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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.
JAIL CONDITIONS
Giampetruzzi v. Malcolm

1:72-cv-04735 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 1972

In 1972, a group of individuals awaiting trial who had been housed in administrative segregation at the New York City House of Detention for Men filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the New York City Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their placement in administrative segregation violated their constitutional rights because they had been deprived of privileges…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Livingston v. Beeman

13-0867 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: 2010

Deaf persons incarcerated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) sued TDCJ's Executive Director (ED) alleging that he violated the Texas Human Resources Code (THRC) by failing to reasonably accommodate their impairment. Specifically, the inmates alleged that the ED failed to provide them with reasonable access to the telephone system and failed to provide sign language interpreters to allow them to meaningfully participate in educational, religious, and other prison programs. After …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Abdul Wali v. Coughlin

6:84-00379 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: March 19, 1984

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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ambrose v. Malcolm

1:76-cv-00190 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 1976

Case Ongoing

In late 1975 or early 1976, the plaintiffs, pretrial detainees at a New York state detention facility, brought this class action suit against New York City, the New York City Department of Corrections, and its officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of their housing conditions. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that the dormitories Bronx House of Detention were overcrowded as they had a rated capacity of twen…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bryan v. Werner

3:73-00606 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 1973

In 1973, a person incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution, Dallas, Pennsylvania, filed this pro se Section 1983 suit in the Middle District of Pennsylvania against prison officials. Plaintiff alleged that various regulations and practices unconstitutionally restrict inmates' access to the courts. Specifically, plaintiff complained of defendants' refusal to allow inmates to use the Resident Law Clinic for the preparation of writs, damage suits, or civil suits against the prison. To en…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Kennedy v. City of Zanesville

2:03-cv-01047 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2003

Closed Date: April 2, 2009

On November 19, 2003, a group of Black residents of the City of Zanesville, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and the Fair Housing Advocates Association filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the city of Zanesville ("City"), Washington Township ("Township"), Washington Township Trustees, and Muskingum County Commissioners ("County"). The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Hinkley v. Fair

88-064 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: 1988

This case challenged Massachusetts’ policy of civilly committing women suffering from alcoholism in a state prison. In addition to being a significant violation of the committed women’s civil liberties, this practice did not mirror how men facing similar challenges were treated. The plaintiffs, two women who were civilly committed by the Commonwealth in the late 1980s, filed this class action lawsuit in Hampshire County Superior Court in 1988. They were represented by attorneys from the Center …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Brunson v. Board of Trustees of Clarendon County

2:60-cv-07210 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 13, 1960

A group of Black families in South Carolina brought this class-action lawsuit against Clarendon School District No. 1 officials, alleging that the school district racially discriminated against Black students. Defendants included the Board of Trustees of School District No. 1 of Clarendon County, the County Superintendent of Education, the District Superintendent of Education, the chairman of the Board of Trustee, and members of the Board of Trustees. Plaintiffs asserted that defendants were op…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Disabled in Action of Pennsylvania v. Coleman

2:76-cv-01913 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 17, 1976

Closed Date: March 17, 1978

On June 17, 1976, a coalition of disability rights advocate groups, mobile disabled individuals, and elderly individuals filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, as well as federal officials representing the Urban Mass Transportation Administration and the Federal Highway Administration under the Urban Mass Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. §§ 1601, et seq…