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Florida KKK Guards Convicted in Plot to Kill Former Prisoner by Three former Florida prison guards, who were members of a Ku Klux Klan chapter, were convicted of conspiring to kill a former prisoner. The plot was reportedly hatched in retaliation for a scuffle that occurred at the Reception and …
Brief • August 3, 2017
Hood v. Keefe Commissary, MO, Complaint - Commissary Kickback Conspiracy, 2017 Case: 25CI1:17-cv-00081-WLK Document #: 1 Filed: 02/08/2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL DIST OF HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI JIM HOOD, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, ex rei. THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Plaintiff, Page 1 of …
Ross v. Gossett, IL, Complaint, Operation Orange Crush - Guard Misconduct, 2015 Case 3:15-cv-00309-SMY-PMF Document 1 Filed 03/19/15 Page 1 of 31 Page ID #1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EAST ST. LOUIS DIVISION DEMETRIUS ROSS, on behalf of himself and all others …
Brief • January 5, 2015
Muth v. Woodring, PA, Amended Complaint, Arson Allegation, 2015 Case 1:14-cv-01798-YK Document 23 Filed 01/05/15 Page 1 of 42 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA RONALD E. MUTH, Plaintiff, : Civil Action No.: 1:14-cv-1798 : (Filed: 9/16/2014) : : District Judge: Yvette Kane : …
Rodrick v. Ellis, AZ, Complaint and Application for Injunctive Relief, Defamation-Trade Libel, 2013
Tenth Circuit Upholds BOP Guard’s Abuse Convictions by Tenth Circuit Upholds BOP Guard's Abuse Convictions The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions and sentences of three former prison guards for beating prisoners at the United States Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, (USP-Florence). As we've previously reported, in 1997, the …
Adequate Facts Must be Stated in 1983 Legal Mail Claim by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a District Court's order dismissing a Missouri prisoner's 42.U.S.C §1983 action alleging retaliation and requiring him to open legal mail in front of prison officials, and the grant of summary judgment on …
Norris-LaGuardia Act Trumps State Common Law by The United States Supreme Court held that only when the level of proof in §6 of the Norris-LaGuardia Act is reached can damages for interference be awarded. Paul Gibs filed a federal action against a labor union, The United Mine Workers of America …
Attack on White Supremacist Prisoner States Claim by The plaintiff, in a segregation unit, was beaten during his one hour out of cell by another prisoner, and alleged that it must have resulted from an officer's actions, since the cells were supposed to be locked with only one prisoner out …
Article • May 15, 2007
Summary Judgment Dismissal Not Proper For Factual Disputes: Conspiracy Not Arbitrational Subject by Summary Judgment Dismissal Not Proper For Factual Disputes: Conspiracy Not Arbitrational Subject Former employee Lawrence Lederman and Intervenor Philip Shapiro brought actions against Lederman's former employer and Leeds, Morelli and Brown, P.C. (LMB), the law firm representing …
Article • May 15, 2007
CA Prisoner Properly Convicted of Conspiracy to Furnish Controlled Substance to a Prisoner by Deandre Lee was convicted of conspiracy to furnish a controlled substance to a prisoner under Cal. Pen. Code 4573.9 after his wife was caught trying to deliver drugs and tobacco to him in a California prison. …
Informal Grievance Procedure Must Be Exhausted Before Filing Suit by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a district court's denial of summary judgment for prison officials after ruling that prisoners were required to exhaust their administrative remedies before bringing a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action even …
Overt Act Unnecessary to Allege Conspiracy Claim in 7th Circuit by The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that it is not necessary to allege an overt act to state a conspiracy claim. The court also held that dismissal of a prisoner's retaliation claim for failure …
Colombian Rebels Attack Prisons, 140 Prisoners Flee by Prison escapes are common in Colombia. Prisoners often buy the help of guards and administrators and are often able to outgun their jailers. In the case that follows they had concerted help from the outside. It is not the first time that …
California Racial Segregation Case Reversed; Phone Claim Dismissed by Holding that the action was not time-barred and otherwise stated an actionable claim, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s pro se action which claimed that California state prisons practiced racial …
Pretrial Cold Cell Violates Fourteenth Amendment by Ronald Young A federal district court in Illinois held that a pretrial detainee's alleged exposure to low temperature in a detention cell, while naked and with no alternative means of protecting himself from the cold, supported a claim of inadequate shelter against county …
Litigation and Service Protected by First Amendment by Eric Schroeder is a Hawaii State prisoner. While working in the prison law library he assisted other prisoners with their legal problems. Another prisoner asked Schroeder to serve Tranquillino Mabellos, a staff education specialist at the prison, with a summons and complaint …