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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Coleman v. Stanziani

2:81-02215 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 29, 1981

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 1996

In approximately 1981, juveniles who had been detained in Pennsylvania juvenile facilities prior to a disposition hearing filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Juvenile Court judges, a juvenile probation officer, the Juvenile Court, and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief challenging the constitutionality of the "preventive detention" provisions of the P…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
D.B. v. Casey

2:91-cv-06463 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 1991

Closed Date: 1993

On October 16, 1991, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of all boys confined, presently or in the future, in the Youth Development Center in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the Juvenile Law Center, sought declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that their constitutional rights were violated by condit…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Santiago v. Philadelphia

2:74-02589 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1974

In October of 1974, juvenile inmates at the Philadelphia Youth Study Center (YSC) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), 2000d against the City of Philadelphia and local Family Court judges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented by Community Legal Services, Inc. of Philadelphia, and private attorneys, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, and punitive damages for those members of the class that su…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Brian B. v. Stalder

3:98-cv-00886 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1998

Closed Date: May 2, 2006

In this case, private plaintiffs filed a civil rights class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana to challenge conditions of confinement at the Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth (Tallulah). Plaintiffs were represented by the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Youth Law Center. The Amended Complaint, filed in October 1998, alleged claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; the Individuals with Disabilities Education Ac…
CHILD WELFARE
Anderson v. Houstoun

2:00-cv-04148 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2000

Closed Date: April 1, 2005

This class action involving adult care givers, either relatives of the children or close friends of the children's parents, caring for Pennsylvania children whose parents are unable to provide care was filed on August 16, 2000, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs were represented by the Juvenile Law Center and ACLU; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the state for failing to provide for the financial needs of these children, cla…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Wallace v. Powell/H.T. v. Ciavarella

3:09-cv-00286 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2009

Closed Date: Aug. 16, 2022

This case grew out of the criminal misconduct of two state court juvenile judges who sent hundreds of children to juvenile detention facilities because of bribes paid by the companies that ran those detention facilities. On February 13, 2009, the plaintiffs--children who had been adjudicated delinquent found to have violated their probation and parents of those children--brought this class action lawsuit against the judges. The plaintiffs, represented by multiple firms, sought damages against t…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, mecha…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 2018 WL 1310160. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and several other government entities and officials, all under the federal asylum statute and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repre…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
T.M. v. City of Philadelphia

2:89-cv-04630 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 23, 1989

Closed Date: 1996

Five children, represented by attorneys from the Juvenile Law Center and the ACLU of Philadelphia, filed this class action on May 23, 1989 seeking appointment of counsel for all children in Philadelphia County dependency proceedings. Filed under § 1983, the complaint noted that three quarters of children in dependency proceedings in the Juvenile Court of Philadelphia were not represented by counsel. The plaintiffs alleged that the right to counsel was guaranteed by state law and the U.S. Consti…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
In re: the Petition of C.Z., A.O., and Z.S.-W., on behalf of all similarly situated individuals

24 EM 2020 | Pennsylvania state supreme court

Filed Date: April 1, 2020

Closed Date: May 26, 2020

On April 1, 2020, the Juvenile Law Center, the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project, and DLA Piper filed a petition with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, requesting that the Court "reduce the numbers of youth in detention, correctional and other residential facilities across the Commonwealth." Petitioners argued that under state law the Supreme Court had legal authority to reduce youth detentions. They also argued that continuing to detain youths raised significant constitutional concerns, specifi…

Application for Extraordinary Relief Under the Court's King's Bench Jurisdiction

In re: the Petition of C.Z., A.O., and Z.S.-W., on behalf of all similarly situated individuals

April 1, 2020

Docket

In re: the Petition of C.Z., A.O., and Z.S.-W., on behalf of all similarly situated individuals

April 7, 2020

Order Denying Application for Extraordinary Relief Under the Court's King's Bench Jurisdiction

In re: the Petition of C.Z., A.O., and Z.S.-W., on behalf of all similarly situated individuals

April 7, 2020

Application for Relief to File Reply Brief in Support of Petitioners' Application for Extraordinary Relief Under the Court's King's Bench Jurisdiction

C.N. v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services

April 15, 2020

Answer of Department of Corrections Secretary John E. Wetzel to Petitioner's Application for Extraordinary Relief under the Court's King's Bench Jurisdiction

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Wolfe

April 21, 2020