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Lewis v. Evans

4:84-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: July 11, 1984

We have not been able to obtain any of the filings or opinions issued in this case. However, another case, Garvey v. Allen, No. CV486-230, 1987 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1148 (S.D. Ga. Jan. 14, 1987) (Judge Berry Edenfield), alleging non-compliance with a court order in Lewis, has revealed some details. In Garvey, the plaintiff, a prisoner at the Coastal Correction Institution, filed a law suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia alleging that he had b…
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Goff v. Harper

4:90-cv-30365 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: July 6, 1990

Closed Date: 2006

On July 6, 1990, an inmate at Iowa State Prison filed a lawsuit against prison officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa alleging Eighth and Eleventh Amendment violations. Plaintiff specifically alleged the defendants' disciplinary procedures and policies violated inmates' constitutional rights.On December 14, 1993, plaintiff filed a motion for preliminary injunction requesting that certain prison officials not be involved in any of …
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Crooks v. Nix

4:85-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: May 6, 1985

Closed Date: 1989

On May 6, 1985, an individual inmate suffering from leukemia filed a pro se Section 1983 complaint against the Warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary, the Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections, and The Iowa City Medical Center in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Plaintiff alleged that defendants demonstrated deliberate indifference to his medical needs when they denied him a bone marrow transplant and failed to give him adequate pain medication. The …
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Hunter v. Auger

4:79-00192 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: April 26, 1979

In 1979, three prison visitors filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against correctional officers at Iowa State Men's Reformatory and Iowa State Penitentiary in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging violations of their Fourth Amendment rights to be free from strip searches during their visits to the institution. On February 26, 1981, the District Court (Judge …
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Kelly v. Brewer

4:73-00177 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 1973

Closed Date: Nov. 19, 1975

In September 1973, an inmate of the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the prison warden. The plaintiff complained about administrative segregation conditions, standards, and infrequent evaluations of segregated prisoners. The plaintiff further alleged an equal protection violation, claiming that inmates convicted of murder had not been classified as a serious safety…
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Clark v. Brewer

4:76-cv-80054 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 1976

Closed Date: June 14, 2000

On Feb. 12, 1976, an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary filed a lawsuit under 42 USC 1983 against prison officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division. The inmate, represented by the Prisoners Assistance Clinic, challenged the constitutional validity of the "close management policy" (the procedural method of determining whether a prisoner should remain in administrative solid lockup) adopted by the prison. The District Court (Judge William Stuart) …
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Patchette v. Nix

4:90-cv-80230 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: April 24, 1990

Closed Date: 1991

On October 11, 1989, prisoners from the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the Iowa State Penitentiary's Warden and the Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The plaintiffs, represented by court-appointed counsel, alleged that prison overcrowding produced conditions that made incarceration cruel and unusual punishment and that new visitation policies and pract…
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Bear v. Kautzky

4:01-cv-40456 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: July 27, 2001

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2006

Four inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit on July 27, 2001 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, challenging a policy that banned prisoners' communications with other prisoners who served as jail-house lawyers. Plaintiffs alleged that this policy violated their First Amendment right to freedom of expression and their Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights to be free from retaliation. Plaintiffs sought …
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Remmers v. Brewer

4:72-cv-00177 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 1972

Closed Date: 2009

On August 3, 1972, two inmates of the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison filed a pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against prison officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their First Amendment right to freely practice their religion as members of the Church of New Song (CONS). They also complained that involving chaplains in the parole process violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. After a trial on February 22-23, 19…
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Goff v. Nix

4:90-cv-50145 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: March 16, 1990

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 1997

In 1993, two inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against prison officials seeking an injunction against the prison's prohibition of legal correspondence between inmates in different prison units. Following a bench trial, the District Court (Judge Donald E. O'Brien) granted an injunction on October 19, 1993, finding that restrictions on legal communications burdened inmat…