by Lonnie Burton
John Jones Bey sued the State of Indiana and county officials to enjoin them from taxing property he owns in Marion County, Indiana. He also sought a refund of past taxes he paid and asked to be compensated for alleged wrongs committed against him by the State. ...
by Lonnie Burton
On March 23, 2015, Kennebec, Maine, Superior Court Justice M. Michaels Murphy found in favor of a state prisoner who claimed prison officials violated his due process rights for placing him in solitary confinement for almost two years without justification. She then set a hearing to determine ...
by Lonnie Burton
Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc., a red-light camera company located in Australia, agreed on February 3, 2017, to pay the city of Chicago $20 million to settle a "massive bribery scheme" upon which its contract with the city was built. Redflex, which admitted to its fraudulent activity, was ...
by Lonnie Burton
On February 7, 2017, a three-judge panel sitting in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed a ruling of the D.C. District Court which found Department of Defense (DOD) officials were not compelled by the Freedom of Information Act MIA) to turn over to ...
by Lonnie Burton
On February 6, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a decision of a Kansas federal district court judge dismissing a lawsuit filed by a former juvenile detention lieutenant who was fired after a random drug screening tested positive for cocaine. The court ...
by Lonnie Burton
In a sternly-worded 24-page order dated January 3, 2017, U.S. District Judge Joan B. Gottschall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, found that Chicago city lawyers willfully and deliberately withheld relevant documents in a lawsuit involving a fatal police shooting. The sanctions ...
by Lonnie Burton
On December 29, 2016, a New York appellate court ruled that prison officials did not violate a prisoner's rights by medically force feeding him. The court found that the prison's responsibilities for "safety and discipline" and to prevent imminent death or serious injury overrode the prisoner's right ...
by Lonnie Burton
On December 27, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Minnesota denied an appeal filed by a woman who pled guilty to third degree murder, but who claimed the state reneged on the terms of the plea agreement. The ruling bound the parties to the guilty plea, but ...
by Lonnie Burton
On December 14, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed a lower court ruling and reinstated a lawsuit brought by a former Broward County, Florida, deputy sheriff who sued the sheriff for refusing to rehire him. The deputy sheriff said the decision ...
by Lonnie Burton
In a Memorandum and Order dated November 7, 2016, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Williams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, granted in part and denied in part summary judgment to a prison medical provider for alleged medical indifference for failing to ...
