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EDUCATION
Mansorian v. Regents of University of California

2:03-cv-02591 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2003

Closed Date: 2012

On December 18, 2003, current and former female wrestlers at the University of California-Davis ("UC Davis") filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs sued UC Davis on behalf of all current and future female Davis students denied equal athletic participation opportunities and scholarships. The plaintiffs sought damages and injunctive relief under Title IX and also asserted equal protection claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.During the 2…
CHILD WELFARE
Sheila A. v. Finney

Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: 1989

Case Ongoing

In January 1989, a local attorney seeking additional foster care beds for Shawnee County children field this lawsuit in Shawnee County District Court. The Children's Rights Project of the ACLU filed an amended petition on February 1990 and made the suit a class action, which contended that the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services of Kansas was not in compliance with state and federal law and was violating the constitutional rights of Kansas children. They described numerous instanc…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Williams v. Niagara County

1:06-cv-00291 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: May 5, 2006

Case Ongoing

On May 5, 2006, Plaintiffs, represented by several private law firms, filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, challenging the constitutionality of the Niagara County Sheriff's blanket strip search policy. Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that, following their arrests for petty crimes, they were subjected to the Sheriff's blanket policy of strip-searching all individuals who entered the Niagara County Jail, regardless of the c…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Mann v. Donald

7:08-cv-00005 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 2008

Case Ongoing

On January 8, 2008, a group of inmates filed a class action civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that officers with the Georgia Department of Corrections had engaged in a pattern and practice of systematically beating restrained inmates in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, the civil rights laws of the United States and the Georgia Constitution and laws. Plaintiffs alleged that the beatings…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Bibb v. Montgomery County Jail

2:76-cv-00380 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 1976

Closed Date: Feb. 21, 1992

In 1976 (according to the docket number), inmates of the Montgomery County Jail in Alabama filed a series of lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against state and county officials for constitutional violations in conditions at the jail, including overcrowding. The suits were consolidated and the parties entered into a consent decree that mostly vindicated the plaintiffs' claims. The district court (Judge Robert E. Varner) fou…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Davis v. Roberts

8:96-cv-00682 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: April 8, 1996

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 1998

In 1975, litigation was initiated in the District Court for the Middle District of Florida to challenge the conditions of the Pinellas County Jail. The case, styled Davis v. Roberts, resulted in the Jail being placed under the oversight of the Court to rectify various constitutional violations. The Court appointed a monitor to review the conditions of the jail and to submit annual reports on the Jail's compliance. Dr. Linda Smith, who served as monitor during 1993 and 1994, issued a report no…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Stroman v. Griffin

4:70-cv-02690 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: 1970

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 1971

In 1968, the District Court in the Northern District of Georgia issued a state-wide injunction requiring integration of all city and county jails and correctional facilities in Wilson v. Kelley, 294 F. Supp. 1005 (N.D. Ga. 1968). In 1970, two plaintiffs brought a civil rights class action in the District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, complaining of segregation in the Chatham County Jail in violation of the Kelley injunction. The district court (Chief Judge Alexander Lawrence) he…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dorsey v. Adams

S03C1680 | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: 1998

Closed Date: Nov. 10, 2003

Inmates in the DeKalb County Jail brought suit in Georgia state court against the county, the sheriff, and others alleging inadequate medical care at the jail. Plaintiffs were represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights. The parties settled; in 2001, the Georgia Superior Court in DeKalb County (Judge Fuller) entered a consent decree. Later that year, plaintiffs moved for a contempt judgment, and court granted the motion. The county appealed, and the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Harris v. McDonnell

5:13-cv-00077 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On August 1, 2013, two same-sex couples filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia against the state of Virginia, under 42 U.S. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgment Act. The plaintiffs, represented by the national ACLU, the ACLU of Virginia, Lambda Legal and private counsel, asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the state's refusal to allow same-sex couples to marry or to recognize same-sex couples married in other states v…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Brown v. Vann

2:77-00554 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 25, 1977

This was a desegregation suit filed against the Birmingham City jail. It also involved population reduction, sanitation, and other issues. An order for the plaintiffs was entered on April 18, 1978. We have no further information about the case.