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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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Coleman v. Brown

2:90-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 1990

NOTE: All the documents in this case relating to the prison overcrowding proceedings, which led to imposition of a statewide prison population cap, affirmed by the Supreme Court, are presented in a related case record, Plata v. Newsom. On April 23, 1990, incarcerated persons with mental illnesses in California state prisons filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs sued California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitatio…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Plata v. Brown (Newsom) / Coleman v. Brown Three-Judge Court

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

Filed Date: April 5, 2001

SCOPE:  This is a separate case record for the proceedings before the three-judge district court in Plata v. Brown (N.D. Cal.) and Coleman v. Brown (E.D. Cal.).  At its start, that court included Judge Thelton Henderson (from Plata), Judge Lawrence Karlton (from Coleman), and Judge Stephen Reinhardt (Ninth Circuit). After Judges Karlton and Henderson took inactive status from the bench, they were replaced by Judges Kimberly J. Mueller and Jon S. Tigar, respectively.  Judge Reinhardt was replace…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pierce v. Orange County

8:01-cv-00981 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2001

Closed Date: 2014

On October 18, 2001, pretrial detainees represented by attorney Barry Litt initiated a class action suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Orange County Jail (the "Jail"). Plaintiffs alleged that they were detained for unreasonable periods of time following the order for their release, denied rights under Stewart v. Gates (e.g., holding cell seats, outdoor exercise, dayroom and phon…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Valdivia v. Davis

2:94-cv-00671 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 2, 1994

Closed Date: July 2, 2013

On May 2, 1994, a group of California parolees filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of California. Specifically, plaintiffs challenged California's parole revocation procedures under the Fourteenth Amendment and alleged that the state violated their due process rights. On December 1, 1994, the Court (Honorable Lawrence K. Karlton) certified a class defined as California parolees (1) who are at lar…