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Publication Date: 2019-08-21
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Stark
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Evan O. Williford and Andrew J. Huber, The Williford Firm LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Ryan P. Connell, Deputy Attorney General, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: D67670
An inmate had standing to assert claims against prison officials because his injuries were fairly traceable to the alleged bad acts of those officials.
Publication Date: 2019-07-03
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Andrews
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jermaine Greene, Wilmington, DE, pro se plaintiff
for defendant: Joseph Clement Handlon, Deputy Attorney General, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D68616
Dismissal of inmate's civil rights complaint warranted for failure to prosecute where plaintiff had taken no action in the case for over a year, had failed to advise the court of his transfers, failed to respond to the motion to dismiss, and appeared to lack a meritorious claim.
Publication Date: 2019-06-19
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Andrews
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul A. Fahmy, Smyrna, DE, pro se plaintiff
for defendant: N/A
Case Number: D68599
Plaintiff inmate's §1983 claims dismissed where he was granted a disciplinary hearing on his charges and where plaintiff received medical treatment for his injuries, failing to identify any officials who were responsible for the alleged delay in treatment.
Publication Date: 2019-06-05
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Andrews
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Hayley J. Reese and Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff
for defendant: Ryan P. Connell, Delaware Dep't of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendants
Case Number: D68586
Factual issues precluded summary judgment on an inmate's claims regarding a religious diet and congregational worship, but the inmate failed to exhaust his administrative remedies on his claim involving religious objects.
Publication Date: 2019-06-05
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Connolly
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jermaine Layton Carter, Smyrna, DE, pro se plaintiff
for defendant:
Case Number: D68584
Prison inmate's amended §1983 complaint dismissed as frivolous where it asserted claims against prison administrators in their official capacities without alleging direct personal involvement by those administrators and where it arose from the inmate's dissatisfaction with the prison grievance process.
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Publication Date: 2019-05-01
Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Valihura
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth R. McFarlan, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for the state.
for defendant: Patrick J. Collins, Collins & Associates, Wilmington, DE for Jacquez Robinson.
Case Number: D68547
The trial court correctly concluded that the state engaged in conduct which violated a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel, but the Delaware Supreme Court held that dismissal was not the only appropriate remedy for the misconduct.
Publication Date: 2019-04-10
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Connolly
Attorneys: For plaintiff: DeShawn Drumgo, Frackville, PA, pro se plaintiff.
for defendant: Stuart B. Drowos, Deputy Attorney General, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D68520
Corrections officer entitled to Eleventh Amendment and qualified immunity against claim of alleged sexual assault of inmate during frisk search where the complained-of action did not rise to the level of a constitutional violation and the credible evidence did not support finding the search was conducted in a wrongful manner.
Publication Date: 2019-04-03
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Stark
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel A. Griffith, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants Correct Care Solu-tions and Pamela Magee
for defendant: Stuart B. Drowos, Delaware Dep't of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendant Matthew Fisher. Ophelia Michelle Waters Delaware Dep't of Justice, Wilmington, DE for correctional officer defendants.
Case Number: D68513
Defendants were entitled to summary judgment in an inmate's civil rights action where plaintiff failed to ex-haust his administrative remedies, and where the record revealed no evidence of constitutional violations.
Publication Date: 2019-02-20
Practice Area: Civil Rights | Education Law
Industry: Education
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Noreika
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura Davis Jones, James I. Stang, and James E. O'Neill, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alexander S. Zalkin and Ryan M. Cohen, The Zalkin Law Firm, P.C., San Diego, CA for plaintiff.
for defendant: James D. Taylor, Jr., Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: D68464
Plaintiff's Title IX and equal protection claims were time-barred where her timely allegations merely amounted to continuing ill effects from the original alleged violations and were not continual unlawful affirmative acts by defendants that would support finding plaintiff's claim timely under a continuing violation theory.
Publication Date: 2019-02-13
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Connolly
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Joseph Kassab, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
for defendant: N/A
Case Number: D68459
Prison staff were immune from suit by an inmate, and the complaint failed to allege sufficient facts to consti-tute claims for civil rights violations involving retaliation and strip searching.
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