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PRISON CONDITIONS
Ross v. Gossett

3:15-cv-00309 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 19, 2015

Case Ongoing

On March 19, 2015, an Illinois prisoner filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against numerous members of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) tactical team “Orange Crush,” the wardens at Illinois River, Menard, Big Muddy River, and Lawrence Correctional Centers, and other IDOC officials. The plaintiff, represented by Loevy & Loevy and the Uptown People's Law Center, sought injunctive relie…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Gulino v. New York City Board of Education

1:96-cv-08414 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 1996

Case Ongoing

On November 8, 1996, a group of Black and Latinx teachers in the New York City Public School System filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Board of Education of the New York City School District (Board) and the New York State Education Department (Department). This action was filed on behalf of themselves and all similarly situated Black and Latinx teachers in the system who were adversely affected by either of two allegedly …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Karsjens v. Minnesota Department of Human Services

0:11-cv-03659 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2011

Case Ongoing

On December 21, 2011, patients civilly committed to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program filed this lawsuit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The plaintiffs sued the Minnesota Department of Health & Human Services (DHS) and the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Seeking injunctive and monetary relief, the plaintiffs alleged violations of the Fourteenth, First, and Fourth Amendments. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that recent amendmen…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Related School Desegregation Cases in the Western District of Louisiana

[Many dockets; see defendants] | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: 1964

Case Ongoing

BackgroundFor several years after the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), school districts in Louisiana made little progress towards desegregation. But by the late 1960s, aggressive efforts were underway in federal courts in the state to challenge segregated public school systems. There was little uniformity in outcomes or remedies, but plaintiffs remained dissatisfied with the slow pace of progress. To increase uniformity and effectiveness, the Fifth Circuit…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Freitag v. Ayers

3:00-cv-02278 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 27, 2000

Closed Date: 2010

On June 27, 2000 a former female corrections officer at Pelican Bay State Prison filed a Title VII sexual harassment lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) and several Pelican Bay officials. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, alleging that the CDCR and Pelican Bay had failed to remedy the sexually hostile …
CHILD WELFARE
J.K. v. Eden

4:91-cv-00261 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 8, 1991

Closed Date: March 21, 2014

Representing the class of persons under age twenty-one who were eligible for behavioral health services through Medicaid's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) mandate, 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq., the Bazelon Center, Arizona Center for Disability Law, and National Center for Youth Law brought suit in 1991 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, against the state of Arizona.Both parties sought summary judgment, but in 1993, District Judge John Roll denied …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Oregon

3:86-cv-00961 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: July 28, 1986

Closed Date: 2000

On May 13, 1983, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) began in investigation pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. §1997 (CRIPA), into conditions at the Fairview Training Center in Salem, Oregon. The results of the investigation were detailed in a letter of the DOJ's findings, issued on March 19, 1986. The DOJ determined that the conditions at Fairview were unconstitutional and included:1. A lack of minimally adequate training for those residents in need of…