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JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Sheriff [USDOJ CRIPA Case]

2:15-cv-05903 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2015

On June 6, 1996, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Los Angeles County that it intended to investigate conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail system (the Jails) pursuant to the Civil Rights of the Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In August of 1996, the DOJ toured the Jails with correctional mental health experts. The investigation found that the Jails were failing to provide care meeting constitutional standards to mentally ill inmates. On September 5, 1997, the DOJ…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Foe v. Cuomo

1:75-cv-01029 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 27, 1975

Closed Date: 1988

On June 27, 1975, involuntarily committed mental patients at the Brooklyn State Hospital (since renamed the Kingsboro Psychiatric Center) in New York filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of New York in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs asked the district court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding, inadequate staffing, poor physical facilities…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Conn. ARC v. Thorne

2:78-cv-00653 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 1978

Closed Date: 1998

In December 1978, the Connecticut Association of Retarded Citizens and twelve individuals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. They sued the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation (DMR), the Department of Income Maintenance (DIM) and the Department of Health Services (DHS) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The class action lawsuit challenged the quality of care, living conditions, and residential placement of individuals with intellectual d…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
S.H. v. Edwards

1:81-cv-00877 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 11, 1981

Closed Date: 1993

On May 11, 1981, two residents of the Gracewood State School and Hospital filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794), and state law against the state of Georgia in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs, represented by Georgia Legal Services and the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, and alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated because they had been denied access to due process hearing procedures…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Kentucky ARC v. Conn.

3:78-00157 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: May 16, 1977

Closed Date: 1983

On May 16, 1977 the Kentucky Association for Retarded Citizens and residents of Outwood, a residential treatment facility in rural Kentucky for persons with intellectual disabilities, filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky against the Secretary of the Kentucky Department for Human Resources, state officials, and others. Outwood was operated by defendant Excepticon, Inc., a private corporation under contract with the Department for …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Maryland

1:85-00227 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 1985

Closed Date: 1992

On November 7, 1980, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated an investigation into the conditions at the Rosewood Center in Owings Mill, Maryland, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1997, the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). On February 19, 1982, after the investigation, the DOJ issued a findings letter detailing the conditions that they believed to be unconstitutional. They found inadequacies in the areas of programming, staffing, abuse and neglect, environmental conditions…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Solomon

1:74-cv-00181 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 1974

Closed Date: 1977

On February 21, 1974, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiff asked the district court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants had violated the constitutional rights of patients at the Rosewood State Hospital (RSH) in Owings Mill, Maryland. RSH was a facility where citizens with intellectual disabilities were confined for the pu…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Wuori v. Concannon

1:75-cv-00080 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: July 3, 1975

On July 3, 1975, seven residents of Pineland Center, a state institution for individuals with mental disabilities, filed this putativeclass action lawsuit in the Southern District of Maine on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated—a class defined as “all present and future residents of Pineland whose needs for care, education, training and therapy in a humane and healthful physical and psychological environment are unmet.” The plaintiffs sued the Pineland Center under 42 U.S.C. 198…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Kope v. Watkins

88-61424 | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 27, 1988

On April 27, 1988, persons with intellectual disabilities residing at Greenbrook Manor in Monroe, Michigan, the Kalamazoo Total Living Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Mt. Pleasant Total Living Center in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, the Taylor Total Living Center in Taylor, Michigan, and the Wayne Total Living Center in Wayne, Michigan, filed a class action lawsuit under the Michigan State Constitution and under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Michigan Department of Mental Health (MDMH) in the Michig…