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Goldsby v. Carnes

4:72-cv-20122 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 1972

This case involves a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Jackson County Jail.On January 3, 1973, the District Court John W. Oliver, Jr. issued a memorandum opinion and order, approving the Consent Decree entered into by the parties. Goldsby v. Carnes, 365 F.Supp. 395 (W.D.Mo. 1973). In his opinion, Judge Oliver chronicled the increase of prisoner litigation and the challenges…
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Ray v. Madison Co., et al

1:20-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2020

Closed Date: June 23, 2021

None
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Gordon v. Texas

4:98-cv-00394 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 1998

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 1999

On February 11, 1998, a deaf individual filed a complaint against the State of Texas and the City of Houston alleging that defendants had unlawfully discriminated against him because of his disability. This summary is temporary while we research the case.
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Kentucky County Judge/Executive Association, Inc. (and 112 Counties) v. Commonwealth of KY, Justice & Public Safety Cabinet, Department of Corrections

08-01851 | Kentucky state trial court

Filed Date: 2008

Case Ongoing

Excerpt from an email about this case:Plaintiffs are seeking this action, that KRS 431.215(2) and KRS 441.025(1) are unconstitutional "because said statutes contravene the Kentucky Constitution and declaring that the Commonwealth Kentucky is responsible for reimbursement to the counties for expenses incurred by the counties for prisoners housed in county jails for which the inmate receives a credit for time served, for the reasons set forth..."
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DOJ ADA Investigation of Virginia Regional Jail Authority

No Court

(This is a temporary summary while research is ongoing.) This matter was initiated by a complaint filed with the United States against the Central Virginia Regional Jail (CVRJ), alleging violations of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Specifically, Complainant VS, who is deaf and uses American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate, alleged that CVRJ personnel failed to provide a qualified interpreter or other appropriate auxiliary aids or services so that she could communica…
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Jackson v. Hendrick

Unknown | Pennsylvania state trial court

Filed Date: 1971

This litigation began in 1971 when five prisoners in the Philadelphia Prison System (a jail) filed a class action seeking injunctive relief from conditions of confinement that they alleged violated their constitutional and statutory rights. Plaintiffs were represented by private civil rights lawyers. The case was assigned to a three judge panel of the court of common pleas which, on April 7, 1972, after a lengthy hearing, issued a 264 page opinion--unavailable to us--thatfound that various cond…
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Cottone v. Jenne

0:00-cv-07545 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2000

Closed Date: July 20, 2006

Plaintiff, a personal representative for his son, sued numerous defendants associated with the Broward County Detention Center in Florida after his son, a pretrial detainee, died at the hands of a mentally ill co-inmate. The detention center was subject to a consent decree from Carruthers v. Cochran (JC-FL-008) that required the jail to institute a system of classification, separation, and monitoring of inmates. In 2002, the district court for the Southern District of Florida (Judge William J…
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Siaki v. Darr

1:11-cv-03074 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2014

This case, filed in federal court in 2011 and settled in 2012, addressed the Adams County Sheriff’s Department and its communication with deaf individuals incarcerated in its jail. The case’s complaint described an incident in May 2010 in which law enforcement was called on two individuals engaged in an argument. Neither of the two--who became the case’s individual plaintiffs--could speak, write, or read effectively in English. When Sheriff’s deputies arrived, the plaintiffs were not able to co…
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Trapp v. Jackson County

4:10-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 1, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2012

This case involved a series of strip searches of female inmates at the Jackson County Jail on July 16, 2008. On June 1, 2010, two ex-inmates of the jail filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued Jackson County; the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department; the Sheriff, in his official and individual capacities; and the Jail Commander, in his official and individual capacities. Represen…

Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial

June 1, 2010

Entry on Plaintiffs’ Motion for Class Certification and Motion to Appoint Counsel

July 27, 2011

Joint Motion for an Order (1) Preliminarily Approving Stipulation of Settlement Including Class Counsels’ Fees; (2) Approving the Form and Manner of Notices to the Class Members of the Proposed Settlement; (3) Scheduling a Fairness Hearing for the Final Consideration and Approval of the Stipulation of Settlement; and (4) for an Order Finally Approving the Stipulation of the Settlement Following the Fairness Hearing

July 10, 2012

Order (1) Preliminary Approving Stipulation of Settlement including Class Counsel's Fees; (2) Approving the Form and Manner of Notices to the Class Members of the Proposed Settlement; and (3) Scheduling a Fairness Hearing for the Final Consideration and Approval of the Stipulation of Settlement

July 16, 2012

Order of Final Approval of the Stipulation of Settlement, Including Class Counsels Fees and Costs

Oct. 16, 2012

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Dunsmore v. State of California

3:20-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: March 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)   This case challenged conditions in San Diego County jails.