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New York Employees Families Settle Attica Riot Claims for $12 Million

Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Failure to Protect (General), Settlements, State Law Claims, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Guards/Staff, Assaults on Staff

New York Employees Families Settle Attica Riot Claims for $12 Million by The State of New York has reached a $12 million settlement with the Forgotten Victims of Attica, a group of surviving ...

$12,003.74 in Fees/Costs Awarded in Excessive Force Use; PLRA Fee Cap Inapplicable to Stipulated Set

Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005

Filed under: PLRA, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Injunctions (PLRA), Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements, Costs

in settlement of the appeal, they dismissed the finding of liability that they had won for their client. The result is that their initial achievement is diminished. On a $4 million complaint for relief ...

New York Jail Settles Strip-Search Suit For $2.7 Million

Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005

Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Settlements

situated, against the sheriff and other jail and county officials. Before the case went to trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, the parties reached a settlement ...

$3.54 Million Paid For Falsely Imprisoning Unconvicted Mentally-Incapacitated California Man For Two Years In New York

Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002

Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Escapes, Civil Procedure, Damages, Complaints, Venue, Wrongful Imprisonment, Americans with Disabilities Act, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Family Law

Sanders, DOB 6/25/66, when only one would suffice. Initially, Kerry didn't fare much better when seeking damages in a civil rights complaint filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in federal district court (C.D ...

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 ...

Welfare Retaliation Suit Reinstated

Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001

Filed under: Work Release, Retaliation, Retaliation for Litigating, Notice of Rules, Damages, Settlements, Seizure of Prisoner Funds

refused to allow Friedl to amend his original complaint. In December 1993, Friedl was granted work release from the Queensboro Correctional Facility, which is operated by the New York State Department ...

Attica Compensation Served Up 29-Years-Cold

Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Attorneys, Attorney Fee Awards, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Damages, Settlements

Attica Compensation Served Up 29-Years-Cold by Two weeks short of 29 years after the Attica massacre, a federal judge divided an $8 million settlement to compensate more than 500 Attica ...

$115,000 Settlement Where Guards Fed NY Prisoner Ground Glass

Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Gastrointestinal, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Damages, Settlements

$115,000 Settlement Where Guards Fed NY Prisoner Ground Glass by In September 1999, New York prison officials settled a lawsuit by prisoner Teno Gee for $115,000 in damages. Gee ...

$820,000 Awarded to Informant and Wife for Assault

Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Damages, Complaints, New Trial Motions, Municipal Liability, Informants (Failure to Protect), Marriage

$820,000 Awarded to Informant and Wife for Assault by A federal district court in New York issued pre- and post-verdict opinions in a negligence action brought by a prisoner and his wife ...

Attica Suit Settled for $12 Million

Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Attorney Fee Awards, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Damages, Settlements

Attica Suit Settled for $12 Million by On February 15, 2000, a federal judge approved a settlement in which New York State is to pay $8 million to the prisoners who were beaten and tortured ...

Rikers Island Brutality Suit Settled

Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Damages, Settlements, Supervisory Liability

settles the class action, Sheppard vs. Phoenix, USDC, case no. 91-civ-4148 (RPP) which was brought by attorneys from the Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project in 1993. The settlement was approved ...

New York Prisoner Settles Excessive Force Case for $25,000

Article • February 15, 1998 • from PLN February, 1998

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Damages, Settlements

New York Prisoner Settles Excessive Force Case for $25,000 by Michael Slater, a New York State prisoner, will receive $18,000 in settlement of an excessive force civil rights claim against ...