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PRISON CONDITIONS
Monroe v. Baldwin

3:18-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2018

Case Ongoing

On January 31, 2018, five transgender women housed in Illinois men’s prisons brought a class action suit against the governor of Illinois, the Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections (“IDOC”), IDOC’s Chief of Health Services, its Statewide Mental Health Supervisor, and two members of its Gender Identity Disorder (“GID”) Committee (GID is now clinically referred to as Gender Dysphoria). The case was assigned to Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel in the United States District Court for …
POLICING
Pottinger v. City of Miami

1:88-cv-02406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 1988

Closed Date: Oct. 1, 2020

This case partially predates PACER. Therefore, access to documents related to this case is limited. On 12/23/1988, the plaintiff, as representative of a class of homeless persons, filed this § 1983 lawsuit against the City of Miami in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs' complaint alleged that the City’s police department had “a custom, practice and policy of arresting, harassing and otherwise interfering with homeless people for engaging in basic activi…
CHILD WELFARE
Oglala Sioux Tribe v. Van Hunnik

5:13-cv-05020 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 21, 2013

Closed Date: Jan. 16, 2020

This case is about whether, despite the protections afforded by the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) to Native American families, officials in Pennington County, South Dakota removed Native American children from their homes without sufficient evidence or adequate hearings. On March 21, 2013, three native parents and the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe brought this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. They sued the Secretary of …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
O'Toole v. Cuomo & U.S. v. New York (formerly Disability Advocates Inc. (DAI) v. Pataki)

1:13-cv-04166 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 30, 2003

Case Ongoing

This Clearinghouse entry describes two closely entwined lawsuits: O'Toole v. Cuomo, U.S. v. New York, and Disability Advocates Inc. v. Pataki. On June 30, 2003, Disability Advocates, Inc. (DAI) filed a lawsuit on behalf of New York residents in large "adult homes," privately owned but state-funded facilities for individuals with mental illness or other disabilities, and on behalf of all individuals at risk of being institutionalized in adult homes. Plaintiffs filed their case in the U.S. Distr…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Doe v. Nebraska

8:09-cv-00456 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 2009

Closed Date: 2012

On December 16, 2009, several registered sex offenders residing in Nebraska brought suit against the State of Nebraska in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge the constitutionality of the Nebraska Sex Offender Registration Act. The state law banned individuals on the sex offender registry from accessing social media, criminalized their use of websites, and required consent to search. The plaintiffs claimed that this Act departed signi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Les Schwab Tire Centers

2:06-cv-00761 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 31, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

On May 31, 2006, two women brought suit against their former employer, Les Schwab Tire Centers of Washington, and other related corporations, alleging discrimination on the basis of their sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Washington Law Against Discrimination. The plaintiff's’ complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Western Washington (Judge Ricardo Martinez), alleged that the plaintiffs and a class of similarly situated individuals em…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Kentucky ARC v. Conn.

3:78-00157 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: May 16, 1977

Closed Date: 1983

On May 16, 1977 the Kentucky Association for Retarded Citizens and residents of Outwood, a residential treatment facility in rural Kentucky for persons with intellectual disabilities, filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky against the Secretary of the Kentucky Department for Human Resources, state officials, and others. Outwood was operated by defendant Excepticon, Inc., a private corporation under contract with the Department for …
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Krug v. Lutz

4:99-cv-00362 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: July 13, 1999

Closed Date: 2007

On July 13, 1999, a state prison inmate in Arizona, filed a pro se complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona under 42 U.S.C. §1983. The complaint alleged that state corrections officials violated the plaintiff's right to procedural due process by denying him his publications and failing to provide adequate medical care. Krug's claims of inadequate medical care were dismissed on January 6, 2000. Previously, in 1973, inmates in the Arizona state prison system and the Arizon…