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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education

3:65-cv-01974 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 1965

Closed Date: April 15, 2002

This summary seeks to describe how the Swann litigation influenced the desegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS). For a more thorough analysis of this litigation and policy challenge through the present day, see Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte (Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, et al. eds. 2015). For a complete discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Swann, see Bernard Schwartz, Swann's Way: The School Busing Case and the Supreme Court …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Morales v. Hickman

3:06-cv-00219 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2006

Case Ongoing

On January 11, 2006, several inmates at the state prison at San Quentin filed lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, all of whom were scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, alleged that their constitutional rights were threatened, arguing that lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment that violated the Eighth Amendment. They further argued that pancuroni…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Knight v. Thompson

2:93-cv-01404 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 1993

Closed Date: 2016

On November 24, 1993, inmates who adhered to Native American religion filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs challenged the Alabama Department of Correction's (DOC) policies restricting Native American religious practices, including religious objects, ceremonial grounds, hair length, and sweat lodge ceremonies. The plaintiffs alleged that their First Amendment rights and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act were violated by the DOC's polic…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Perez v. Tilton

3:05-cv-05241 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2005

Closed Date: 2013

On December 19, 2005, a California state prisoner filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff sought injunctive relief on behalf of himself and other prisoners for alleged unconstitutional conditions with respect to dental care provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ("CDCR"). The plaintiffs were represented by attorneys of the Prison Law Office in California. This case stem…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Osterback v. Moore

1:97-cv-02806 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 1997

Closed Date: March 25, 2008

Plaintiffs, prisoners in various Florida state prisons, brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) officials operating the prisons on October 28, 1997. In the allegations in the second amended complaint, their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case alleged that prisoners housed in "Close Management" (CM) status in these prisons suffered cruel and unusual punishment in violation of their Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiffs, seeki…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Parrott v. Ray

4:78-cv-00174 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: June 9, 1978

Closed Date: 1998

On June 9, 1978, a class action lawsuit was filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Iowa in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The plaintiffs were represented by the University of Iowa Legal Clinic, and the U.S. Attorney's Office were intervenors in the case. We have no information on the decree that was originally entered in the case.On July 7, 1993, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa (Judge Harold Vietor) denied the plaintif…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Beckford v. Florida Department of Corrections

2:06-cv-14324 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2006

Closed Date: May 7, 2010

Beckford and 13 other female former employees worked at Martin Correctional Institution (located in Indiantown, Florida) between 1999 and 2002. Most of the women worked as nurses, one worked as a physician, and another worked as a classification officer. Each of the female employees worked in the "close management" housing dorms at Martin. The nurses entered the close management dorms each day to pass medication toinmates, answer sick calls, and respond to medical emergencies. The other for…