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PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Jackson

3:93-cv-00124 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 3, 1993

Closed Date: 1994

An indictment was entered against Hershel Jackson, an Arkansas corrections officer, charging a violation of 18 U.S.C § 242 sometime prior to 1956. The elements of a crime under Section 242 are (1) action taken under color of state law, (2) willfully to subject to the deprivation of rights protected by the Constitution of, (3) an inhabitant of any State. Defendant was charged with beating James Anderson, a prisoner, with a stick or a club for the purposes of punishing him. The defendant argue…
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. LaVallee

1:00-cr-00481 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 2, 2000

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2011

On November 2, 2000, a federal grand jury indicted seven officers of the United States Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. The indictment, superseded in February 2001, charged the defendants with one count of conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate by falsely justifying uses of force against inmates; the remaining nine counts alleged physical assaults of individual inmates, depriving them of their Eighth Amendment right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. The ch…
POLICING
United States v. Cooney

62-cr-16837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: 1962

This case involved the indictment of five defendants--two deputy sheriffs of Adams County, Colorado in their official capacity, two private detectives, and the ex-husband of the victim--by the United States of America for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 242. The federal government filed the indictment against the defendants on February 28, 1962 in the United States District Court for the District Court of Colorado. The case was assigned to District Judge Olin Hatfield Chilson. The defendants were cha…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Prince v. Aiellos

2:09-cv-05429 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2009

On October 23, 2009, an individual plaintiff filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Hackensack Police Department, Hackensack Municipal Court, Bergen County Jail in the City of Hackensack, Bergen County Municipal Court, and Bergen County Prosecutor. The plaintiff, representing himself pro se, sought compensatory and punitive damages plus special damages for future legal fees. The plaintiff specifically claimed that the defenda…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Ehm v. Board of Trustees

5:06-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2006

Closed Date: May 31, 2006

This is a case about whether the U.S. Constitution, federal law, and Texas state law require the direct election of members of the Board of Trustees of the San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority. On February 2, 2006, a pro se plaintiff filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas alleging that the Board of Trustees of the San Antonio Transit Authority violated 42 U.S.C. § 1983 the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitutio…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Smith v. Secretary of State

3:16-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Closed Date: May 24, 2016

The plaintiff, a former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, filed this specific lawsuit on March 14, 2016 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against Arkansas Secretary of State, Mark Martin, in his personal and official capacities. Prior to the lawsuit, in 2012, the plaintiff was prevented from registering with the Democratic Party of Arkansas as a re-election candidate by a state court order finding him ineligible to hold public office due to a felony …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Smith v. Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners

4:15-cv-00521 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2015

Closed Date: April 25, 2016

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