Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:
828 cases, 65902 documents
Ordered by
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baxley v. Jividen

3:18-cv-01526 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: The plaintiffs in this West Virginia jail conditions class-action case filed an emergency motion for relief on March 25, 2020, seeking an order to require the defendants to develop, disclose, and implement a plan to take appropriate actions to protect the plaintiff class from COVID-19. The court denied the motion because it found that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim. On December 18, 2018, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at West Virginia…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Driver v. Marion County Sheriff

1:14-cv-02076 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2014

Closed Date: Aug. 8, 2022

On December 19, 2014, individuals who were incarcerated in the Marion County correctional system filed this class-action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued the Marion County Sheriff and the Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought money damages for a class of individuals who were incarcerated in the Marion County correctional system for unreasonable pe…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McBean v. City of New York

1:02-cv-05426 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 15, 2002

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2010

On July 15, 2002, inmates of New York City jails filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of New York and jail officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the Court in a series of amended complaints for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the defendants had violated their constitutional rights by subjecting them to strip searches in the absence of re…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rose v. Jividen

5:22-cv-00405 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 2022

Case Ongoing

On September 21, 2022, two men, one currently and one formerly incarcerated in Southern Regional Jail (SRJ), filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. They sought to represent a class of individuals imprisoned in SRJ facilities, which house both pre-trial individuals and those who have received their sentences. They sued the former commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitations (WVDOC), the form…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Howard v. Williams

2:20-cv-01389 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about jail conditions in the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ), particularly access to mental health care for incarcerated people with psychiatric disabilities. On September 15, 2020, five individuals then incarcerated at ACJ, represented by the Abolitionist Law Center, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, and a private firm, brought this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on behalf of themselves and other persons with…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Georgia Advocacy Office v. Jackson

1:19-cv-01634 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 10, 2019

Case Ongoing

On April 10, 2019, two female detainees in the South Fulton Municipal Regional Jail and the Georgia Advocacy Office filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff sued the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office and the South Fulton Municipal Jail under 42 U.S.C.§ 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Georgia Advocacy Office, sought class certification…
EDUCATION
Charles H. v. District of Columbia

1:21-cv-00997 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 9, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the District of Columbia's alleged failure to provide special education and related services to incarcerated students during the COVID-19 pandemic.  D.C. Public Schools was the service provider for certain high school students with disabilities and special education needs, who were enrolled in the D.C. Jail's on-site school through the Inspiring Youth Program (IYP).  IYP Classes for were suspended on March 13, 2020.  For over a year, however, IYP students alleged that instr…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC) or the Erie County Correctional Facili…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Camarlinghi v. Santa Clara County

5:21-cv-03020 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

On April 26, 2021, an individual who had been detained by Santa Clara County brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff sued the County under 42 U.S.C.§ 1983, alleging the county violated his procedural and substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment as well as those of other similarly situated individuals. Represented by private counsel and attorneys from Justice Catalyst Law, the plaintiff sought class …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Gray v. County of Riverside

5:13-cv-00444 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2013

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class action about medical care in the Riverside County jails settled in 2015. On April 4, 2020, plaintiffs brought a motion to enforce the consent decree, seeking implementation of expert-endorsed coronavirus-related protocols including social distancing. On April 16, the Court agreed, requiring planning and potentially prisoner transfers. A formal COVID-19 plan was approved in July 2020 and revised in October 2020 and June 2022. On May 8, 2013, three prisoners in River…