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PRISON CONDITIONS
Birowski v. Redman

12402 | Delaware state trial court

Filed Date: 1992

In the 1980s, a group of inmates in the Delaware prison system filed suit in the Court of Chancery of Delaware against prison officials. Apparently the complaint was of the failure to provide substance abuse treatment. According to an opinion in later proceedings, eventually plaintiffs obtained pro bono representation from several lawyers and were able to settle with an agreement to provide a substance abuse treatment plan for inmates who comply with the rules and regulations of the facility.…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bates v. Lynn

3:89-cv-00065 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 1989

Closed Date: 2000

On January 25, 1989, death row inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola (LSP) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Louisiana Department of Corrections (LDOC) and LSP in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, Loyola Law School and the ACLU National Prison Project, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging violations of their Sixth and Fourtee…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hadix v. Johnson

2:80-cv-73581 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 1980

Closed Date: Nov. 15, 2000

NOTE: There are two separate cases, in two separate districts, under the caption Hadix. This summary and documents are for the Eastern District of Michigan case, 2:80-cv-73581-JF, filed in 1980. As explained below, in 1992, the Eastern District judge, John Feikens, split that case in two, and sent part of it (the part relating to medical and mental health care, and eventually fire safety) to the Western District, where it received the docket number 4:92-CV-110.  On September 18, 1980, prisoners…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Doyle v. Allegheny County Salary Board

GD-96-13606 | Pennsylvania state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 1996

Closed Date: 2005

On September 18, 1996, the National and Pittsburgh chapters of the ACLU in conjunction with a private attorney, filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 class-action lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The suit was filed on behalf of three named indigent defendants who sought to represent all present and future indigent criminal defendants in the jurisdiction. Named defendants included the Allegheny County Salary Board, three County Commissioners, and the Chief Public Defende…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Rivera v. Rowland

95-cv-545929 | Connecticut state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 5, 1995

Closed Date: 1999

On January 5, 1995, a group of indigent criminal defendants filed a class action lawsuit against the State of Connecticut and its Public Defender Services Commission under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, the state constitution, and a state statute (C.G.S. 51-289 et seq.), in the Superior Court of Connecticut, Judicial District of Hartford-New Britain, at Hartford. The plaintiffs alleged that the State did not provide minimally adequate legal representation to indigent de…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Cervantez v. Whitfield

2:79-cv-00206 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 1979

On December 12, 1979, Pedro Cervantez and Juan Lozano filed suit in the United States District Court of the Northern District of Texas, challenging their arrest, detention and interrogation for suspected violations of immigration law by local and state law enforcement officers and federal border patrol agents. Defendants included the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS"), the Texas Department of Public Safety ("DPS"), and the Deaf Smith County Sheriff's Department and individuals offi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Turkmen v. Ashcroft

1:02-cv-02307 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 17, 2002

Turkmen v. Ashcroft, also known as Ziglar v. Abbasi, is one of two related actions filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York by plaintiffs who were investigated and detained for suspected terrorist ties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. It was filed on April 17, 2002 as a class-action lawsuit, but the class was never certified. The case was assigned to Judge John Gleeson. (The related case, Elmaghraby v. Ashcroft (later Ashcroft v. Iqbal), was also assigned to Judge …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Hawkins v. Compartet-Cassani

2:98-cv-05605 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 13, 1998

Closed Date: 2002

On July 13, 1998, a person who was a convicted burglar filed a civil complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He was represented by private counsel and later aided by amicus counsel who appeared in the case on behalf of Amnesty International. The plaintiff alleged that his Fourth and Eighth Amendment constitutional rights were violated when the defendants (the state court judge, Los Angeles County, and associated officials respo…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Best v. Grant County

04-00189 | Washington state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2004

Closed Date: 2013

On December 21, 2004, three indigent criminal defendants with felony cases pending in the Grant County, Washington Superior Court, along with an individual taxpaying resident of Grant County, filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the Superior Court of Kittitas County, challenging the constitutionality of the public defense system in Grant County. Plaintiffs claimed that Grant County: (1) failed to establish a public defense system that provided effective assistance of co…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Stinson v. Fulton County

1:94-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1994

Closed Date: 2005

On January 28, 1994, a man incarcerated at the Fulton County Jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Fulton County public defender program, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff, represented by court-appointed counsel and attorneys from the Southern Center for Human Rights, sought declaratory and injunctive relief from violations of his rights as secured by the Sixth Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, the Due Process Clau…