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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Trust Women Foundation Inc. v. Schmidt

2018-CV-844 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2018

On November 8, 2018, the Trust Women Foundation ("Trust Women") challenged a law that would have prohibited the provision of abortion care via telemedicine in Kansas. Trust Women is a reproductive health care clinic in Kansas that has relied on telemedicine to expand its practice and meet patient requests for remote care. The Center for Reproductive Rights and a private attorney represented Trust Women in the lawsuit, which they brought in Kansas' third Judicial District (Shawnee County), in Di…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Ville Platte Police Department and Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office

No Court

Filed Date: Aug. 26, 2015

On August 26, 2015, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it was opening an investigation into the Ville Platte Police Department (VPPD) and the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office (EPSO) for their detention techniques. The DOJ also looked into how VPPD and EPSO trained and supervised their officials to prevent unlawful seizures. The investigation lasted for over a year and the findings were released on December 19, 2016. The Special Litigation Section in the DOJ’s Civil R…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Woodcock v. Correct Care Solutions

3:16-cv-00096 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 2015

This class action, brought on behalf of approximately 1,200 prisoners in the custody of the Kentucky Department of Corrections diagnosed with Hepatitis C, and those who might be diagnosed in the future, was filed in Kentucky state court in 2015, and removed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on December 7, 2016. Represented by the civil rights firm Belzley, Bathurst & Bentley, plaintiffs sued the Kentucky Department of Corrections, several individual employees of …
PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Lowell Correctional Institution

No Court Case | No Court

Filed Date: 2018

In April 2018, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (“DOJ”) opened an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Lowell Correctional Institution and the Lowell Annex, a women’s prison complex in Ocala, Florida. Specifically, the investigation focused on allegations of widespread sexual abuse within the prison and Lowell’s ability to protect incarcerated people from sexual abuse. Throughout 2018 and 2019, the DOJ collected relevant documents and information and conducte…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Inc. v. Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation

86E-0018-G1 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: 1986

The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC), formerly known as the Behavioral Research Institute, is a Massachusetts-based residential care facility for children and young adults with severe autism, mental impairments, and mental illnesses associated with behavioral problems. JRC is known for its use of aversive treatments, especially electric shock therapies, to disincentivize undesirable behaviors. As a result of its use of aversive treatments, JRC has been controversial and the subject of s…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Lunn

20-12276 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2017

On Feb. 8, 2017, a petitioner filed this case in the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts. Represented by counsel at the National Immigrant Justice Center and the Committee for Public Counsel Services, petitioner sued the respondent Commonwealth of Massachusetts.In his Mar. 2, 2017 brief, petitioner alleged he is a noncitizen arraigned by local law enforcement in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on a criminal charge. While he was in custody, Immigration and Customs Enfo…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Perez-Funez v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service

2:81-cv-01457 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 25, 1981

This case involves two consolidated actions, Yanira Pena and Claudia Pena v. INS, 81-cv-1932, and Jose Antonio Perez-Funez v. INS, 81-cv-1457, in which plaintiffs filed separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the manner in which the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) implemented its voluntary departure procedure with respect to unaccompanied minor non-citizens in its custody. Plaintiffs, who were represented by the ACLU Foundati…
EDUCATION
Department of Education OCR Title IX Investigation of Cisco College

06-14-2269 | No Court

Filed Date: 2014

In the spring of 2014, a student at Cisco College filed a complaint with the US Department of Education, Dallas Office for Civil Rights (OCR) alleging that the College failed to comply with Title IX. Specifically, the student asserted that the College failed to promptly and equitably respond to reports of sexual violence, including the complainant’s report. She alleged that because Cisco failed to respond to her sexual assault report appropriately, she and other students were subjected to a sex…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cohen v. DiPaolo

Civ. A. No. 93-7314-B | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 1993

On December 29, 1993, inmates at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk County. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by the institution's extreme overcrowding, inadequate facilities, and inadequate provisions of clothing.On July 13, 1995, the Superior Court of Massachusetts (Judge Patrick J. K…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Arriola v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

12-01208 | Kentucky state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2012

This lawsuit was brought against the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC) on July 7, 2014, by inmates and former inmates who have spent time in Kansas penal custody and who were denied “Earned Good Time” (EGT) credits or had their EGT credits revoked. The EGT system is part of a law passed by the Kentucky legislature (KRS 197.045), which is intended to reduce recidivism among inmates in the custody of KDOC by offering them credits that can be applied towards a sentence reduction for comple…