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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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hallett v. Payne

3:93-cv-05496 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 1993

Closed Date: 2004

On August 31, 1993, inmates at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the facility's health care manager and superintendent alleging that healthcare in the prison violated the Eighth Amendment. Plaintiffs were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, Columbia Legal Services, the Public Interest Law Group, and the ACLU's Natio…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Young v. County of Cook

1:06-cv-00552 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2006

Closed Date: 2016

On January 30, 2006, on behalf of a female and a male plaintiff, the Chicago civil rights law firm Loevy & Loevy filed this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The complaint challenged the Cook County Sheriff's blanket policy of requiring a strip and body cavity search of every detainee who entered the Cook County Jail for booking/intake, irrespective of the nature of the charge against the detainee and of whether there…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education

3:65-cv-01974 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 1965

Closed Date: April 15, 2002

This summary seeks to describe how the Swann litigation influenced the desegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS). For a more thorough analysis of this litigation and policy challenge through the present day, see Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte (Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, et al. eds. 2015). For a complete discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Swann, see Bernard Schwartz, Swann's Way: The School Busing Case and the Supreme Court …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Knight v. Thompson

2:93-cv-01404 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 1993

Closed Date: 2016

On November 24, 1993, inmates who adhered to Native American religion filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs challenged the Alabama Department of Correction's (DOC) policies restricting Native American religious practices, including religious objects, ceremonial grounds, hair length, and sweat lodge ceremonies. The plaintiffs alleged that their First Amendment rights and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act were violated by the DOC's polici…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Muhtorov

1:12-cr-00033 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2012

Closed Date: Oct. 3, 2022

Introduction & Importance of this Case In early 2012, the federal government initiated criminal prosecution of Jamshid Muhtorov (January 19) and Bakhityor Jumaev (March 14) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Both defendants were charged with providing, conspiring to provide, and attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, in violation of Title 18, U.S.C. § 2339B. Defendants were represented by the Federal Public Defender (Muhto…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gumm v. Jacobs

5:15-cv-00041 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2015

Closed Date: May 7, 2021

On February 12, 2015, a prisoner in the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (GDCP) filed this lawsuit, pro se, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Georgia. The plaintiff sued Georgia prison officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that by holding him in solitary confinement for five years in poor conditions they had violated his Fourteenth Amendment rights to procedural and substantive due process as well as state regulations. He sought injunctive relief enjoining…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Doe v. State of Ohio

2:91-cv-00464 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 10, 1991

This is a case about special education in Ohio's public schools. This lawsuit was brought on May 9, 1991, by a student (through his parent), a teacher, a local Board of Education, and a district superintendent. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and later by the Ohio Legal Rights Service, sued the state of Ohio, the State Board of Education, the state superintendent, and the state Department of Education. The plaintiffs sued under state constitutional and statutory law, 42 U.S.C. § …