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PRISON CONDITIONS
Armstrong v. Newsom

4:94-cv-02307 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 1994

On June 29, 1994, eleven California state prisoners and parolees with disabilities filed this lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections—now the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”)—in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California. Represented by the Prison Law Office, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the CDCR had discriminated against them and all others similarly situat…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lippert v. Godinez

1:10-cv-04603 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 23, 2010

On July 23, 2010, a prisoner at Stateville Correction Center filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued Wexford Health Services and the Illinois Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, representing himself pro se, asked the court for monetary damages and injunctive relief. The plaintiff claimed that the defendants were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs resulting from Type 1 Diabetes, viola…
POLICING
United States v. Puerto Rico

3:12-cv-02039 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2012

On December 21, 2012, after a thorough investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its police department pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The Government alleged that the Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments by engaging in unlawful patterns and practices. Filed along with the complaint was…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Moore v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board

2:65-cv-15556 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: 1965

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] This is a lawsuit in which the plaintiffs sought to require the Tangipahoa Parish School Board to afford African-American students equal protection of the laws as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, and transition to a unitary school system. The case was filed on May 3, 1965, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.