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JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Washington v. Lee

66-cv-02350 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 1966

Closed Date: 1970

On February 18, 1966, a class action lawsuit challenging racial discrimination in Alabama's correctional system was filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against Alabama's Commissioner of Corrections, Board of Corrections, and two defendant classes, defined as all Alabaman sheriffs and all wardens and jailers of city and town jails in Alabama. Five African-American inmates and one white inmate represented the plaintiff class, which purported to represent …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. McKeithen

3:71-cv-00098 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: March 26, 1971

Closed Date: May 2, 2006

This is one of a collection of § 1983 inmate cases filed in Louisiana federal courts to challenge the operation and conditions of confinement in the Louisiana prison system and in parish and city jails through Louisiana. These cases have worked their way through the federal courts over the last four decades and are part of this collection, located at PC-LA, JC-LA and JI-LA.In this case, four Louisiana prison inmates filed a civil rights lawsuit on March 26, 1971, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Mason v. Peyton

68-05611 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 1968

Closed Date: 1974

This class action civil rights pro se lawsuit was filed on February 2, 1968 against the Virginia prison system, alleging unlawful racial segregation of inmates and general unconstitutional conditions of confinement.Our information in this case is limited to the typed docket for the U.S. District Court in Virginia, which is somewhat difficult to read.According to the docket, the District Court initially entered a TRO, prohibiting the defendants from the following: denying inmate access to attorn…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Lozano v. City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania

3:06-cv-01586 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2016

In this lawsuit, filed on August 15, 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, two property owners challenged the Hazleton, Pennsylvania ordinance penalizing those who rent to or hire undocumented immigrants. This was the first city ordinance of its kind, and the lawsuit received a great deal of press. The ordinance, titled "Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance" (Immigration Ordinance), immediately served as a model for several dozen other cities' similar enac…
PUBLIC HOUSING
NAACP, Boston Chapter v. Boston Housing Authority

1:88-cv-01155 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 14, 1988

This is a case about racially segregated public housing in Boston. On June 14, 1988, the Boston chapter of the NAACP filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiff sued the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), the mayor of Boston, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Development, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981-1983, 3604, 3608; and …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Garrett v. City of Escondido, California

3:06-cv-02434 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2006

This is another case, like those in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (IM-PA-1), Valley Park, Missouri (IM-MO-1), and Riverside, New Jersey (IM-NJ-1, and IM-NJ-2) about a city's efforts to bar undocumented immigrants from its jurisdiction. In this case, the City of Escondido passed an ordinance preventing landlords from renting or "harboring" illegal aliens in their property and imposing other related restrictions on rental and eviction proceedings. On November 3, 2006, a consortium of public interest …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Assembly of God Church Riverside v. Township of Riverside, New Jersey

1:06-cv-03842 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2007

Plaintiffs filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey to challenge the constitutionality of the Town of Riverside Ordinance 2006-16 ("Illegal Immigration Relief Act"), which forbid housing and employment of undocumented immigrants. Plaintiffs alleged that the Ordinance was an improper attempt by local government to enforce federal immigration laws in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and that it caused national origin discrimination in vio…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Stewart v. Cherokee County, GA

1:07-cv-00015 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2007

Closed Date: 2007

On January 4, 2007, plaintiffs, the owner and operator of multiple rental units and unnamed tenants, filed suit against Cherokee County, Georgia in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to challenge County Ordinance No. 2006-003 which purported to establish penalties for "the harboring of illegal aliens" in the County. The Ordinance was similar to others recently passed by cities seeking to expel undocumented immigrants from their boundaries. Immediately following the f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch

3:06-cv-02376 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 26, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On December 26, 2006 the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU), along with the ACLU's National Immigrants' Rights Project, filed a civil rights suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against the City of Farmers Branch, challenging the City's recently adopted Ordinance 2892. The Ordinance required landlords to verify the U.S. Citizenship or "eligible immigration status" of prospec…