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CHILD WELFARE
David B. v. McDonald

1:79-cv-01662 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 25, 1979

Closed Date: 1998

On April 25, 1979, a class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, on behalf of a class of children in Cook County, Illinois, who were either wards of the juvenile court or had petitions for wardship pending, and had emotional, physical, or mental disabilities. The plaintiffs represented by the Cook County Public Guardian alleged that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCSF), the Illinois Department of Mental Health and D…
CHILD WELFARE
Marisol A. v. Giuliani

1:95-cv-10533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1995

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2018

This federal class action was brought by children in the custody of the New York City Child Welfare Administration ("CWA"), and children who, while not in the custody of CWA, are or will be at risk of abuse or neglect and whose status is known or should be known to CWA. It was filed on December 13, 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights Inc., Lawyers for Children, and private counsel, sought class certification, …
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…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Anthony C. v. Pima County

4:82-cv-00501 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 1982

On August 10, 1982, detainees in the Pima County Juvenile Detention Center in Tucson filed this class action lawsuit, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against Pima County. The plaintiffs sued Pima County, the Juvenile Division of the Superior Court of Pima County, the Pima County Court Center, Pima County Detentional Center, and Pima County Board of Supervisors under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 28 U.S.C. § § 2201 and 2202, 20 U…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Nick O. v. Terhune

2:89-cv-00755 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 25, 1989

Closed Date: 2001

On May 25, 1989, a youth confined at the Northern Reception Center Clinic (NRCC) of the California Youth Authority (CYA) filed a class action lawsuit against the NRCC and the CYA pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The class consisted of all current and future residents of the NRCC who are educationally handicapped and who are in need of special ed…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Stevens v. CA Youth Authority

2:01-cv-00675 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 4, 2001

Closed Date: 2003

On April 4, 2001, nine youths in custody of the California Youth Authority ("CYA") filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the CYA in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. The youths, represented by both private counsel and counsel from the Disability Rights Advocates, sought injunctive and declaratory relief under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, the Americans with Disability Act (42 U.S.C. § 12131), the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794) and the…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Bobby M. v. Chiles (Graham & Martinez)

4:83-cv-07003 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 2, 1983

Closed Date: 2000

On January 2, 1983, juveniles filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. §794), challenging their conditions of confinement at the juvenile facilities in the State of Florida. Those facilities included the McPherson Training School in Ocala, the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna and the Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee, subsequently renamed the Eckerd Youth Developmen…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
G.C. v. Coler

0:87-cv-06220 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 27, 1987

Closed Date: Nov. 11, 1987

On March, 27 1987, a handicapped child, through his next friend, filed a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Broward County Regional Juvenile Detention Center. Plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as class certification. Plaintiff alleged overcrowding, lack of security, unsanitary conditions, inadequate health care and infliction of abusive punishment. Plaintiff also brought clai…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Danny O. v. Bowman

1:84-01272 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 1984

Closed Date: 1985

On August 17, 1984, minor children held for treatment at the Idaho State Youth Services Center (YSC) submitted their First Amended Class Action Complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against those State officials who had authority relative to YSC, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The plaintiffs, represented by Idaho Legal Aid, the Youth Law Center, and the National Center for Youth Law (both of San Francisco, California), asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, al…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Donnell C. v. Illinois State Board of Education

1:92-cv-08230 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 1992

Closed Date: 2004

On December 17, 1992, twenty-three school-aged pretrial detainees in the Cook County Jail in Illinois filed this class action lawsuit under the Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The plaintiffs filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, on behalf of all current and future pretrial detainees confined in the divisions of the C…