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JAIL CONDITIONS
Terry v. Hill

4:01-cv-00458 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: July 7, 2001

On July 7, 2001, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas filed suit in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Director of the Arkansas Division of Mental Health Services and the Sheriff of Sebastian County Jail, for violation of an inmate's due process rights to mental illness treatment of a pretrial detainee with a history of serious mental illness. The inmate was held in pretrial detention without a date set for trial while hi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harrington v. Devito

1:74-cv-03290 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 1974

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2011

Pretrial detainees, incarcerated in Cook County, Illinois, were in need of mental health care; they brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois under 42 U.S.C. §1983 alleging that state and county officials failed to provide it. After several years of negotiations under court supervision, the parties settled the case by consent order (the "Agreed Order") in 1978. Among other things, the Agreed Order ordered the Defendants to follow certain procedures respe…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Inmates of Boys' Training School v. Lindgren

1:71-cv-04529 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 1998

Closed Date: July 24, 2017

In 1971, a group of juvenile inmates filed suit in the United States District Court, in the District of Rhode Island pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge conditions of their confinement at the Rhode Island's Boys' Training School. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as class certification.In 1972, a temporary restraining order was entered by Judge Raymond Pettine and the matter was certified as a class action. On July 28, 1972, Judge Pettine issued an order f…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Horton v. Williams

3:94-cv-05428 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 1994

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2001

On August 11, 1994, juvenile plaintiffs filed a § 1983 civil rights class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (Tacoma), challenging conditions of confinement at the Green Hill School (GHS). Plaintiffs were represented by attorneys for the National Center for Youth Law Columbia Legal Services and sought declaratory and injunctive relief.Plaintiffs amended their Complaint on August 17, 1994. Defendants moved to dismiss, which was denied by the District …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Harrison v. Barkley

9:95-cv-00964 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: July 17, 1995

Closed Date: 2001

On July 17, 1995, an inmate at the Riverview Correctional Facility in Ogdensburg, New York, filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the prison in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. The plaintiff asked the court for $80,000 in damages, alleging that his constitutional rights had been violated when the defendants failed to treat him for a tooth cavity. On April 14, 1997, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York (J…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rahim X v. Morris

7:96-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: May 23, 1996

Closed Date: 1997

On May 23, 1996, an inmate at the Buckingham Correctional Center in Virginia filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act against the Virginia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. He alleged that his constitutional rights had been violated by the prison's policy that required an inmate to provide a written statement from a religious official before they would give him a religious diet. The defendant resc…
POLICING
People of the State of New York v. Wallkill

7:01-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2001

Closed Date: Feb. 28, 2006

This case involved misconduct by the Wallkill Police Department (WPD). On January 18, 2001, the Attorney General filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Town of Wallkill (Town), seeking injunctive relief to reform and monitor the WPD. The case was assigned to District Judge Colleen McMahon. The lawsuit was the offshoot of the Attorney General's investigation of the WPD. The investigation revealed a pattern of pervasive misconduct, including…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
ACORN v. Edgar

1:95-cv-00174 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 1995

Closed Date: 1995

On January 11, 1995, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Equip for Equality, and several individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the State of Illinois in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, asking the court to compel the defendants to enforce the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), 42 U.S.C. Section 1973gg, et seq., usually known as the Motor Voter law. The defendants counterargued that the law in question was unconsti…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harper v. Bennett

1:04-cv-01416 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 19, 2004

Closed Date: 2015

On May 19, 2004, inmates at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued Fulton County and the Georgia Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the conditions of their confinement under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The class action suit, brought on behalf of inmates who were currently or would be incarcerated in the future at the Fulton County Jail facilities in Atla…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. BOEING

2:05-cv-04715 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 2005

Closed Date: 2007

On June 29, 2005, the Los Angeles office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against Boeing Electron Dynamic Devices Inc., and L-3 Communications - Electron Technologies Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the constitutional rights of the complainant by discriminating against her in the workplace. We have only the docket in this case, so we have no further informati…