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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Scott v. Tom Schedler

2:11-cv-00926 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 19, 2011

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2013

This is a case about voting access for individuals who registered through public assistance agencies in Louisiana.  On April 19, 2011, a Louisiana voter and the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP brought this action for injunctive relief under the National Voter Registration Act against the Defendants Louisiana Secretary of State, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, and the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services. The plaintiffs alleged that Defendants engaged in sys…
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

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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Ligas v. Maram [now Ligas v. Hamos]

1:05-cv-04331 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 28, 2005

On July 28, 2005, nine individuals with developmental disabilities filed this lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Illinois Department of Public Health in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. They alleged that they were eligible for long-term care through state-administered Medicaid Services but were forced to reside in large congregate care institutions rather than commun…
CHILD WELFARE
B.H. v. Johnson

1:88-cv-05599 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 1988

The ACLU filed this class action lawsuit in 1988 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the state of Illinois, on behalf of all children in the custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) placed somewhere other than with their parents. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Adoption Assistance Welfare Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 620-28, 670-76. The class consisted of all children who had been or would be in the custody of DCFS, a…
EDUCATION
D.L. v. District of Columbia

1:05-cv-01437 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 21, 2005

The named plaintiffs, former preschool-aged children with various disabilities, filed this lawsuit against the District of Columbia in July 2005 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs alleged that the District had engaged in a pattern and practice of failing to provide special education and related services to them and other children, in violation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA"), 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabili…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Huffman v. New Prime, Inc.

6:01-cv-03144 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 29, 2001

Closed Date: July 6, 2004

A private plaintiff brought this case against New Prime, Inc., a trucking company, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri in March 2001. The case was consolidated with a suit brought by the EEOC in August 2001. Two other complainants intervened in this case. The defendant filed several motions to dismiss, which were denied. The defendant also filed several partial motions for judgment on the pleadings, one of which was granted. The defendant also filed several motions f…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe v. Younger

2:91-cv-00187 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1991

Closed Date: 1999

On November 21, 1991, juveniles confined in the Kenton County Detention Center filed a class action lawsuit against Kenton County and the Commonwealth of Kentucky pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Juvenile Justice Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5601 et seq., and applicable Kentucky constitutional provisions and statutes. Plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and were represented by the Children's Law Center, Inc., Youth Law Center, and Norther…
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

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 pancuronium…