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Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Changes Prisoner Property Policy After Suit Filed Alleging Gender Discrimination Against Men by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Over seven years after California prisoner David Scott Harrison sued the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the prison system removed some, though not all, of the gender-­based personal property …
Brief • December 13, 2023
Wood v. Fl Dept of Education, FL, Complaint, Discrimination, 2023 Case 4:23-cv-00526-MW-MAF Document 1 Filed 12/13/23 Page 1 of 61 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE DIVISION Katie Wood, Jane Doe, and AV Schwandes, Plaintiffs, v. Florida Department of Education; State Board of Education; Monesia …
Fourth Circuit Rebuffs Federal Prisoner’s Attempt to Expand Bivens in North Carolina by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a federal prisoner’s civil rights suit, finding his Fifth Amendment claim did not fit within …
Ninth Circuit Holds Intermediate Scrutiny Applies in Challenges to Facially Discriminatory Prison Regulations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 21, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the proper standard of review to be applied to facially discriminatory prison regulations challenged as violating …
Stump v. County of Otero, NM, Settlement, Employment Discrimination, 2018 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, FULL RELEASE OF CIVIL CLAIMS, AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT 1. FOR THE SOLE CONSIDERATION of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), inclusive of any liens against this settlement, including but not limited to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, or other insurance liens …
BOP Fails and Prevails in Prison Guard Discrimination Complaint by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Robert T. Aranda, an "inmate systems officer" (prison guard), was a very litigious Bureau of Prisons employee. Between 1996 and 1998, while working at multiple BOP facilities in several capacities, Aranda filed at least six …
Study Finds Extreme Lack of Gender, Racial/Ethnic Diversity in State Courts by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A new report, "Gavel Gap: Who Sits in Judgment on State Courts?,” by Professors Tracey E. George and Albert H. Yoon, of Vanderbilt Law School and Toronto Law School, respectively, found that state …
Brief • February 21, 2017
Stump v. County of Otero, NM, Complaint, Employment Discrimination, 2017 FILED 12TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OTERO COUNTY NM 2/21/2017 12:07:23 PM KATINA WATSON CLERK OF COURT Claudia Herrera STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF OTERO TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT DANIEL K. STUMP Plaintiff, Cause No. D-1215-CV-2017-00146 vs. BOARD OF COUNTY …
BOP Settles Reverse Discrimination Suit for $2,250 by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled a discrimination claim brought by Thomas R. Sniezek, a 48-year-old white male, in April 2003. Sniezek, a former associate warden at United States Penitentiary Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, brought an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint against …
BOP Settles Religious and Gender Discrimination Claim for $1,000 by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claim of religious and gender discrimination for $1,000.00 in March 2003. The complaint, brought by senior prison guard Wallace L. Austin, alleged discrimination by the staff at …
Discrimination Complaint by White Male Prison Guard Settled by Christopher Zoukis An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint filed by Kevin J. Erickson, a white male prison guard at Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg, Virginia, was settled in March 2002. Erickson's EEOC complaint, filed in April 2001, alleged that Wanda Hunt, …
BOP Pays $20,000 to Settle Sex Discrimination Complaint by The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $20,000 and agreed to review policies to settle a sexual discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. On February 3 and 4, 1999, while working as a guard at FCC Butner Medium in North …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
California Federal Court Rules Early Release Program Cannot be Restricted to Women by Derek Gilna According to a September 8, 2015 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Morrison C. England, Jr., the State of California implemented the Alternative Custody Program (ACP) in 2012 with the goal of reversing the worrisome …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Impact of Race, Gender & Geography on Missouri Executions, Baumgartner, 2015 The Impact of Race, Gender, and Geography on Missouri Executions Frank R. Baumgartner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Frankb@unc.edu July 16, 2015 Missouri’s use of the death penalty in the modern era has been marked by substantial …
Vermont’s Policy of Sending Prisoners Out-of-State Found Unconstitutional by David Reutter A Vermont Superior Court held the policy of the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) to send hundreds of male prisoners to out-of-state facilities, regardless of whether they have close bonds with their young children, while keeping all women prisoners …
Berman and Stapp v. Brown et al, CA, Mot for PI, male gender discrimination CDCR program, 2015 Case5:15-cv-03282-EJD Document12 Filed07/16/15 Page1 of 51 1 GAY CROSTHWAIT GRUNFELD – 121944 VAN SWEARINGEN – 259809 2 ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & GRUNFELD LLP 315 Montgomery Street, Tenth Floor 3 San Francisco, California 94104-1823 …
Berman and Stapp v. Brown et al, CA, Complaint for Injunctive Relief, male gender discrimination CDCR program, 2015 Case5:15-cv-03282-HRL Document1 Filed07/14/15 Page1 of 10 1 GAY CROSTHWAIT GRUNFELD – 121944 VAN SWEARINGEN – 259809 2 ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & GRUNFELD LLP 315 Montgomery Street, Tenth Floor 3 San Francisco, California …
Ninth Circuit: No Summary Judgment on Male Guard Supervision of Female Prisoners Ban by Mark Wilson Ninth Circuit: No Summary Judgment on Male Guard Supervision of Female Prisoners Ban by Mark Wilson The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on July 2, 2014 that a claim that a jail policy …
ICE Officials Target of Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination Lawsuits by ICE Officials Target of Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination Lawsuits Accusations of sexual harassment and anti-male bias at the highest levels of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bureau resulted in a shakeup at the agency and two federal lawsuits, …
Article • May 15, 2013
Denying Male Domestic Violence Victims Aid is Unconstitutional by The California Court of Appeals held that the gender-based denial of domestic violence services to male victims deprives those victims of equal protection of the law. Four men and the daughter of one, sought to escape relationships which subjected them to …
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