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$10 Million Settlement in Boston Strip Search Suit
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Damages, Settlements
$10 Million Settlement in Boston Strip Search Suit by On July 8, 2002, both Suffolk County and the City of Boston entered into a settlement agreement to pay $10 million for violating ...
Texas' Historic Ruiz Lawsuit Settled
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements
that they agreed to the settlement, lawyers for the plaintiff class of Texas state prisoners were prepared to file another round of litigation to address the remaining prison conditions problems involving TDCJ's ...
PLRA Does Not Apply to Juvenile Facilities; $379,000 Attorney Fees and Costs Awarded
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Attorney Fee Awards, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Settlements, Costs, Mail Regulations, Ad-Seg Hearings, Suicides
attorney fees provision does not apply to juvenile facilities, and awarded $379,000 in attorney fees and costs. The court had before it the plaintiff's motion for attorney fees and costs after a Settlement ...
Washington v. San Diego, CA, Complaint, $400k Settlement, 2006
Brief • November 15, 2002
Filed under: Settlements
Washington v. San Diego, CA, Complaint, $400k Settlement, 2006 Case 3:02-cv-00143-LAB-JMA Document 21 Filed 11/15/2002 Page 1 of 24 Case 3:02-cv-00143-LAB-JMA Document 21 Filed 11/15/2002 Page ...
Motion Accepted as Appeal Notice; Damage Award Set Off Against Costs
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Damages, Settlements, Costs, Appeals, Religious Freedom, Religious Diet, Denial of Religious Services
if it states the intent to appeal, and that a jury's damage award could be set off against a plaintiff's liability for costs awarded to defendants when the plaintiff refused a pre-trial settlement greater than ...
Sanction for Lawyers' Exposing Secret Wackenhut Sexual Abuse Settlement Upheld
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Attorney Fee Awards, Attorney Misconduct, Civil Procedure, Settlements, Sanctions
Sanction for Lawyers' Exposing Secret Wackenhut Sexual Abuse Settlement Upheld by by Matthew T. Clarke The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the district court's sanctions ...
Montana Supreme Court Upholds Refusal to Seal Settlement Agreement
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Filed under: Sexual Assault by Parolees, Victims, Settlements, Disclosure of Records, Parole Liability, Wrongful Death, Murder by Parolees
Montana Supreme Court Upholds Refusal to Seal Settlement Agreement by The Montana Supreme Court held that prevailing party did not establish that privacy rights of parties outweighed ...
Wisconsin Ban on Sexually Explicit Materials Unconstitutional
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Civil Procedure, Summary Judgment, Settlements, Class Notice, Sexually Explicit Materials, Tapes/Music (Mail)
later approved a class action settlement whereby a new, more relaxed regulation is to be implemented. In 1994, the WDOC appointed a committee to reevaluate the mail regulations governing materials ...
$400,000 Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Failure to Protect Suit
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, Settlements
$400,000 Settlement in Oklahoma Jail Failure to Protect Suit by On April 19, 2001, the insurer for the Garfield county jail in Oklahoma agreed to pay $400,000 to a former jail prisoner who ...
Illegal Strip Searches Cost Chicago Jail $6.8 Million
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Settlements, Municipal Liability
suit brought by female prisoners who alleged that the strip-searches they were subjected to at the Cook County jail were unconstitutional. The Board approved a $6.8 million settlement which could ...
$50,000 Settlement in D.C. Retaliation Suit
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Filed under: Retaliation, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Settlements
$50,000 Settlement in D.C. Retaliation Suit by In the January 2001, issue of PLN we reported Garcia v. District of Columbia, 56 F. Supp.2d 1 (D DC 1998) in which the district court denied ...
Wisconsin Jail Settles Escape Lawsuit with Escapee
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Escapes, Settlements
Wisconsin Jail Settles Escape Lawsuit with Escapee by In September, 2001, Wausau Insurance, the insurer for the city of Shawano, Wisconsin, agreed to pay Nicholas Bishop, 22, $5,000 to settle a lawsuit Bishop had filed against the city in federal court in Madison. The lawsuit claimed that two city policemen …
Medical Monitoring Suit Settled for $675,000
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Filed under: Medical Experiments/Exploitation, Systemic Medical Neglect, Civil Procedure, Settlements, State Law Claims
, agreed to enter into mediation. Since OHSU and Koheler were not found liable, they were not parties to the mediation or resulting settlement and plaintiffs did not oppose a motion to dismiss them from ...
Oregon Radiation Suit Settled for $1.5 Million
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
Filed under: Medical, Medical Experiments/Exploitation, Settlements
in mediation, which ultimately resulted in the proposed settlement. The proposed class consisted of all 67 prisoners who were irradiated, their spouses, children, and the estates of deceased subjects ...
Not Part of my Sentence: The Rape of Washington Prisoners
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Sexual Harassment, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Medical Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Criminal Prosecution, Boot Camps, Settlements
sums of taxpayer dollars by way of settlements to some prisoners who alleged sexual abuse in various prisons before and after the law was passed. In total, according to information obtained from ...
The Cost of Running Washington's Rape Camps
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Sexual Harassment, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Damages, Settlements
by staff that are taking place, there is relatively little litigation ensuing as a result. A PLN investigation of settlements and verdicts paid out by the Washingon Department of Corrections (DOC) between ...
Montana Court Awards PLRA-Capped Attorney Fees Under Catalyst Theory
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Attorney Fee Awards, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Settlements, Costs, Consent Decrees
Settlement Agreement. Plaintiffs then sought attorneys fees associated with the prosecution of the contempt actions. Defendants objected that, as part of the settlement agreement, there was not finding ...
Washington DOC Hit with almost $50 Million in Verdicts and Settlements in Parole Victim Suits
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Filed under: Sexual Assault by Parolees, Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Victims, Damages, Settlements, Parole, Municipal Liability, Parole Liability, Wrongful Death, Murder by Parolees, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)
Washington DOC Hit with almost $50 Million in Verdicts and Settlements in Parole Victim Suits by Paul Wright In a four-month period between September, 2000 and January, 2001, the Washington ...
New York Strip Search Suit Settled for $50 Million
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Damages, Settlements
the amount of attorney fees in the case. PLN has previously reported large jury verdicts and settlements involving wrongly strip searched prison and jail visitors and arrestees. The law is clearly ...
Washington DOC Settles Public Disclosure Suits
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Damages, Settlements, Costs, Disclosure of Records
Washington DOC Settles Public Disclosure Suits by Roger Smith Plaintiffs Roger Smith, Donald Miniken, and Karl Twilleager, prisoners at the McNeil Island Correction Center (MICC) near Steilacoom, Washington, settled their consolidated Public Disclosure Act claims against defendants Washington Department of Corrections, MICC, and MICC Public Disclosure Officer, Rosemarie Routson on …
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