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PRISON CONDITIONS
Merritt v. Faulkner

3:80-00207 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: July 7, 1980

On July 7, 1980, an inmate at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against prison officials in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The plaintiff, represented at first by himself and then by court appointed counsel, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive and compensatory relief, as well as punitive damages, alleging that the prison officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights when they exercised deliberate in…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
U.S. v. California

2:06-cv-02667 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 2, 2006

Closed Date: 2013

On May 2, 2006, the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against California and state officials responsible for operation of two California mental hospitals: the Metropolitan State Hospital and the Napa State Hospital. The United States sued under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C § 12101. The U…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Santa Fe County

1:08-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2008

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2009

In March of 2002, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, acting pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq., commenced an investigation into the confinement conditions at the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Center (SFCADC) in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Based on its investigation, the DOJ concluded that the conditions and practices at the Detention Center violated the constitutional rights of convicted inmates and pre-trial deta…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Montez v. Owens

1:92-cv-00870 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 5, 1992

Closed Date: May 15, 2018

This federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, in 1992, by six incarcerated individuals with disabilities who alleged that Colorado's prisons did not comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In 1996, the case became certified as a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all incarcerated individuals with disabilities.In 2003, the state Department of Corrections agreed in a multimillion-dollar settle…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cobbs v. Pramstaller

1:07-cv-14644 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 2007

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2012

On October 30, 2007, a state prison inmate filed a §1983 lawsuit against the Chief Medical Officer of the Michigan Department of Corrections' Bureau of Health Care Services and three unnamed individual members of the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC). The plaintiff, who originally filed pro se but was later represented by the University of Michigan Law School General Clinic, sought declarative, monetary, and injunctive relief, claiming that the defendants acted with deliberate indiffe…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jensen v. Thornell

2:12-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 22, 2012

This case is a direct descendant of Gamez v. Ryan, which was dismissed with prejudice on March 21, 2012. The district court judge determined that the sudden expansion of the case to include thirteen new plaintiffs and class treatment in the third amended complaint was not within the court's contemplation when it permitted the plaintiff to file a third amended complaint. On March 22, 2012, fourteen Arizona prisoners brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Dockery v. Epps

3:13-cv-00326 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: May 30, 2013

On May 30, 2013, prisoners in the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Mississippi Department of Corrections commissioner, deputy commissioner, and chief medical officer in their official capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the ACLU National Prison Project and the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked the court for declar…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hernandez v. County of Monterey

5:13-cv-02354 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 23, 2013

On May 23, 2013, prisoners and recently released prisoners from Monterey County Jail filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Monterey and the California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, the ACLU National Prison Project, the Monterey Public Defender, and private attorneys…

Civil Class Action Complaint [For Declaratory and Injunctive Relief]

Hernandez v. County of Monterey

May 23, 2013

Stipulation and [Proposed] Order

Hernandez v. County of Monterey

Jan. 14, 2014

Second Amended Civil Class Action Complaint [For Declaratory And Injunctive Relief]

Hernandez v. County of Monterey

April 11, 2014

NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION OF DEFENDANTS COUNTY OF MONTEREY AND MONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE TO DISMISS PLAINTIFFS, ROBERT YANCEY, RICHARD MURPHY, DENNIS GUYOT, GLENDA HUNTER, MARTHA GOMEZ, WESLEY MILLER, JEFFREY NICHOLS, SARAB SARABI, and ALBER

Hernandez v. County of Monterey

April 25, 2014

DEFENDANT CALIFORNIA FORENSIC MEDICAL GROUP, INC.’S MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFFS’ SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT

Hernandez v. County of Monterey

May 2, 2014

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CHILD WELFARE
31 Foster Children v. Bush

1:00-cv-02116 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 13, 2000

Closed Date: 2003

On June 13, 2000, thirty-one minor children in the legal custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families ("DCAF") filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. The named plaintiffs were represented by the advocacy organization Children's Rights and by private counsel. Plaintiffs sought certification of a class of all children who are or will be in the legal custody of DCAF as an all…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hollihan v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

3:15-cv-00005 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 2, 2015

Closed Date: March 21, 2020

On January 2, 2015, a prisoner in Pennsylvania sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ("PDOC"), several of its employees and administrators in their official and individual capacities, as well as Wexford Health Sources (the provider of medical care in state prisons), in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit was brought under the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for the alleged deprivation of t…