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PRISON CONDITIONS
Valentine v. Collier

4:20-cv-01115 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

Closed Date: April 19, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action lawsuit brought by prisoners at a geriatric prison run by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The plaintiffs alleged violations of their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as violations of the ADA and Rehabilitation Act by failing to make reasonable accommodations to protect the plaintiffs from COVID-19. They won a district court order requiring compliance with CDC recommendations, but the Fifth Circuit vacated the preliminary injuncti…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Puente Arizona v. Arpaio

2:14-cv-01356 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 18, 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2018

On June 18, 2014, Puente Arizona, an immigrant advocacy organization, along with two undocumented workers from the state of Arizona and a minister, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the state of Arizona under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the ACLU of Arizona, the immigrant rights clinic of U.C. Irvine Law School, and the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive r…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Jones v. DeSantis

4:19-cv-00300 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 15, 2019

Case Ongoing

In the fall of 2018, Florida voters amended the Florida Constitution, restoring voting rights to most people convicted of felonies “upon completion of all terms of sentence, including parole or probation.” (This excluded people convicted of murder or sexual offenses.) On June 28, 2019, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7066 into law, defining “all terms of sentence” to include payment of all conviction-related restitution, fines, fees, and costs (“legal financial obligations”). People…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Monaco v. Stone

1:98-cv-03386 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 5, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2016

Background On May 5, 1998, inmates in the Suffolk County Jail in New York filed a putative class action complaint on behalf of all individuals with mental illnesses facing civil commitment in jails and state-run hospitals. The suit also contained some individual claims from an individual plaintiff who was confined in Suffolk County jail and claims from the Mental Disability Law Clinic of Touro Center. The named defendants were various state officials in New York, the New York State Office of M…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Miller & United States of America v. Board of Education of Gadsden

4:63-cv-00574 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 1963

Closed Date: 2005

This school desegregation case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on 11/18/1963 and ended in 2005. Brought by private plaintiffs and the United States, it dealt with the public schools in the city of Gadsden, Alabama.Note: Most of the following summary comes from the decision by Judge L. Scott Coogler declaring the case over and the schools "unitary" (a legal declaration that the school district is in compliance with the Equal Protection Clause's mandate …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lira v. Director of Corrections

3:00-cv-00905 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 2000

Closed Date: 2012

On March 14, 2000, an inmate in California corrections system (CDCR) filed this lawsuit in District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff sued the Secretary of CDCR in his official capacity and CDCR personnel in their individual capacities under 42 U.S.C § 1983. The plaintiff claimed prison officials violated his due process rights by incorrectly validating him as a gang member and placing him in administrative segregation (“Ad-Seg”) while at Deuel Vocational Institution,…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Amador v. Department of Correctional Services

1:03-cv-00650 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2003

Closed Date: 2015

On January 28, 2003, seventeen current and former female inmates at the New York State Department of Correctional Services filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against two classes of defendants pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs alleged that the prison correctional staff engaged in repeated acts of sexual abuse and harassment against female inmates in New York state prisons. These alleged acts ranged in severity from verbal harassm…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
Valdivia v. California Department of Health Services

2:90-cv-01226 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1990

Closed Date: March 16, 1999

On Oct. 1, 1990, two residents of California nursing homes filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California under the Medicaid Act against the California Department of Health Services. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state had failed to comply with the recently enacted federal nursing home reform law, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1395i-3(a)-(h) and 1396r(a)-(h). The plaintiffs also requested a preliminary injunctio…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
MORGAN v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA INC

4:94-cv-01184 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 17, 1994

On June 17, 1994, several black UPS center managers filed a lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (''Title VII''), and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 against UPS in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages as well as equitable relief, claiming that UPS had violated Title VII by discriminating against black salaried employees nationwide in the…