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CHILD WELFARE
Salazar v. Edwards

No. 92 Ch 5703 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: 1992

Closed Date: 1999

In 1992, homeless children and their parents filed a class action lawsuit in Illinois State Court against the Illinois State Board of Education, the Illinois Coordinator for Homeless Children and Youth, the State Superintendent of Education, the Chicago School Board, and the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees. A children class and parent class was created. The children class consisted of all children between the ages of three and twenty who were or would be living in Chicago, homeless, and…
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
Bull v. City and County of San Francisco

3:03-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 2003

Closed Date: 2013

On April 23, 2003, nine plaintiffs, acting through private attorneys, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the strip search policy of the City and County of San Francisco ("CCSF"). Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that, under CCSF policy, all prisoners who were placed in the general jail population at the CCSF's jails were subjected to strip and visual body cavity searches, with those refusing to consent be…
JAIL CONDITIONS
People v. McOwens

No. C006755 | California state appellate court

Filed Date: 1989

This case is a challenge in California state court of pre-sentence custody time credit for a criminal defendant, following a federal court decree concerning work time credits for certain inmates.In the earlier case (whose title we do not know), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a consent decree on August 4, 1987, concerning overcrowding conditions at the jail in Yolo County, California (JC-CA-017). The consent decree provided that in order to maintai…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Jerry M. v. District of Columbia

1519-85 | District of Columbia state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 1985

On March 1, 1985, a class of juveniles confined at juvenile detention centers operated by the District of Columbia ("the District") filed a lawsuit against the District under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. They alleged unconstitutional conditions of confinement in violation of the juveniles' Fifth and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiffs specifically challenged the conditions of confinement at Cedar Knoll Youth Center and Oak Hill Youth Center, both in Laure…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Cong v. Foti

2:99-cv-00663 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 1999

Closed Date: Aug. 4, 2000

This 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case was filed in the Eastern District of Louisiana on November 6, 1998 by private counsel on behalf of thirteen Asian immigrant detainees of the Orleans Parish Prison.The suit alleged that correctional officers beat the plaintiffs and conspired with non-immigrant incarcerated people to fight them in 'staged gladiatorial contests.' Along with the § 1983 claim, the plaintiffs simultaneously filed a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to require defendants to allo…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Webre v. Wilson

2:94-cv-03494 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 1994

Closed Date: 1995

On September 8, 1982, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, Lafourche Parish Sheriff Duffy Breaux and Lafourche Parish entered into a consent decree regarding the conditions of the parish jail. When Sheriff Webre replaced Sheriff Breaux in July 1994, he stopped giving to the jail any of the sales tax money levied for law enforcement purposes. On October 27, 1994, Sheriff Webre filed a mandamus action in the 17th Judicial District Court, Parish of Lafourche, Louisian…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Souza v. Hodgson

BRCV2002-00870 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2002

On July 9, 2002 incarcerated people, either serving sentences or awaiting trial at the Bristol County Jail or Bristol County House of Correction, filed this pro se action in the Bristol County Superior Court challenging the validity of cost of care fees, medical care fees, haircut fees and GED fees charged to incarcerated individuals by Bristol County Sheriff Hodgson pursuant to his Bristol County Inmate Financial Responsibility Program. The plaintiffs obtained private counsel who then filed a…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Monaco v. Stone

1:98-cv-03386 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 5, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2016

Background On May 5, 1998, inmates in the Suffolk County Jail in New York filed a putative class action complaint on behalf of all individuals with mental illnesses facing civil commitment in jails and state-run hospitals. The suit also contained some individual claims from an individual plaintiff who was confined in Suffolk County jail and claims from the Mental Disability Law Clinic of Touro Center. The named defendants were various state officials in New York, the New York State Office of M…