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CHILD WELFARE
David B. v. McDonald

1:79-cv-01662 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 25, 1979

Closed Date: 1998

On April 25, 1979, a class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, on behalf of a class of children in Cook County, Illinois, who were either wards of the juvenile court or had petitions for wardship pending, and had emotional, physical, or mental disabilities. The plaintiffs represented by the Cook County Public Guardian alleged that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCSF), the Illinois Department of Mental Health and D…
CHILD WELFARE
Marisol A. v. Giuliani

1:95-cv-10533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1995

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2018

This federal class action was brought by children in the custody of the New York City Child Welfare Administration ("CWA"), and children who, while not in the custody of CWA, are or will be at risk of abuse or neglect and whose status is known or should be known to CWA. It was filed on December 13, 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights Inc., Lawyers for Children, and private counsel, sought class certification, …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Allen v. Henderson

Docket No. Not Available | Arizona state trial court

Filed Date: 1984

In approximately 1984, a child incarcerated at a jail of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, filed a lawsuit against the Division of Public Safety of the Navajo Tribe. In a Consent Decree filed in the District Court of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, dated January 28, 1985, the court enjoined the Tribe from incarcerating juveniles under age 18 in jails where adults were housed. The Decree further required the defendants to submit a plan for a juvenile detention facility to t…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Jerry M. v. District of Columbia

1519-85 | District of Columbia state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 1985

On March 1, 1985, a class of juveniles confined at juvenile detention centers operated by the District of Columbia ("the District") filed a lawsuit against the District under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. They alleged unconstitutional conditions of confinement in violation of the juveniles' Fifth and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiffs specifically challenged the conditions of confinement at Cedar Knoll Youth Center and Oak Hill Youth Center, both in Laure…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Baker v. Hamilton

72-cv-07148 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 1972

Closed Date: April 25, 1972

Edward and Darlene Baker filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on behalf of their seventeen-year-old son Glenn, who was placed in the Jefferson County Jail by the Juvenile Court, and on behalf of other youths incarcerated there. They alleged that placement of juveniles in the county jail constituted a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment because it treated the juveniles as adults for punitive purposes without allowi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Daviess County (KY)

NA | No Court

On March 24, 1997, the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation on the Daviess County Detention Center in Owensboro, Kentucky (Center), pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. §1997 et seq. The DOJ sent notice to Judge-Executive Buzz Norris of the Daviess County Fiscal Court at that time. An additional notice letter dated June 19, 1997, expanded the investigation to cover not only the main jail, but three other related facilities--the E. Rober…
JAIL CONDITIONS
L.Z. v. Parrish

6:77-cv-03277 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 28, 1977

Closed Date: 1984

A complaint was filed against various state and county judges and officials in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri challenging the incarceration of a juvenile in the Laclede County Jail in Lebanon, Missouri. Evidence established that a new juvenile detention facility had been built, that juveniles were no longer kept in Laclede County Jail, and that the Missouri Supreme Court had amended the challenged rules regarding juvenile detention and detention hearings.…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
CRIPA Investigation-Central Alabama Youth Services

No Court Case | No Court

On August 6, 1992, the United States Justice Department issued the findings of its investigation conducted at the Central Alabama Youth Services Facility (CAYS) pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The investigation revealed several conditions at CAYS that amounted to constitutional violations. Disciplinary practices at the facility, including the use of mace and mechanical restraints, violated the juvenile detainees' constitutional rights. …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Bd. of Managers of the Arkansas Training School for Boys v. George

Docket No. Not Available | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: 1967

Closed Date: Oct. 9, 1967

Sometime before May 23, 1967, an African-American juvenile and his mother filed a class action suit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983 in the U.S. District Court for Arkansas against the Board of Managers for the Arkansas Training Schools for Boys and the juvenile court judges who assigned or sentenced juveniles to the training schools. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, sought injunctive relief, alleging that the maintenance of segregated juvenile …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Anthony C. v. Pima County

4:82-cv-00501 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 1982

On August 10, 1982, detainees in the Pima County Juvenile Detention Center in Tucson filed this class action lawsuit, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against Pima County. The plaintiffs sued Pima County, the Juvenile Division of the Superior Court of Pima County, the Pima County Court Center, Pima County Detentional Center, and Pima County Board of Supervisors under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 28 U.S.C. § § 2201 and 2202, 20 U…