Loaded on
March 15, 2010
published in Verdict1
March, 2010, page 29
Eighteen months after surviving a motion for summary judgment, California prisoner William Milton agreed to a settlement of $35,000 in a case involving denial and delay of medical treatment. Though unpublished, the district court’s March 2007 order denying defendants’ motion for summary judgment includes an insightful discussion of why, despite ...
Loaded on
March 15, 2010
published in Verdict1
March, 2010, page 34
On September 13, 2009, the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) reached a settlement with the parents of an Idaho state prisoner who was driven to suicide by squalid conditions at a GEO Group-run private prison in Texas, where he had been transferred. The IDOC agreed to pay the prisoner’s estate ...
The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that results in not only a policy change but monetary payments to class members.
Represented by the Seattle law firm of Budge and Heipt, WDOC prisoner ...
Loaded on
Jan. 15, 2010
published in Verdict1
January, 2010, page 10
In February 2008, the California Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a lawsuit by a prisoner who had been allegedly rendered quadriplegic by medical mistreatment after he was knocked unconscious in a fight.
According to the complaint, Kenneth Holcomb, a DOC prisoner, was attacked by other prisoners, severely injured and rendered ...
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n August 12, 2009, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) agreed to settle a lawsuit by a Muslim former prisoner who alleged that he was tortured and beaten after complaining to investigators about his Quar’an and Kufi being desecrated.
From April 5, 1996, until October 4, 2005, Hakeem Shaheed ...
Loaded on
Jan. 15, 2010
published in Verdict1
January, 2010, page 15
On June 3, 2009, Greene County, Missouri agreed to pay half of a $75,000 settlement in a wrongful death action brought by the family of a prisoner who died while at the Greene County Jail.
In July 2005, Winston Eugene Holt, a federal prisoner being held on charges at the ...
Loaded on
Jan. 15, 2010
published in Verdict1
January, 2010, page 20
A Colorado detainee settled his medical neglect and excessive force suit within four months of filing for $116,731.73 in damages and $83,268.27 in attorney’s fees.
On July 26, 2006, Michael R. Martin was booked into Colorado’s Adams County Detention Facility (ACDF). He was on a high dosage of Xanax for ...
Loaded on
Jan. 15, 2010
published in Verdict1
January, 2010, page 27
A $2.4 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit involving three children being killed in an automobile accident caused by a California jail guard on the way to work.
As Tulare County guard Joseph D. Armstrong was on the way to work at the county’s jail, he ran a ...
Loaded on
Jan. 15, 2010
published in Verdict1
January, 2010, page 39
In May 2008 the County of Oneida agreed to pay $100,000, and CNY Services agreed to pay $125,000, in settlement of a wrongful death claim brought by the parents of a 17-year-old detainee who committed suicide in the Oneida County Jail one month after his detention.
Cail Williamson, a resident ...
Loaded on
Jan. 15, 2010
published in Verdict1
January, 2010, page 40
Los Angeles County has agreed to pay $900,000 to a prisoner who lost his foot after staff at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) in California delayed processing a culture test that later showed the prisoner had a serious infection.
Franklin Silva was arrested on March 7, 2005, by ...