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PRISON CONDITIONS
Walker v. Johnson

4:81-40336 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 19, 1981

In 1981, a group of incarcerated persons brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the State of Michigan; the Michigan Department of Corrections; and the wardens of Marquette Branch Prison, the State Prison of Southern Michigan, and the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia. The suit alleged that a lockdown imposed by prison officials in response to riots severely restricted the privileges afforded to incarcerated individuals and resulted in …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.P. v. Taft

2:04-cv-00692 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 29, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

On July 29, 2004, several minors held in Ohio juvenile facilities sued the state's governor, its' Division of Youth Services ("DYS"), and the director of that division. The plaintiffs' complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, alleged that plaintiffs and others of their class had been denied access to the courts and deprived of adequate legal services by the state's policies at its' juvenile facilities. Each plaintiff allegedly had been a victim of assault…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bennett v. Spectrum Healthcare

1:02-cv-04993 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2002

Closed Date: 2010

On October 16, 2002, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, private counsel representing a group of New Jersey state prisoners filed a lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against contract medical care providers, their executives, and New Jersey corrections officials. In that complaint and a later, amended version, the prisoners alleged that they and their class had been exposed in the state's prisons to the Hepatitis C virus (HCV), or had been admitted to the prisons but no…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Anstett v. State of Oregon

3:01-cv-01619 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2001

Closed Date: 2007

On November 1, 2001, plaintiffs, current and former inmates of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, challenging the defendants' procedures and policies for testing and treating the Hepatitic C Virus (HCV) in the Oregon inmate population. The plaintiffs brought a number of federal and state law claims, including a claim that the ODOC's HCV treatment policies violated the Eighth Amendment's prohi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bolden v. Walsh Group

1:06-cv-04104 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 28, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2013

On July 28th, 2006 twelve black former employees of or applicants to the Walsh Group filed a class action complaint against the company in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The complaint alleged a variety of discriminatory practices against black employees and applicants. These included systematically laying off black employees while retaining non-black employees, refusing to hire black applicants, giving less desirable and more dangerous assignments to black employees…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Prado-Steiman v. Bush

0:98-cv-06496 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 13, 1998

Closed Date: 2005

On May 13, 1998, two individuals with developmental disabilities eligible for services under Florida's Medicaid Home and Community Based Services Waiver Program ("HCBSW") filed this class action lawsuit against various Florida state officials in their official capacities under the American with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq.; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794; Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396a, et seq., 1396n, et seq., and 42 C.F…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Nelson v. Milwaukee County

2:04-cv-00193 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2004

Closed Date: 2004

On January 28, 2004, residents of adult family homes and community-based residential services who received Family Care services from Milwaukee County filed a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act against Milwaukee County in the Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Defendants removed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on February 25, 2004. Plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the Court for declaratory…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zamora-Garcia v. Moore

7:05-cv-00331 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2005

Closed Date: Feb. 20, 2009

This case started with the filing of Plaintiffs' Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and Class Action Complaint in Zamora-Garcia v. Trominski (Docket No. 7:02-cv-00144) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, McAllen Division, in 2002. The Petition and Complaint, later amended for the sixth time on October 27, 2006, involves both individual and class-wide claims against Federal Defendants (which include officials in the Department of Homeland Security, or "DHS"), Bonding …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Doty v. County of Lassen

2:89-cv-01019 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 25, 1989

Closed Date: 1994

On July 25, 1989, prisoners at the old Lassen County Jail ("Old Jail") filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the County of Lassen and the Sheriff of the County of Lassen. The plaintiffs, represented by the Prisoner Rights Union and private counsel, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that conditions in the Old Jail violated the First, Fourth and Eighth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States as applied to the…
POLICING
United States v. Johnson

1:12-cv-01349 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

On December 20, 2012, following a two-year investigation, the United States of America filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The US sued the Sheriff of Alamance County, North Carolina. The US, represented by the Department of Justice, brought the action under 42 U.S.C. § 14141 and asked the court for declaratory judgment that the Alamance County Sheriff's Office had engaged in conduct infringing rights protected by the United States Co…