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JAIL CONDITIONS
Wilson v. Kelley & Bloodworth

5:73-cv-02922 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 1973

Closed Date: Nov. 12, 1976

Plaintiffs, including white, black, former, present, and prospective inmates in all Georgia penal institutions, challenged the constitutionality of segregation in Georgia jails. In July 1968, a three-judge panel in the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Judges Sidney Smith, Frank Hooper, and Elbert Tuttle) certified plaintiffs' class, held that any segregated custody subsequent to January 1, 1969 is unconstitutional, and ordered the Director of the Board of Corrections and al…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.

65-00301 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 1965

Closed Date: June 17, 1968

This case was one of the most important civil rights precedents of the 1960s. It began when the Plaintiffs, prospective African-American homebuyers, applied to purchase a property from Defendant-home developer, who rejected them solely on the basis of their race. Plaintiffs sued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri under 42 U.S.C. 1981, 1982, 1983, and 2000e, alleging that a race-based denial of a home purchase violated federal civil rights laws, especially the requi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Jama v. United States Immigration and Natural Service

2:97-cv-03093 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 16, 1997

Closed Date: Aug. 9, 2010

The Jama lawsuit is a companion case to the class action, Brown v. Esmor Correctional Services, Inc., No. 98-1282(DRD) and Joaquin DaSilva v. Esmor Correctional Services Incorporated, et al., No. 96-3755(DRD), which were also pending in to U.S. District Court District of New Jersey. All three cases, Jama, Brown and DaSilva were filed on behalf of undocumented aliens who were detained at a facility that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (''INS'') maintained in Elizabeth, New Jersey pend…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Freeman v. Pitts

1:68-cv-11946 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: July 5, 1968

Closed Date: 1996

This school desegregation case began after the DeKalb County School System (DCSS) adopted a free choice program in order to comply with the Supreme Court’s integration mandate in Brown v. Board of Education. The plan had little overall effect; a few black students decided to attend the previously all-white schools, but no white students decided to attend the previously all-black schools. This summary is based on information from historical sources and judicial opinions. On July 5, 1968, several…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States v. Fordice

4:75-cv-00009 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1975

Closed Date: 2004

This is a school desegregation case originating in Mississippi and concerning the desegregation process of the Mississippi public university system. This summary is based on information from historical sources and judicial opinions. After the integration mandate of Brown v. Board of Education, Mississippi maintained its dual education system in its public universities. The pre-trial history of the case is summarized in Ayers v. Allain, 674 F.Supp. 1523 (N.D.Miss.1987). In 1969 the Department of…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Katzenbach v. McClung

64-cv-00448 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 31, 1964

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 1964

This lawsuit is about the scope of the federal government's power to prohibit race discrimination by private entities. It involved Ollie's, a Birmingham, AL restaurant that refused to provide sit-in dining to Black customers (Montgomery Advertiser, Dec. 17, 1964). On July 31, 1964, the owners sued the Attorney General of the United States in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama to prevent enforcement against them of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Serra v. Lappin

3:07-cv-01589 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 20, 2007

On July 20, 2007, former prison inmates filed a complaint against the United States Bureau of Prisons on behalf of a class of federal prisoners who earned wages for prison jobs. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Martin Jenkins (retired) alleged that the prison wages (as low as 19 cents per hour) violated the Fifth and Thirteenth Amendments and International Law. The plaintiffs sought declaratory relief and an injunction ordering prison of…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Bell v. City of Jackson

3:15-cv-00732 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2015

Closed Date: 2016

On October 9, 2015, seven impoverished individuals incarcerated by the City of Jackson filed this class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, federal anti-trafficking laws, and the declaratory judgment act in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District Court of Mississippi. The plaintiffs alleged that they were imprisoned because they were unable to pay debts owed to the City for traffic violations and other misdemeanor offenses. As a result, the plaintiffs argued that the City violated their Si…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Washington Park Lead Comm. v. EPA

2:98-cv-00421 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 17, 1998

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