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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
VAYLA New Orleans v. Schedler

3:16-cv-00305 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 4, 2016

Closed Date: June 13, 2016

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On May 4, 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Fair Elections Legal Network filed suit on behalf of three naturalized citizens challenging an 1874 Louisiana requirement that naturalized citizens provide citizenship documents when registering to vote. The suit was filed against the Louisiana Secretary of State and Louisiana Commissioner of Elections in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. 
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Velazquez v. Legal Services Corp

1:97-cv-00182 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 1997

Closed Date: July 23, 2013

Plaintiff lawyers, indigent clients, and grantees filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleging that government restrictions on the activities of organizations who accepted federal funds distributed by the Legal Services Corporation ("LSC") were unconstitutional. LSC was a federally-chartered nonprofit corporation created and funded by Congress to distribute federal funds to local legal assistance programs that provided basic legal services for the indige…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Robinson v. District of Columbia Board of Elections

1:20-cv-01364 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 21, 2020

Closed Date: June 20, 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/06/2020, Washington DC's Board of Elections closed 14 of 17 polling stations in Ward 8, an area that is over 92% African-American, in response to COVID-19. Plaintiffs claim that since at least 2019, an unknown number of Ward 8 residents have not received mail-in ballots. The voters who do not receive mail-in ballots in …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee and United States of America v. Macon County School Board (M.D. Ala. cases)

3:70-cv-00846 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1970

This Clearinghouse entry discusses the post 1970 proceedings in Lee v. Macon County, a seminal Alabama desegregation case. That case originated in the Middle District of Alabama and was transferred to a three-judge district court which supervised school desegregation across the state. However, after 1970, the statewide case was dissolved and desegregation cases in individual school districts were sent to the judicial districts that encompassed them. This Clearinghouse entry describes the Lee li…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Branson v. Winter

81-78807 | California state trial court

Filed Date: March 27, 1981

On March 27, 1981, a prisoner at the jail in Santa Clara County, California, appearing before a state judge to plead guilty to grand theft, handed the judge a petition for habeas corpus, challenging the conditions of confinement which were alleged to include overcrowding and inhumane conditions. The Santa Clara County Superior Court (Judge Bruce Allen) invited a local public interest lawyer, at the Public Interest Law Foundation, to convert the case to a class action and represent the prisoners…
JAIL CONDITIONS
John Does 1-100 v. Boyd

4:84-cv-00378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: April 20, 1984

Four anonymous pretrial detainees brought a section 1983 action against the Dakota County Sheriff, complaining that the county jail's indiscriminate strip search policy was unconstitutional as applied to them and to similarly situated individuals, specifically pretrial detainees arrested for traffic offenses, regulatory offenses, bench warrants, and misdemeanors. On July 31, 1985, the District Court in Minnesota (Judge Harry MacLaughlin) granted plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment against …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hutchings v. Corum

4:79-cv-00600 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 3, 1979

In 1979, individuals confined at the Clay County Jail (CCJ) in Missouri filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, challenging various conditions of confinement. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief.On March 3, 1980, the District Court (Judge Elmo B. Hunter, Jr.) certified the matter as a class action and created two sub-classes consisting of (1) pre-trial detaine…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Heitman v. Gabriel

5:79-cv-06056 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 1979

Inmates at the Buchanan County Jail in St. Joseph, Missouri, filed a pro se class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the county in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, alleging that their 8th Amendment rights and due process rights had been violated by inadequacies at the jail in the areas of overcrowding, physical environment, religious exercise, medical care, recreational facilities, reading materials, legal materials, sanitation, fire sa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Friend v. Kolodzieczak

3:87-cv-00161 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 18, 1987

On July 18, 1987, a class of all Roman Catholic prisoners at Alameda County's North County Jail in California filed this civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking to secure access to religious services and sacramental articles such as rosary beads and scapulars.At hearings on summary judgment, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Judge Marilyn H. Patel) found that issues regarding pri…
JAIL CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation, Mitchell County (GA)

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Filed Date: 1994

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Mitchell County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Mitchell County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, grievance procedures, exercise, visitation, access to reading materials, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, suicide prevention, general sanitati…