Support Article

How To Search Guide
Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:

Support Article

How To Search Guide
27 cases, 319 documents
Ordered by
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ross v. Gossett

3:15-cv-00309 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 19, 2015

Case Ongoing

On March 19, 2015, an Illinois prisoner filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against numerous members of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) tactical team “Orange Crush,” the wardens at Illinois River, Menard, Big Muddy River, and Lawrence Correctional Centers, and other IDOC officials. The plaintiff, represented by Loevy & Loevy and the Uptown People's Law Center, sought injunctive relie…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
M.H. v. Monreal

1:12-cv-08523 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2012

Closed Date: Nov. 14, 2019

On October 23, 2012, a teenager detained awaiting a parole revocation hearing filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and Uptown People's Law Center, asked the court for a declaratory judgment that the policies of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board regarding parole revocation hearings were unconstitutional. He also requested that the Court enjoin the defendant from…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hampton v. Baldwin

3:18-cv-00550 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 8, 2018

Closed Date: June 30, 2022

On March 8, 2018 a transgender woman serving a ten-year sentence brought this lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections and a group of its officers in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Though she had lived as a woman since the age of five, the plaintiff was incarcerated in a men’s prison and had previously been transferred from another men’s prison due to harassment and abuse by guards and prisoners. Following a settlement in a related case, the plaintiff c…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Andrews v. Rauner

1:18-cv-01101 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 11, 2018

Case Ongoing

On March 11, 2018, the mother of a deceased prisoner at the Logan Correctional Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) and Wexford Health Sources, a contractor for IDOC. Represented by the Uptown People’s Law Center and the Northside Transformative Justice Center, the plaintiff alleged that officials at the Logan Correctional Center subjected her daughter to cruel and unusual puni…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lippert v. Godinez

1:10-cv-04603 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 23, 2010

Case Ongoing

On July 23, 2010, a prisoner at Stateville Correction Center filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued Wexford Health Services and the Illinois Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, representing himself pro se, asked the court for monetary damages and injunctive relief. The plaintiff claimed that the defendants were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs resulting from Type 1 Diabetes, viola…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rasho v. Walker

1:07-cv-01298 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 2007

Case Ongoing

On November 7, 2007, mentally ill prisoners incarcerated by the Illinois Department of Corrections ("IDOC") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131 et seq.; and the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794, against the state of Illinois. The plaintiffs, represented by the Uptown People's Law Center, Equip for Equality, and private counsel, claimed that their lack of acce…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Holmes v. Godinez

1:11-cv-02961 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 4, 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2023

On May 04, 2011, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against officials at the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by a group of public and private lawyers, the plaintiffs alleged that, while in IDOC custody, they were denied the assistance they needed to effectively communicate and participate in IDOC programs and services, in violation of the Americans with …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Fontano v. Godinez

3:12-cv-03042 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2012

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2016

A formerly incarcerated person filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois on February 9, 2012. The plaintiff brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), claiming violations of the First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and Uptown People's Law Center, the plaintiff sought monetary damages. Judge Sue E. Myercough was assigned to the case. The c…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Shipp v. Gomez

1:22-cv-00888 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the inhumane and unsanitary living conditions in the Illinois Department of Corrections’ Northern Reception and Classification Center (the Center), a facility intended to provide short-term housing for individuals before transferring them to more permanent prison facilities. On February 17, 2022, an incarcerated person filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued the Center’s warden and the Center…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Walters v. Edgar

1:82-cv-01920 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 19, 1982

Closed Date: June 3, 1999

This is a long-running class action brought by people incarcerated in Illinois high-security prisons alleging they were unconstitutionally denied access to the courts in violation of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment. The named plaintiff filed the complaint on April 19, 1982 in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois pro se. The plaintiff later obtained counsel. The case was assigned to Judge James Moran, but was later transferred to Judge Elaine Bucklo. The plaintiff …