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JAIL CONDITIONS
Cottone v. Jenne

0:00-cv-07545 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2000

Closed Date: July 20, 2006

Plaintiff, a personal representative for his son, sued numerous defendants associated with the Broward County Detention Center in Florida after his son, a pretrial detainee, died at the hands of a mentally ill co-inmate. The detention center was subject to a consent decree from Carruthers v. Cochran (JC-FL-008) that required the jail to institute a system of classification, separation, and monitoring of inmates. In 2002, the district court for the Southern District of Florida (Judge William J…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Armstrong v. Metropolitan Gov. of Nashville and Davidson County

3:87-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 31, 1987

Closed Date: 2002

On March 31, 1987, inmates and pretrial detainees being held at the jails in Davidson County, Tennessee filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Tennessee Department of Corrections and the Metropolitan Government of the City of Nashville in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs, represented by the Vanderbilt University Legal Clinic, alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by conditions at the jail, including overcrowd…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Brown v. Esmor Correctional Services, Inc.

2:98-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 20, 1998

Closed Date: 2007

This class action lawsuit was originally filed on March 6, 1996 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York on behalf of undocumented aliens who were detained at a facility that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (''INS'') maintained in Elizabeth, New Jersey pending a determination of their asylum status. The facility was operated by a private corporation, Esmor Correctional Services, Inc. Plaintiffs alleged that during their detention they were subjected to torture, beatings, harass…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Americans United for Separation of Church and State v. Prison Fellowship Ministries

4:03-cv-90074 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2003

Closed Date: 2008

On February 12, 2003, a separation-of-church-and-state advocacy group and state prisoners sued the State of Iowa, Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC) officials, and certain vendors ("InnerChange" and "Prison Fellowship"), claiming violations of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause and the equivalent provision of the Iowa state constitution. The plaintiffs challenged a contract that provided for payments to vendor organizations for pre-release rehabilitation services at the DOC's Newton f…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Pugh

1:02-cv-01239 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 28, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

In this prison conditions case brought in 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, a federal prisoner in the U.S. Bureau of Prison's (BOP) Florence, Colorado Administrative Maximum (ADX) Detention Unit, claimed violation of First Amendment rights in his pro se federal tort claim against BOP officials. The defendants administered 28 C.F.R. 540.20, a BOP prison regulation restricting inmates from publishing articles under their bylines. The plaintiff, represented by the Univ…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Apsley v. Boeing Co.

6:05-cv-01368 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2005

Closed Date: 2015

On December 19, 2005, former employees of the Boeing Company filed this class action in the United States District Court of Kansas against Boeing, Spirit Aerosystems Inc., the Onex Corporation, and Midwestern Aircraft. The employees alleged violations of various laws during the layoff and rehire process that took place in connection with Boeing's sale of its commercial airplane manufacturing facilities to Onex. In 2005, Boeing sold its Wichita and Oklahoma facilities to Onex, which created Spir…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lane v. Kitzhaber (later, Brown)

3:12-cv-00138 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2022

On January 25, 2012, this class action was brought by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs claimed that the State of Oregon and its Offices of Developmental Disability Services and Vocational Rehabilitation Services, along with other state agencies, violated the Americans With Disabilities Act ("ADA") and the Reha…
CHILD WELFARE
Henry A. v. Willden

2:10-cv-00528 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 13, 2010

Closed Date: 2015

On April 13, 2010, a group of children in foster care in Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. The plaintiffs sued the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, the Nevada Division of Child and Family Services, Clark County, and lark County Department of Family Services under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. (Previously, NCYL had filed a similar suit on behalf of another group of children, Clark K. v. Willden, in August 2…
POLICING
Vasquez v. Rackaukas

8:09-cv-01090 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2009

Closed Date: 2015

On September 23, 2009, Orange County residents named as defendants in a public nuisance abatement action targeting the Orange Varrio Cypress Criminal Street Gang (OVC) filed this lawsuit against Orange County in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Proceeding under 28 U.S.C. §1983, 28 U.S.C. § 2241, and state law, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Southern California, sought declaratory and injunctive relief and petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. Th…