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Doe v. Pataki

1:96-cv-01657 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 6, 1996

Closed Date: Dec. 3, 2007

In March 1996, the Plaintiffs--convicted sex offenders who were incarcerated, on parole, or on probation when New York's original Sex Offenders Registration Act ("SORA") took effect on January 21, 1996--filed a class action in the District Court, alleging that the Act violated the Ex Post Facto Clause of the Constitution and deprived the Plaintiffs of their due process and equal protection rights. On cross-motions for summary judgment, the District Judge (Judge Denny Chin) concluded that the SO…
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King v. Walker

1:06-cv-00204 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 2006

Closed Date: 2015

On January 13, 2006, Illinois parolees who were re-arrested for alleged parole violations filed this class action complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) arguing that they had been unconstitutionally denied a timely parole revocation hearing. For violations of their constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amend…
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Does v. City of Indianapolis

1:06-cv-00865 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 31, 2006

Closed Date: June 22, 2007

The city of Indianapolis, Indiana, as consolidated with Marion County, adopted an ordinance in May 2006, barring certain sex offenders (primarily, ones convicted of offenses against children or judicially found to be violent sexual predators) from being within a thousand feet of a public playground, recreation center, bathing beach, swimming or wading pool, sports field or facility, when children are present, unless the offender is accompanied by an adult not required to register as a sex offen…
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Nooner v. Norris

5:06-cv-00110 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 1, 2006

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2008

On May 1, 2006, an inmate awaiting execution at the Supermax Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Represented by the Federal Public Defender, the inmate claimed that the procedures used to carry out lethal injections in Arkansas—specifically the use of potassium chloride in the lethal cocktail of drugs—risked unnecessary conscious suffering in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The…
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Hawkins v. Compartet-Cassani

2:98-cv-05605 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 13, 1998

Closed Date: 2002

On July 13, 1998, a person who was a convicted burglar filed a civil complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He was represented by private counsel and later aided by amicus counsel who appeared in the case on behalf of Amnesty International. The plaintiff alleged that his Fourth and Eighth Amendment constitutional rights were violated when the defendants (the state court judge, Los Angeles County, and associated officials respo…
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In re Lugo

04-135399 | California state trial court

Filed Date: May 26, 2004

On May 26, 2004, a prisoner at San Quentin State Prison in California filed this habeas corpus petition under state law in the Marin County Superior Court. The petitioner claimed that after a denial of parole on February 25, 2003, the California Board of Parole Hearings (BPH) failed to conduct a subsequent parole hearing within a year, thereby violating his due process rights and rights under Cal. Penal Code § 3041.5(b)(2). After reviewing the petition, Superior Court Judge Verna Adams issued a…
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Immel v. Owens

05CV216 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2005

Closed Date: Aug. 30, 2007

Two state prisoners in Colorado filed a pro se civil complaint on September 12, 2005 in the 13th District Court, Logan County, Colorado. They alleged that the defendants (the state's governor and officials of the parole board and corrections department) improperly applied statutory parole guidelines and thereby violated the rights of the plaintiffs and a class of similarly-situated others who, between July 1, 1985, and July 1, 1993, had committed the crimes for which they were incarcerated. T…
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Foote v. Spiegel

2:94-cv-00754 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 1994

Closed Date: Feb. 16, 2001

A motorist brought this suit under § 1983 against Utah State Troopers, corrections officers, and the state of Utah on August 1, 1994 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The motorist alleged that the officers violated her Fourth Amendment rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when they strip searched after a traffic stop. The motorist sought damages for these alleged violations. She was represented by McCullough, Jones & Ivins and the American Civil Liberties Unio…
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Jones v. Allen

2:06-cv-00986 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2006

Closed Date: May 3, 2007

On November 1, 2006, Aaron Lee Jones filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent the state of Alabama from using its lethal injection procedure against him. The complaint alleged that the procedure was not medically approved and would result in extreme pain in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. The plaintiff was represented by private attorneys. On April 17, 2007…
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Morales v. Hickman

3:06-cv-00219 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2006

On January 11, 2006, several inmates at the state prison at San Quentin filed lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, all of whom were scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, alleged that their constitutional rights were threatened, arguing that lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment that violated the Eighth Amendment. They further argued that pancuronium…