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JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Columbus Consolidated City/County Government (Muscogee County)

4:99-cv-00132 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 1999

Closed Date: July 8, 2019

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Muscogee County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Muscogee County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, grievance system, exercise, access to reading materials, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, suicide prevention, general sanitation, fire safety, …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Tyler v. Percich

4:74-cv-00040 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 1974

Closed Date: 2000

On January 18, 1974, incarcerated people of the St. Louis City Jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against the City of St. Louis, its Department of Public Safety, and the St. Louis Sheriff. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri, sought injunctive relief, alleging that overcrowding at the St. Louis City Jail produced conditions which vi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Castillo v. Cameron County, TX

1:93-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 1993

Closed Date: 2002

In 1993, plaintiffs in Cameron County Jail brought a section 1983 class action suit against the county alleging that the overcrowded conditions in the jail amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. The district court for the Southern District of Texas (Judge John William Black) certified plaintiffs' class and allowed the county to implead the State of Texas as a third-party defendant because the state failed to transfer ""paper ready"" inmates to state correctional facilities. In 1994, the co…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Johnson & U.S. v. Florida

8:87-cv-00369 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: March 11, 1987

Closed Date: 2010

On March 11, 1987, mentally ill patients at G. Pierce Wood Memorial Hospital (GPW), filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Florida in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. The plaintiffs, represented by Florida Rural Legal Services, Advocacy Center, Southern Legal Counsel, the School Board of Manatee County, the Center for Public Representation, a public defender and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and inj…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Tennessee

2:96-cv-02312 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 15, 1996

On March 15, 1996, the United States filed a lawsuit under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, against the State of Tennessee, the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (DMH/MR) and the Memphis Mental Health Institute (MMHI), in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Memphis Division. The government asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants were depriving patients of MMHI of consti…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Richard S. v. Dept. of Developmental Services of California

8:97-cv-00219 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 20, 1997

Closed Date: 2005

On March 20, 1997, Richard S. filed a class-action lawsuit and an application for a temporary restraining order in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against the Department of Developmental Services for the State of California and Fairview Developmental Center. Richard S. was a resident of Fairview and was represented by a private attorney. William Cable, M.D. served as guardian ad litem for the class members, developmentally disabled clients without conserv…
POLICING
NAACP v. City of Carmel

1:97-cv-00104 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 1997

Closed Date: 2001

On January 23, 1997, the Indianapolis Chapter/NAACP and David Smith filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Carmel alleging racial profiling by its police department. Plaintiffs alleged that officers of the Carmel Police Department [CPD] had a policy, custom and/or practice of stopping vehicles because of the race of their drivers or occupants or because of the fact that the cars were from out…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harper v. Bennett

1:04-cv-01416 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 19, 2004

Closed Date: 2015

On May 19, 2004, inmates at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued Fulton County and the Georgia Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the conditions of their confinement under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The class action suit, brought on behalf of inmates who were currently or would be incarcerated in the future at the Fulton County Jail facilities in Atla…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Assembly of God Church Riverside v. Township of Riverside, New Jersey

1:06-cv-03842 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2007

Plaintiffs filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey to challenge the constitutionality of the Town of Riverside Ordinance 2006-16 ("Illegal Immigration Relief Act"), which forbid housing and employment of undocumented immigrants. Plaintiffs alleged that the Ordinance was an improper attempt by local government to enforce federal immigration laws in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and that it caused national origin discrimination in vio…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Georgia Public Defender Standards Council v. Freeman

1:05-cv-03286 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2005

On December 20, 2005, the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council filed suit in the Superior Court of Fulton County Georgia to prevent the Fulton County Sheriff, Myron Freeman, from transferring inmates from the Fulton County Jail to distant locations. The case was removed by Sheriff Freeman from state court to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on December 27, 2005. Upon removal, the Freeman case was consolidated with Harper v . Bennett, et al, No . 04-CV-1416-MHS (…