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JAIL CONDITIONS
Huss v. Spokane County

2:05-cv-00180 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: June 13, 2005

Closed Date: 2012

On June 13, 2005, represented by the Center for Justice, in Spokane, the plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, seeking to strike down a Washington state statute as unconstitutional. The statute, RCW § 70.48.390, allowed jails to require each person who is booked into jail to pay a fee based on the Jail's actual booking costs or one hundred dollars, whichever is less. The fee is payable immediately from any money then po…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Allen v. Leis

1:00-cv-00261 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 5, 2000

Closed Date: 2004

On April 5, 2000, a pre-trial detainee represented by private counsel filed a class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, challenging the Hamilton County Prisoner Reimbursement Policy, also known as the "Pay-for-Stay" Program. The program required inmates to reimburse Hamilton County for expenses incurred by reason of that person's confinement, including a $30.00 "Book-in-Fee." When detainees were booke…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Williams v. Clinch County, GA

7:04-cv-00124 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 2, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

On November 2, 2004, two former inmates of Homerville, Georgia's Clinch County Jail filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, challenging the policy of charging Jail inmates fees for room and board. Plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and a private law firm, maintained that the 30-year-old practice violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the Georgia Constitut…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Mann v. Georgia Department of Corrections

S07A1043 | Georgia state supreme court

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2003

Closed Date: Nov. 21, 2007

This case, brought in state court in Georgia, involved a constitutional challenge to a Georgia state law which placed restrictions on where sex offenders could live or work. The law, OCGA § 42-1-15, prohibited registered sex offenders from residing or working at a location that was within 1,000 feet of any child care facility, church, school or area where minors congregate.Appellant Anthony Mann was a registered sexual offender. Mann had previously challenged the law that prohibited him from li…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
California Hospital Association v. Maxwell-Jolly

2:09-cv-03694 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 22, 2009

Closed Date: 2015

On May 22, 2009, a trade association representing the interests of hospitals in the State of California filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Health Care Services in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, brought suit under the Supremacy Clause; 42 U.S.C. § 1983; the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201; Title XIX of the Social Security (Medicaid) Act, 42 U.S.C §1396; and the state con…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Livingston County Sheriff Bob Bezotte

2:11-cv-13460 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2011

On August 9, 2011, Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), doing business as Prison Legal News (PLN), a publisher that produces a monthly journal concerning criminal justice issues, filed suit in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan against the Livingston County Sheriff and Livingston County under 42 U.S.C. §1983. PLN, represented by private counsel and the Human Rights Defense Center, claimed that defendants had implemented a mail policy at the Livingston County Jail that re…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sorrentino v. Godinez

1:12-cv-06757 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2012

Closed Date: 2015

On August 22, 2012, two individuals incarcerated by the Illinois Department of Corrections filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois under the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, et seq., against the State of Illinois. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the Uptown People's Law Center, alleged that prison employees confiscated several items of personal property from their cells. They asked the Court for a …
POLICING
Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles

2:16-cv-01750 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Closed Date: May 31, 2022

On March 14, 2016, several homeless individuals (one with a disability) and two organizations that help homeless individuals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the City of Los Angeles, seeking a declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, and damages under 28 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and state law. The plaintiffs alleged continuing violations of the plaintiffs' rights under the Fourth, Fift…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Does, 1-104 v. Wasden

1:16-cv-00429 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2016

On September 22, 2016, this complaint was filed under 42 U.S.C. §1983 on behalf of 104 unnamed sexual offenders, identified as John or Jane Does, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Idaho against the Idaho Attorney General, the Idaho Department of Corrections, and the Idaho State Police Force. The plaintiffs alleged that Idaho’s Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-to-Know Act (“SORA”) was unconstitutionally vague in violation of the Due Process and …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse

1:14-cv-01043 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2014

Closed Date: March 20, 2018

Prior to this case, five Native American petitioners brought an administrative complaint seeking the cancellation of the Washington Redskins’ (Pro-Football) trademarks containing the word “Redskins” because, they said, the word disparaged Native Americans and violated Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1520(a). The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“TTAB”) ruled in the petitioners’ favor and cancelled six federal trademark registrations containin…