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JAIL CONDITIONS
Duran v. Elrod

1:74-cv-02949 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 1974

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2011

On October 11, 1974, pretrial detainees in the custody of the Cook County, Illinois, Department of Corrections brought a class action suit against county officials under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging violations of their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to provide safe and humane conditions of confinement. The plaintiffs were represented in part by the MacArthur Justice Center of the University of Chicago. The District C…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Pigford v. Glickman

1:97-cv-01978 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 1997

On August 28, 1997, three African-American farmers, on behalf of a putative class of 641 African-American farmers, filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA") under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act ("ECOA"), 15 U.S.C. § 1691, and the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"), 5 U.S.C. § 551. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and monetary relief, alleging that both the USDA and county officials to whom the USDA delegated a…