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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
People First of Tenn. v. Arlington Developmental Center

2:92-cv-02213 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 9, 1992

Closed Date: 1999

On December 12, 1991, People First of Tennessee filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on behalf of its members who were residents of Arlington Developmental Center (ADC) against the center and state agencies. The plaintiffs were represented by the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia and private attorneys. On March 5, 1992, this case was transferred to the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on defendants' m…
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Territory of Guam

1:91-cv-00020 | District Court of Guam

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 1991

Closed Date: 2017

On May 12, 1986, the United States Department of Justice notified the Governor of Guam that it intended to investigate the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (DMHSA) Inpatient United and the Adult Correctional Facility (ACF) under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. On August 11, 1987, the Department of Justice announced its findings, which stated that conditions at DMHRA, ACR, and Rosario Detention Facility (RDF) violated the constitutional…
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Detroit, Michigan

2:03-cv-72258 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 12, 2003

Closed Date: May 31, 2016

On June 12, 2003, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Detroit. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 14141, the DOJ alleged a pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct by officers of the Detroit Police Department (DPD), including the excessive use of force, false arrest, improper warrantless searches and failure to protect detainees. Contemporaneously with the filing o…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
In re Juvenile Justice Facilities

3:97-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 2, 1997

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2003

This case was part of the collection of § 1983 inmate cases that had been pending in the Louisiana federal courts, challenging the operation and conditions of confinement in the Louisiana prison system and in parish and city jails through Louisiana. See the cases categories PC-LA, JC-LA and JI-LA of this collection.Judge Frank J. Polozola of the U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana presided over many of the Louisiana prison and jail cases. In an effort to better manage those cases…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Whitaker v. Perdue

4:06-cv-00140 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 20, 2006

On June 20, 2006, six low-level sex offenders filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, against the state of Georgia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the ACLU of Georgia, challenged provisions of the state's new sex offender law that prevented sex offenders from living and working within one-thousand feet of school bus stops and churches. The plaintiffs had committed their crimes when they were young …
CHILD WELFARE
Charlie and Nadine H. v. Corzine

2:99-cv-03678 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1999

Closed Date: April 25, 2023

On August 4, 1999, a group of children in the legal and/or physical custody of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and DYFS in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Represented in part by Children's Rights, Inc., the plaintiffs alleged that DYFS failed to protect them from abuse, failed to provide them with services such as medical care, and failed to provide DYFS caseworkers with adequate resources and…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PUBLIC HOUSING
Christian Community Action v. Cisneros

3:91-cv-00296 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: June 3, 1991

Closed Date: Jan. 28, 2008

On June 3, 1991, plaintiffs brought this action under the Fair Housing Act. Plaintiffs alleged a housing demolition and replacement plan for the former Elm Haven high-rises in New Haven was being carried out in violation of the Fair Housing Act and HUD siting requirements, as the local housing authority began to locate replacement housing in segregated neighborhoods. The Court approved the parties' settlement agreement in July 1995. The settlement consisted of two primary elements: 1) a scatte…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Meza v. Livingston

1:05-cv-01008 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2005

Closed Date: 2015

On December 5, 2005, a convicted murderer on parole in Texas filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. The plaintiff is represented by both public and private counsel. The plaintiff asked the court for a declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, and damages. The plaintiff asked t…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Zaborowski v. Sheriff of Cook County

1:08-cv-06946 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 4, 2008

Closed Date: 2018

On December 4, 2008, a class of pregnant women who gave birth while incarcerated in the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Cook County in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages, claiming that their Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights and state law had been violated. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that de…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nunez and United States v. City of New York

1:11-cv-05845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

On August 18, 2011, a class of incarcerated people filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment against the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC). The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and damages, claiming that DOC officers routinely inflicted wanton physical violence on prisoners and deliberately falsifi…