parents of an arrestee, who committed suicide while in the Helena (Montana) city jail, could maintain a claim, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, based upon a Fourteenth Amendment …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York County Could Be Liable for Jail Strip Searches by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that Herkimer County (New York) was not entitled to qualified immunity if it maintained a policy that allowed the routine strip-searching of misdemeanor arrestees without reasonable suspicion that they …
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