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PRISON CONDITIONS
Lambertz-Brinkman v. Reisch

3:07-cv-03040 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2007

On November 21, 2007, three female inmates in South Dakota Women's Prison filed a class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court of South Dakota, alleging that they were denied medication and treatment for their mental illnesses in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs alleged that they and other inmates were routinely denied medication that had been prescribed by their treating physicians on the orders of prison staff who were not doctors and not aut…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Blake v. Hall

1:78-cv-03051 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1978

This case was an ultimately successful Eighth Amendment challenge of the conditions at a Massachusetts prison. The housing sections were horrendously filthy and the subterranean protective custody unit, where inhabitants had no out-of-cell time, was likened to a medieval dungeon. In 1978, six incarcerated persons filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They alleged there were horrid conditions at the then 23-year-old maximum-security Massachusetts…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
T.W. v. Jacobo

4:13-cv-00457 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2013

This is a state-wide class action brought on behalf of over 300 individuals with psychiatric disabilities segregated in Florida state psychiatric treatment facilities. Plaintiff prisoners and the Protection and Advocacy agency, Disability Rights Florida, alleged that by failing to provide adequate community placements, Defendants created a situation in which individuals with psychiatric disabilities are segregated in large state facilities in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabili…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Equip for Equality v. Ingalls Memorial Hospital

1:03-cv-00797 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2003

This case is about the scope of a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) facilities and patient access authority. On February 3, 2003, Equip for Equality, Inc., Illinois’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Equip for Equality filed this lawsuit against Ingalls Memorial Hospital (Ingalls), a private hospital offering outpatient and inpatient psychiatric services. This case arose because Equip for Equality were denied entry to monitor Ingalls…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Calvin R. v. Peters

1:82-cv-01955 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 1, 1982

This case alleged that Illinois prison officials failed to address violence among their facility's prison population. It culminated in a settlement in 1990. Unfortunately, the publicly available information on this case is limited. Numerous incarcerated persons at Illinois' Stateville Correctional Facility filed this class action suit on April 1, 1982, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Defendants included various officials from the Illinois Department of Correcti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Moorhead v. Lane

2:86-cv-02020 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 1986

This case was a civil rights class action against Illinois prison officials. It alleged discrimination against incarcerated women in housing, training, and pay. It culminated in a consent decree which required the construction of an all-women minimum-security prison and a “good faith” effort to reform education and vocational programs for women. Six incarcerated women filed a class action complaint on January 21, 1986, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Under 42 U.…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Pennington v. Taylor

2:19-cv-00695 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

On September 19, 2019, attorneys from the Juvenile Law Center and Southern Poverty Law Center––representing plaintiffs who, as children, were tried and convicted as adults––filed this lawsuit against Alabama's Attorney General, the Secretary of Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, and others in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Plaintiffs alleged that the state's Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act (SORNA) was an unconstitutional violation of the Eighth…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
UC Hastings v. City of San Francisco

4:20-cv-03033 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

On May 4, 2020, four individuals, a business, and the University of California Hastings School of Law filed a class action lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco in the Northern Federal District of California to challenge living conditions related to accessibility, criminality, and health and safety in a neighborhood called the Tenderloin. The plaintiffs alleged that city/county’s inaction allowed conditions to exist and grow, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, in violation …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stuart v. Huff

1:11-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2011

This case has to do with the “Woman’s Right to Know Act” (the Act), which was enacted on July 28, 2011 after the legislature overrode a veto by the Governor of North Carolina. This case was brought by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, and A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh, Inc., on behalf of various physicians, licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina and other various clinics providing reproductive health care services in North Carolina. The case was b…
EDUCATION
Fobbs v. New Haven Unified School District

4:10-cv-01065 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2009

This case was one of several suits filed against Union City (the “City”) and the New Haven Unified School District (the “District”) following the 2007 death of a 14-year-old Black student who was shot to death by members of a long gang while on the premises of a middle school. The plaintiffs, parents of current and former Black students in the District, sued on behalf of their children. Many of the children witnessed the 2007 shooting, and others faced racially-motivated violence on school grou…