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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Evans v. Fenty

1:76-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1976

Closed Date: 2017

On February 23, 1976, six residents of Forest Haven, an institution operated by the District of Columbia for developmentally disabled persons, filed this lawsuit against the District's mayor and its Department of Human Resources. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution; the Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 6001 et seq.); and 32 D.C.…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gates v. Collier [Cook]

4:71-cv-00006 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1971

Case Ongoing

On February 8, 1971, inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Mississippi filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1994, against the Penitentiary, the Mississippi Penitentiary Board and the Governor in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, Greenville Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU National Prison Project and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that condition…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Montez v. Owens

1:92-cv-00870 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 5, 1992

Case Ongoing

This federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, in 1992, by six incarcerated individuals with disabilities who alleged that Colorado's prisons did not comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In 1996, the case became certified as a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all incarcerated individuals with disabilities.In 2003, the state Department of Corrections agreed in a multimillion-dollar settle…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
San Francisco NAACP v. San Francisco Unified School District

3:78-cv-01445 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 30, 1978

Closed Date: 2005

On 06/30/1978, the San Francisco branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ("SFNAACP") and a group of black parents filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. They charged the San Francisco Unified School District, its board members and its superintendent, the California State Board of Education and its members, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the State Department of Education with engaging …