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PRISON CONDITIONS
Hines v. Anderson

4:73-cv-00387 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 1973

Closed Date: 2007

In August 1973, inmates at the Minnesota State Prison filed this class action lawsuit in the District of Minnesota against the Minnesota State Prison and all related officials. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and claimed that the medical care and facilities at the Minnesota State Prison were inadequate, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. In May 1977, the District Court (Judge Earl R. Larson) accepted a consent agreement reached by t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Milburn v. Coughlin

1:79-cv-05077 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 1979

On September 25, 1979, this class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs filed under 42 U.S.C. 1983 on behalf of all people who were or would be incarcerated at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, New York, against New York State, its Department of Correctional Services, Green Haven Correctional Facility, and their medical personnel. Represented by the Prisoners' Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society of New York, …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America and the Vulcan Society v. City of New York

1:07-cv-02067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 21, 2007

On May 21, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") sued the City of New York under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, seeking to enforce the right of Black and Hispanic candidates to be treated fairly in the application process for positions in the New York City Fire Department ("FDNY"). Specifically, the DOJ challenged the City's reliance on two written examinations that were used to appoint entry-level firefighters t…
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…
POLICING
Ligon v. City of New York

1:12-cv-02274 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 28, 2012

This is one of four ongoing cases challenging the constitutionality of the New York Police Department's "Stop and Frisk" program. See: Floyd v. City of New York; Daniels v. City of New York; and Davis v. City of New York. On March 28, 2012, twelve New York City residents and one former New York City resident filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the City of New York and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) on behalf of a class of similarl…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Al Otro Lado v. Kelly

3:17-cv-02366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: July 12, 2017

This case concerns the legality of the government’s treatment of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. On July 12, 2017, a group of Honduran and Mexican asylum seekers and Al Otro Lado, a legal service organization which supports indigent deportees, refugees, and migrants, filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The pseudonymous plaintiffs fled gang-related and/or severe domestic violence and presented themselves at a Port of Entry (PO…