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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

Case Ongoing

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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ashker v. Brown

4:09-cv-05796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Closed Date: March 11, 2024

On December 9, 2009, two prisoners at California's Pelican Bay prison who had been kept in solitary confinement for decades filed this § 1983 action against the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, originally proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the "in…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Kennedy v. City of Zanesville

2:03-cv-01047 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2003

Closed Date: April 2, 2009

On November 19, 2003, a group of Black residents of the City of Zanesville, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and the Fair Housing Advocates Association filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the city of Zanesville ("City"), Washington Township ("Township"), Washington Township Trustees, and Muskingum County Commissioners ("County"). The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

5:51-cv-04316 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 1951

Closed Date: July 27, 1999

This is the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court announced in 1954 that segregated schools were inherently unequal, and in 1955 required school districts to desegregate "with all deliberate speed." It is the most famous civil rights case in American history. But it also had a specific set of plaintiffs -- schoolchildren in Topeka, Kansas -- and a specific history in its own community. This summary focuses on that history, rather than the broader setting and the Supreme Court jurisprudence. …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Casey v. Lewis

2:90-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 1990

Closed Date: May 22, 2000

This is a Section 1983 case brought in federal district court for the District of Arizona (Judge Roger Strand) by prisoners. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Prison Project of the ACLU, filed the class action complaint on January 12, 1990. The complaint named as plaintiffs all current and future adults, male and female, in the custody of the Arizona Department of Corrections. The defendants were officials of the Arizona Department of Corrections. The primary allegations of the co…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
La Union Del Pueblo Entero v. Abbott

5:21-cv-00844 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2021, Texas passed Senate Bill 1, which in part required clerks to reject mail-in ballot applications and completed mail-in ballots if they did not include a voter identification number that matched the identification number used on an individual’s original voter registration application. La Union del Pueblo Entero filed a lawsuit arguing that this portion of the bill violated the Civil Rights Act. On August 17, 2023, the judge struck …