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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Keyes v. School District No. 1

1:69-cv-01499 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 1969

Closed Date: 1997

Keyes--the Denver school desegregation case--was the first northern school desegregation case to reach the Supreme Court, and one of the only cases where the Supreme Court identified segregation in northern schools. The Supreme Court’s 1973 opinion was influential in defining “intent” in de facto segregation. The case lasted for decades, so this summary is necessarily partial. Prior to the filing of this lawsuit on November 30, 1969, the Denver School Board adopted three resolutions between Jan…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Williams v. Wallace

2:65-cv-02181 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: March 8, 1965

Closed Date: 1965

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. Despite the Civil Rights Act and the Department of Justice's myriad lawsuits against Alabama state officials for voter discrimination, racial discrimination among Alabama's voters persisted. Tensions in Selma thus also persisted throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. Ultimately, an injunction issued in this case would enable the Selm…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lester v. Commissioner of Philadelphia Prisons

2:87-05893 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 1988

In 1988, inmates confined at the Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center, a jail, represented by private counsel, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against prison officials. Plaintiffs alleged that there were unwarranted acts of violence against inmates by staff.The parties reached a settlement which was approved by the court in June 1988. Under the terms of the agreement, the Philadelphia Prison Society was to investigate any allegations of the …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Fiandaca v. Cunningham

1:83-cv-00400 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: June 30, 1983

On June 30, 1983, female prisoners at the New Hampshire State Prison filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New Hampshire Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs, represented by New Hampshire Legal Assistance and the Disabilities Rights Center, challenged the state's failure to establish a facility for female inmates with programs and services equivalent to those provided to male inmates at the state prison…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Al-Jundi v. Mancusi

1:75-cv-00132 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 1974

Closed Date: Aug. 28, 2000

Background This case is part of the Clearinghouse's special collection on the Attica Uprising. In September of 1971, incarcerated people in New York's Attica Correctional Facility took control of the prison and took several staff members hostage. The uprising ended when state police violently stormed the prison, killing over 40 incarcerated people and staff members. Attica was one of the most significant events in the American prisoners' rights movement and drew public attention to poor conditi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Armstrong v. Bensinger

1:71-02144 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 1971

Closed Date: May 16, 1973

This is a class action brought by people held in the Special Program Unit (SPU) at Stateville Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois. The SPU was part of a trend of “behavior modification units'' designed to control activists and those considered disruptive to the prison. The case arose out of a large fight on June 25, 1971 between 15 guards and people incarcerated and the resulting disciplinary measures. After that incident, the prison was put on general lockdown. In early July 1971, prison staff we…
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States ex rel. Walker v. Mancusi

1:71-cv-00485 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 1971

This case is part of the Clearinghouse's special collection on the Attica Uprising. In September of 1971, incarcerated people in New York's Attica Correctional Facility took control of the prison and took several staff members hostage. The uprising ended when state police violently stormed the prison, killing over 40 incarcerated people and staff members. Attica was one of the most significant events in the American prisoners' rights movement and drew public attention to poor conditions in pris…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Fang v. Saldana

2:17-cv-02092 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 30, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case brought by noncitizen students facing immigration enforcement about the fallout from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting operation. The noncitizens had entered the U.S. on student visas, and had enrolled in the University of Northern New Jersey (UNNJ) to maintain their student visa status after graduating from other U.S. universities and beginning work. As it turned out, in April 2016 ICE revealed that the UNNJ was a fake university it created to investigate and pros…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Walters v. Flint

5:17-cv-10164 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is part of the greater Flint water litigation. Please see our special collection for more information about these cases. This particular case is a class action lawsuit against several engineering companies hired by the City of Flint. These defendants did not join the global settlement between the plaintiffs and various state entities. (See Waid v. Snyder) Litigation over the engineering companies' liability continues - the court held…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jerry M. v. District of Columbia

85-01519 | District of Columbia state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 1985

Case Ongoing

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 Laur…