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JAIL CONDITIONS
Farris v. Franklin County

4:14-cv-05083 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2014

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2019

On August 2, 2014, detainees at the Franklin County Jail filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Franklin County. The plaintiffs, represented by Columbia Legal Services, claimed that jail officials’ excessive use of force and the jail’s squalid living conditions violated the First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. They asked the Court to preliminarily and permanently enjoin the County from permitting such abuses.Specific…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Wilson v. Seattle Housing Authority

2:09-cv-00226 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2009

A Seattle resident who had been terminated from the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program brought this class action suit on 02/20/2009, alleging that the administration of the Program in Seattle discriminated against residents with disabilities. The named defendants were the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) and the Executive Director of SHA in his official capacity. Colombia Legal Services represented the plaintiff, and the case was assigned to Judge Marsha J. Pechman of the U.S. District Cou…
PRISON CONDITIONS
B.E. v. Teeter

2:16-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2016

Closed Date: April 10, 2020

On February 16, 2016, Washington Medicaid enrollees filed this putative class action against the Washington State Health Care Authority (WHCA) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs alleged that WHCA’s Hepatitis C (HCV) treatment policy violated Title XIX of the Social Security Act (also known as the “Medicaid Act”) by excluding qualified Medicaid recipients from medically necessary treatment, discriminating among similarly situa…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Colvin v. Inslee

983178 | Washington state supreme court

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: Columbia Legal Services filed this suit on March 24, 2020 on behalf of individuals in state custody against Governor of the State of Washington and the Secretary of the Washington State Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs sought a Writ of Mandamus requiring the defendants to take actions necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to vulnerable populations in custody of Washington State DOC.On March 24, 2020, Columbia Legal Services filed a petition for a Writ of Mandamu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Augustine v. Washington Department of Corrections

19-2-05337-34 | Washington state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2019

Case Ongoing

On October 29, 2019, former inmates of Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CCBC) filed this lawsuit in Washington State Superior Court for Thurston County. The plaintiffs sued the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC), and top WDOC officials, including the WDOC’s secretary, WDOC’s assistant secretary of the Prisons division, the Superintendent of CCBC, and the Superintendent of Washington State Penitentiary. They claimed that their Washington State Constitutional rights had been violated. The…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Haldane v. Hammond

2:15-cv-01810 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2015

Closed Date: 2019

On November 17, 2015, four prisoners in Washington state brought a class action lawsuit against the state's Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Secretary of the DOC under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for allegedly arbitrarily withholding necessary medical care from patients with serious and painful medical conditions. The prisoners, who went untreated or under-treated for serious ailments, including kidney failure, kidney stones, hernia, and chronic and substantial pain, al…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Perez-Farias v. Global Horizons, Inc.

2:05-cv-03061 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: July 12, 2005

Closed Date: 2014

On July 12, 2005, three U.S. orchard workers from Yakima Valley who had been denied or terminated from agricultural employment, brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Represented by Columbia Legal Services and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued Global Horizons, Green Acre Farms, Platte River Insurance Company, and Valley Fruit Orchards, under the Migrants and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (29 U.S.C. § 1801), the Farm…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Best v. Grant County

04-00189 | Washington state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2004

Closed Date: 2013

On December 21, 2004, three indigent criminal defendants with felony cases pending in the Grant County, Washington Superior Court, along with an individual taxpaying resident of Grant County, filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the Superior Court of Kittitas County, challenging the constitutionality of the public defense system in Grant County. Plaintiffs claimed that Grant County: (1) failed to establish a public defense system that provided effective assistance of co…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez-Martinez v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:14-cv-05273 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: April 2, 2014

Closed Date: May 13, 2014

On April 2, 2014, three immigrant detainees incarcerated in the Northwest Detention Center (NDC) filed a lawsuit in the District Court in the Western District of Washington under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the United States Department of Homeland Security. The three detainees, represented by the ACLU, asked the court for injunctive relief in the form of a temporary restraining order prohibiting the placement of prisoners in solitary …