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PRISON CONDITIONS
Plata v. Newsom

4:01-cv-01351 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2001

NOTE: Documents relating to the prison overcrowding proceedings in this case under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which led to imposition of a statewide prison population cap, affirmed by the Supreme Court, are presented in a different case record. See "related cases" below. Summary: On April 5, 2001, nine male California incarcerated persons filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, against officials of the California Department of C…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Inmates of Occoquan v. Barry

1:86-cv-02128 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1986

On August 4, 1986, the prisoners at the Occoquan Facilites of the District of Columbia's Lorton Correctional Complex filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the District of Columbia government officials responsible for these medium security facilities in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that overcrowding at the facility violated their Eighth Amendment rights, and that the District of Columbia repeatedly fai…
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…
CHILD WELFARE
Jeanine B. v. Doyle

2:93-cv-00547 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: June 1, 1993

On June 1, 1993, Children's Rights, the ACLU, and private co-counsel filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin against the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services and the Milwaukee County Department of Human Services. The complaint alleged abuse and neglect of children in the Milwaukee child-welfare system, inadequate investigations into abuse and neglect, lack of services, improper foster care placement, and high casewo…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Escobar v. Gaines

3:11-cv-00994 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 26, 2022

This is a case about a large-scale immigration and law enforcement raid on a predominantly Latino apartment complex in Nashville, Tennessee, that occurred on October 20, 2010. The plaintiffs were 15 individuals who were victims of the raid and residents of the apartment complex, the Clairmont. The plaintiffs brought this action nearly one year later on October 19, 2011, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee to remedy violations of their Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Am…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
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

(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 …