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CHILD WELFARE
David C. v. Leavitt

2:93-cv-00206 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 1993

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2008

This lawsuit was filed by the National Center of Youth Law on February 2, 1993, against the Utah Department of Human Services (DHS), in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The class action complaint named as the plaintiff class all children in the custody of DHS, whether in a shelter care facility, foster family home, group home, or institutional care; and all children who known to DHS by virtue of a report of child abuse. It addressed systemic issues encompassing the shortfalls …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Valentine v. Englehardt

2:78-cv-00270 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1978

Closed Date: July 21, 1980

In February 1978, seven pre-trial detainees at the Passaic County Jail in New Jersey filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the county in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs, represented by the Office of Inmate Advocacy at the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by numerous conditions at the jail.…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Marcera v. Chinlund

1:76-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1976

On November 15, 1976, pretrial detainees in the Monroe County Jail in New York filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New York Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by the Public Interest Law Center of Rochester, New York, alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated because they had been denied contact visits while incarcerated at the jails, and they asked the court for declaratory and i…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Thomas v. Mears

4:73-00026 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 1973

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 1980

In approximately 1973, juvenile offenders, represented by Central Arkansas Legal Services and private counsel, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Arkansas against Pulaski County officials challenging procedures employed with juvenile offenders. While we do not have a copy of the complaint, on August 13, 1979, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (Judge Thomas Eisele) approved a consent decree between the parties. Thomas …
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…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Robbins v. Glenn Co.

2:85-00675 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 14, 1985

On May 14, 1985, Lillian Robbins (administratrix of the estate of Kathy Robbins, deceased) filed a lawsuit against Glenn County, California. under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiff, represented by the Youth Law Center, alleged that the civil rights of 15 year-old runaway Kathy Robbins had been violated during her detention at the Glenn County Jail because the jail administrators had refused to contact her family, subjected her to …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Shaw v. San Francisco

915763 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1990

Closed Date: 1999

On February 8, 1990, Ronayne and Michael Shaw filed a lawsuit against San Francisco County under the California State Constitution, the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and 20 U.S.C. § 1401 (the Education of the Handicapped Act) in the San Francisco County Superior Court. They alleged that conditions at the county's juvenile detention facility, where one of their children had recently been confined, were deficient in the areas of facility maintenance, fire safety, fail…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Inmates of Judge John J. Connelly Youth Center v. Dukakis

1:75-01786 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 6, 1975

Closed Date: April 2, 1976

In 1975, juveniles in custody of the Department of Youth Services (DYS) at the Judge J. Connelly Youth Center (Roslindale) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Governor of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief from allegedly unconstitutional conditions at Roslindale. The Juvenile Court Advocacy Program, and the Massachusetts Defenders Committee represented the plaintiffs. After pretrial conferences…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Melvin C. v. Shilling

1:91-cv-00497 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 1991

Closed Date: 1995

On February 22, 1991, Melvin C., an indigent minor in a Maryland Correctional Facility, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Plaintiff, along with 3 others, brought suit in forma paupris on behalf of themselves and all those similarly situated, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Department of Education and the Department of Corrections for failure to provide special education and related service…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Messier v. Southbury Training School

3:94-cv-01706 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1994

Closed Date: March 13, 2019

On October 4, 1994, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against Connecticut's Departments of Mental Retardation (DMR), Social Services (DSS), and Public Health (DPH) and Southbury Training School, an intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/MR) in Southbury, Connecticut. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought injunctive relief on behalf of both current and future Southbury residents.…