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People v. Armstrong

21-003294-FH | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2021

Case Ongoing

This criminal case involved whether evidence of a crime obtained only because of detention based on the smell of marijuana can be admitted as evidence in a criminal trial. On October 8, 2020, law enforcement officers approached a parked car because they smelled marijuana, which had been legalized in Michigan. They spoke with both occupants and instructed the defendant out, then conducted a search and found a gun under the front passenger's seat. He was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Palmigiano v. Garrahy

1:74-cv-00172 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 16, 1974

Closed Date: Feb. 19, 2014

On 01/11/2007, six inmates in the "awaiting trial" section of the Adult Correctional Institutions of Rhode Island (ACI) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs, represented in part by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated because …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hadix v. Johnson

2:80-cv-73581 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 1980

Closed Date: Nov. 15, 2000

NOTE: There are two separate cases, in two separate districts, under the caption Hadix. This summary and documents are for the Eastern District of Michigan case, 2:80-cv-73581-JF, filed in 1980. As explained below, in 1992, the Eastern District judge, John Feikens, split that case in two, and sent part of it (the part relating to medical and mental health care, and eventually fire safety) to the Western District, where it received the docket number 4:92-CV-110.  On September 18, 1980, prisoners…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jensen v. Thornell

2:12-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 22, 2012

Case Ongoing

This case is a direct descendant of Gamez v. Ryan, which was dismissed with prejudice on March 21, 2012. The district court judge determined that the sudden expansion of the case to include thirteen new plaintiffs and class treatment in the third amended complaint was not within the court's contemplation when it permitted the plaintiff to file a third amended complaint. On March 22, 2012, fourteen Arizona prisoners brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McPherson v. Lamont

3:20-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Closed Date: April 23, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a putative class action brought on April 20, 2020, by five detainees at the Connecticut Department of Correction, seeking release from detention or transfer to home confinement due to elevated health risks in light of the virus. The class was certified on June 12. On July 17, the parties entered into a settlement agreement which provided for a variety of specific mitigation measures to improve COVID-19-related sanitation, hygiene, testing, and medical monitoring at eve…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Damus v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-00578 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 15, 2018

Case Ongoing

This class action suit, filed on March 15, 2018, sought to enjoin the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from detaining asylum seekers in order to deter other potential migrants from seeking refuge in the United States. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and private counsel, were asylum seekers who had been detained without individualized determinations that they posed a flight risk or danger to the community. The plaintiffs sued DHS and alleged violations of the Immigration and Na…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duvall v. Glendening (Duvall v. Hogan)

1:94-cv-02541 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 1994

Case Ongoing

This case was brought in 1976 in the federal district court for the District of Maryland under Section 1983 by inmates at the Baltimore City Jail against both state and city officials of the Baltimore, Maryland prison system. The plaintiffs complained of overcrowding and conditions of confinement at the Baltimore City Jail, which resulted in a consent agreement setting capacity limitations, eliminating double celling and providing other services. In April 1981, the case was consolidated with Co…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Jerry M. v. District of Columbia

1519-85 | District of Columbia state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 1985

Case Ongoing

On March 1, 1985, a class of juveniles confined at juvenile detention centers operated by the District of Columbia ("the District") filed a lawsuit against the District under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. They alleged unconstitutional conditions of confinement in violation of the juveniles' Fifth and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiffs specifically challenged the conditions of confinement at Cedar Knoll Youth Center and Oak Hill Youth Center, both in Laure…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Flynn v. Doyle

2:06-cv-00537 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 1, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2016

On May 1, 2006, attorneys for the National Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation and the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation Inc. filed a civil rights class action in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of female inmates incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional Institution (“TCI”) in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The plaintiffs alleged that their conditions of confinement violated their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United St…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Thakker v. Doll

1:20-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

Closed Date: April 18, 2023

On March 24, 2020, twelve civil immigration detainees held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at York County Prison (YCF), Clinton County Correctional Facility (CCCF), and Pike County Correctional Facility (PCCF) -- who because of their age or underlying medical conditions were particularly susceptible to serious illness or death in the event of a COVID-19 infection -- filed this habeas petition and complaint in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.…