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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bryan v. Abramson, Jr.

1:10-cv-00079 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2010

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2010

Plaintiff Adelbert Bryan, a resident of St. Croix of the U.S. Virgin Islands, filed suit against John Abramson, Jr. as Supervisor of Elections, the Joint Board of Elections and Government of the Virgin Islands ("Defendants") seeking a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order against Defendants to enjoin them from requiring voters who elect not to use electronic voting machines to use provisional ballots instead of paper ballots in the upcoming primary and general elections of 2010…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. CELANESE ACETATE LLC

0:00-cv-03076 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2000

Closed Date: Dec. 3, 2004

On September 29, 2000 the EEOC filed this complaint against Celanese Acetate LLC. in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. It was assigned to Judge Cameron M. Currie. The EEOC alleged that the defendant discriminated against employees on the basis of race, in violation of Section 706(f) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 102 of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. A Black employee of that company, represented by private counsel, intervened pursuant …
POLICING
Vaughn v. City of Seaside

5:99-cv-20462 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 19, 1999

Closed Date: March 21, 2001

This case predates PACER, so its documents are not available electronically.In 1998, Seaside police officers shot and killed an African-American man who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. On May 19, 1999, the spouse and children of the decedent brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging civil rights violations. The plaintiffs sued the City of Seaside, the County of Monterey, the City of Seaside Chief of Police, three individual police of…
PUBLIC HOUSING
NAACP, Boston Chapter v. HUD

1:78-cv-00850 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 17, 1978

Case Ongoing

On April 17, 1978, two citizens of Massachusetts filed lawsuits under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977 against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by racially discriminatory disbursement of federal housing funds in the cities of Boston and…