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Police Not Liable For Ban on Attorney Calls

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Telephones, Attorney Calls

Police Not Liable For Ban on Attorney Calls by At 778 n. 4: The defendant state police could not be held liable for the plaintiff's inability to make a long distance call to his attorney ...

Ninth Circuit Upholds Prosecutor Denying Detainee Phone Access

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

telephone access based on a letter from the prosecutor to the U.S. Marshal, which requested such action because the plaintiff's superseding indictment named five new defendants who were not yet in custody ...

Legal Mail and Attorney Call Claims Subject to PLRA

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Attorney Client, PLRA, Injunctions (PLRA), Attorney Calls, Legal Mail

Legal Mail and Attorney Call Claims Subject to PLRA by The plaintiff complained that his attorney-client telephone calls and correspondence were improperly intruded upon. At 159: Krilich ...

SAMs Valid, Requiring Defense Attorneys' Affirmation Invalid

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits

SAMs Valid, Requiring Defense Attorneys' Affirmation Invalid by A U.S. District Court held that Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) were valid as to the detention of a pretrial detainee, but defense attorneys need not give affirmation as to their acknowledgment of the SAMs. 28 C.F.R. §501.3(a) (Prevention of acts of violence …

Collect Only Telephone Calls to Attorneys Denies Access to Counsel

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Attorney Client, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

Collect Only Telephone Calls to Attorneys Denies Access to Counsel by The California First District Court of Appeal has held that pre-trial detainee's have a right to a direct line telephone ...

Attorney/Client Privileged Waived When Conversation Knowingly Recorded; Interstate Commerce Proven With De Minimus Effect

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Attorney/Client Privileged Waived When Conversation Knowingly Recorded; Interstate Commerce Proven With De Minimus Effect by Attorney/Client Privileged Waived When Conversation Knowingly Recorded; Interstate Commerce Proven With De Minimus Effect The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held the government proved that robberies of a jewelry store affected interstate commerce and the …

Louisiana Jail Sanctioned with Contempt, Fines and Attorney Fees

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Legality of Rules, Food, Clothing, Showers, Hygiene Supplies, Vermin, Attorney Fee Awards, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Photocopies, Consent Decrees, Attorney Calls, Mail, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits

Louisiana Jail Sanctioned with Contempt, Fines and Attorney Fees by Louisiana Jail Sanctioned With Contempt, Fines and Attorney Fees A federal district court in Louisiana fined the Bienville parish jail, sheriff, police and the state of Louisiana $l2,000 plus $1,000 per day the jail was not in compliance with a …

BOP Liable for Medical Neglect under State Tort Law

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Medical, Skeletal Injury, Malpractice, Attorney Fee Awards, State Law Claims, Federal Tort Claims Act, Equal Access to Justice Act, Attorney Calls

, which amounted to malpractice. While the court also found the BOP had deliberately interfered with plaintiff's attorney calls, the court held the BOP was liable only for the medical claims. Plaintiff ...

Protective Custody Conditions Suit Remanded

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Food, Exercise, Attorney Calls, Religious Freedom, Denial of Religious Services

Protective Custody Conditions Suit Remanded by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a lower court erred when it dismissed as frivolous a lawsuit that Missouri prisoners in Protective Custody (PC) were deprived of religious services, only received 45 minutes of exercise a week, were denied adequate …

Jail Detainee Has Right of Court Access

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Court Access, Legal Materials, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls

Jail Detainee Has Right of Court Access by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a California jail detainee's court access rights were violated when the jail interfered with court ordered local and long distance phone calls, legal materials, subpoena runner and obtaining legal materials and an …

Collect Call Phone System Doesn't Violate Right to Court Access

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Attorney Client, Court Access, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Collect Call Phone System Doesn't Violate Right to Court Access by A federal district court in Tennessee held that no constitutional violation occurred when a Tennessee prison replaced its coin operated phones with a coinless, collect call only phone system. Lawsuit was brought in context of access to counsel and …

NY Ban on Internet Materials Upheld

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Podiatry, Clothing, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Mail Regulations, Internet

NY Ban on Internet Materials Upheld by A serious medical need is "a condition of urgency that may result in degeneration or extreme pain." (559) (No it isn't, necessarily.) The plaintiff alleged an eight-month delay in diagnosis of his "bowel disorder" (mild distal proctitis and internal hemorrhoids) from the time …

Jail Segregation Ban on Collect Calls Upheld

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

Jail Segregation Ban on Collect Calls Upheld by One of the plaintiff's claims was exhausted. At 291-92: He doesn't have "proof-positive," but he does have "some proof that his efforts to file grievances . . . were not facilitated by the Jail as required by the policy." Exhaustion is an …

Sawchuck v. Jenne, FL, Order, Attorney-Client Communications, 2007

Brief • March 30, 2007

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Attorney Client, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Sawchuck v. Jenne, FL, Order, Attorney-Client Communications, 2007 ,~.- Case 0:06-cv-61182- KAM Document 49 " Entered on FLSD Docket 03/30/2007 Page UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No. 06- 61182- Civ- MARRAlJOHNSON JOSEPH SAWCHUCK and RICHARD SPENCER individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated Plaintiffs …

American Bar Association Recommends Expanded Prisoner Telephone Access

Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

American Bar Association Recommends Expanded Prisoner Telephone Access by by John E. Dannenberg The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) made a formal ...

Mere Pendency of Proceedings Deprives Court of Jurisdiction in Jail Collect Call Case; Attorney Fee

Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Public Defenders, Injunctions, Standing, Mootness, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls

alleged that HCJC's policy of allowing prisoners to make only collect telephone calls, in combination with the Hamilton County Public Defender's policy of refusing collect calls operated to deny pretrial ...

Phone Companies Gouge California Jail Prisoners' Families

Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

, explained the higher costs away only by saying that jail telephone systems are more complex." Michel Hennessey, San Francisco County Sheriff, noted that some sheriffs - who find the booty easy money to fill ...

California Class Action Lawsuit Targets Unauthorized Prison Phone Charges

Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004

Filed under: Class Certification, Telephones, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls

California Class Action Lawsuit Targets Unauthorized Prison Phone Charges by A lawsuit currently pending in a California state court claims that certain providers of prison telephone ...

Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues

Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004

Filed under: Attorneys, Attorney Client, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring, Access to Media

Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues by Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues by Matthew T. Clarke A Nebraska state district court granted Nebraska state prisoners' summary judgment on issues involving the monitoring and recording of phone calls to government …

Acrimonious Michigan Prisoners' Rights Suit Settled After 15 Years

Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004

Filed under: Clothing, Judiciary, Prisoner Legal Assistance, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Writing Implements, Photocopies, Administrative Exhaustion, Prisoner Property, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits

Acrimonious Michigan Prisoners' Rights Suit Settled After 15 Years by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A class-action lawsuit launched by Michigan state prisoners in 1988 which ultimately cost taxpayers $7.5 million in litigation costs was settled on November 4, 2003, resulting in prisoners gaining appropriate classification and psychiatric …