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PRISON CONDITIONS
Guajardo v. Estelle

4:71-cv-00570 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 21, 1971

Closed Date: Sept. 2, 2002

On May 21, 1971, an inmate in a Texas state prison filed this class action lawsuit on behalf of himself and other inmates in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Texas Department of Corrections ("TDC"), now known as Texas Department of Criminal Justice--Institutional Division ("TDCJ-ID"). The plaintiff, proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that several of TDC's rules and practices on inmate co…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Graves v. Arpaio

2:77-cv-00479 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 16, 1977

This case is over four decades long. As a result, information and documents about the first twenty years of the case are limited because the case predates PACER.In 1977, a group of pretrial detainees in Maricopa County Jail filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and the County Board of Supervisors. Represented by Community Legal Services, the plaintiffs maintained that they were denied the…
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…