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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe 1 v. State of Tennessee

3:24-cv-00777 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 26, 2024

Case Ongoing

In this case, Tennessee children with disabilities allege that the State of Tennessee subjected children with disabilities to cruel and abhorrent treatment in Tennessee’s self-described “hardware security” juvenile detention facilities. The primary plaintiffs in this case are three Tennessee children with disabilities (specifically mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and behavior disorders) who have lived in Tennessee's juvenile justice facilities. The other plaintiff is Disability Right…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a very longstanding class action addressing appropriate treatment of noncitizen children in federal immigration custody. On March 26, 2020, plaintiffs filed an emergency motion seeking prompt release due to COVID-19 risks. On March 27, 2020, the court issued an order to the federal agencies detaining immigrant children to “make continuous efforts” to release the children from custody because of the risk posed to them by COVID-19 and to provide an accounting of their ef…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
S.H. v. Stickrath

2:04-cv-01206 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 24, 2004

Closed Date: Dec. 9, 2015

On December 24, 2004, private civil rights attorneys and attorneys for the Youth Law Center, Inc. the Children's Law Center, Inc, and the Ohio Justice & Policy Center filed a § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, challenging the treatment of juveniles in the custody or under the supervision of the Ohio Department of Youth Services (ODYS). The ODYS operated juvenile correctional institutions in Ohio which included Circleville Youth Center, Cuya…
CHILD WELFARE
M.B. v. Tidball

2:17-cv-04102 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 12, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 12, 2017, M.B., five minors in the Missouri foster care system (through their "Next Friends") filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Missouri. The Plaintiffs sued the Interim Director of the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) and the Director of the Children’s Division (CD) of DSS, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for alleged substantive due process rights violations, procedural due process rights violations, and a violation of the Federal Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare A…
CHILD WELFARE
Katie A. v. Bonta

2:02-cv-05662 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 18, 2002

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed in the Central District of California on July 18, 2002, by the class of children and young adults who (a) are in the custody of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; (b) have a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric impairment; and (c) need individualized mental health services. The suit is against County and State agencies for neglecting their responsibilities to provide mental health care services to foster children in California. Plaintiffs so…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Baumgartner v. City of Long Beach

C54-7482 | California state trial court

Filed Date: May 14, 1985

On May 14, 1985, a resident of the City of Long Beach and the County of Los Angeles, filed suit under California State Law alleging violations of the 8th and 14th Amendments, in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles. The suit was filed against the City of Long Beach, the Mayor, Chief of Police, several City Councilors, and the County of Los Angeles as well as its Board of Supervisors, Director of Public Social Services, and Director of Children's Services. …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Anthony C. v. Pima County

4:82-cv-00501 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 1982

On August 10, 1982, detainees in the Pima County Juvenile Detention Center in Tucson filed this class action lawsuit, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against Pima County. The plaintiffs sued Pima County, the Juvenile Division of the Superior Court of Pima County, the Pima County Court Center, Pima County Detentional Center, and Pima County Board of Supervisors under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 28 U.S.C. § § 2201 and 2202, 20 U…
CHILD WELFARE
Mark A. v. Wilson

2:98-cv-00041 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 1998

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 1999

This action involving California's Adoption Assistance Program was filed against the State of California on January 8, 1998, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs, children who are or will be in foster care, were represented by Youth Law Center; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief pursuant to the Due Process Clause and the federal Adoption Assistance Program, claiming that the defendant's policies and actions violated their rights.The compla…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Porter v. Speirs

06AS03654 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2006

On December 19, 2006, a taxpayer filed an amended complaint in the Sacramento County, California, Superior Court naming, as defendants, the county's chief probation officer and the county's superintendent of schools. Plaintiff sought declaratory relief and to enjoin expenditure of public funds for alleged illegal conduct at the county's two juvenile halls. (We do not have information on when the original complaint was filed nor the allegations made.) Plaintiff had private counsel, including …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Desrosiers v. Androscoggin Co.

2:85-cv-00091 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: April 5, 1985

Closed Date: 1986

On April 5, 1985, a juvenile detained at the Androscoggin County jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine against Androscoggin County, the sheriff, the county commissioners, and two district court judges. The plaintiffs, who were represented in part by the Youth Law Center, asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the conditions, policies and practices at the Androscoggin County jail violated the guarantee of due p…