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26 May 2017, 6:58 am
THE POLICE AND FABRICATION OF EVIDENCE The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the police from fabricating evidence; that the courts still have to remind law enforcement of this basic premise speaks volumes about how intrinsic corruption is in policing throughout the country. [read post]
25 May 2012, 9:00 am
Indeed, the Court has showed a united front against prisoners' rights in these cases despite strong textualist arguments for a narrower construction.Ignorance of both the requirements of the grievance system and of the requirement to use it before going to court, the known fact that grievance systems are totally useless and farcical, and fear of retaliation for complaints directed at guards who may already have assaulted them, predictably result in frequent non-use of… [read post]
28 May 2020, 11:05 am
While the largest amount of these complaints deal with prison conditions and civil rights , the next highest areas of litigation involve insurance disputes, consumer disputes, labor and employment issues and contract disputes. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 1:51 pm
Dupree argued that Younger had not first sought out all possible internal prison remedies for the incident, a prerequisite to suits brought by inmates put in place by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995. [read post]
16 Aug 2018, 8:50 am
Litigation framed the issue in terms of prisoners' health and well being, but the more pressing state interest may be the inability to hire people to work in harsh, unpleasant conditions:“If they would air condition every unit across the state they would keep more people,” said one officer, who asked not to be named because he wasn’t authorized to speak on the record. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 8:03 pm
Lackey of the United States Senate - Committee on the Judiciary and Counsel to U.S. [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 4:22 am
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 6:01 pm
One of the statutory equivalents in the United States, the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act, forbids sentencing judges from taking into account the existence of civil litigation in crafting an order of restitution. [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 5:02 pm
The United States District Court for the District of Kansas today issued a scheduling order governing Ronald Gray's habeas litigation. [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 6:22 am
I've litigated claims about prisoners, taking one case all the way to the United States Supreme Court. [read post]
12 Feb 2017, 7:00 am
LEXIS 16310 (ND IL, Jan. 31, 2017), an Illinois federal district court dismissed a complaint by a Muslim inmate who the court described as "an experienced pro se litigator. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 1:10 pm
Those red herrings deflect the conversation from problems at TDCJ prisons and state jails where state government actually runs the show.The $64 question is whether failure to follow PREA opens the state up to new litigation. [read post]
23 Dec 2013, 1:44 pm
IANAL, but it's possible Sebesta could still face disciplinary action from the state bar if the complaint were re-filed.Louisiana prison heat litigation could presage Texas rulingThe Texas Civil Rights Project, which is litigating over excessive heat in Texas prisons on behalf of inmates and correctional officers, has won similar federal litigation in Louisiana, where a judge ruled prisons must keep the "heat index" below 88 degrees Fahrenheit on… [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 7:31 am
Senate and the United Nations to more carefully scrutinize the use of solitary confinement. [read post]
24 May 2018, 8:56 am
Upon completion of his clerkship, Magistrate Judge Morgan moved to Puerto Rico to work for the private law firm of Totti, Rodríguez Diaz & Fuentes, where he concentrated his efforts on representing the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the complex prisoner civil rights litigation case known as Morales Feliciano. [read post]
25 May 2020, 9:01 pm
Action is needed to protect those still imprisoned, and cannot wait for litigation or the usual, slow process of bureaucratic change in the prison system.Instead, state governors, and the Attorney General of the United States, need to appoint special masters and charge them with devising and implementing a COVID-19 plan for each prison or jail in their jurisdiction. [read post]
4 Aug 2023, 2:00 am
FACE SUBSTANTIAL PRISON TIME FOR ATTACK ON NONVIOLENT, RESTRAINED INMATEAccording to a press release issued by the United States Department of Justice, two former correctional officers at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex pleaded guilty in early July to their respective roles in the assault of an inmate who was “lying face-down, wearing handcuffs and leg shackles, and isolated in a prison shower cell. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 7:32 pm
The Prisoner Reform Litigation Act, designed to curb frivolous inmate suits, generated two of the cases on the Court’s 2015 docket—one on the act’s installment payment feature (Bruce v. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 2:30 am
But his stint in the Youthful Offender Program at the Clemens Unit in Brazoria wasn't supposed to be a death sentence.Even so, that's what it turned out to be.The state of Texas recently settled a civil lawsuit in response to claims by Billops' family that Charles failed to receive proper medical treatment before he died--from an undiagnosed brain abscess due to a sinus infection--in prison custody. [read post]
19 Sep 2013, 9:53 am
That’s prisoner litigation − mostly convicts with nothing better to do with their time than try to sue their jailers. [read post]
