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PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Case Ongoing

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the organization that represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record -- over 2100 documents, all told. About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show more" you'll see about 800 more.  Anothe…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. HUD [Weaver, Romney, Hills, etc.]

01:66-cv-01460 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Closed Date: Aug. 26, 1997

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the organization that represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record -- over 2100 documents, all told. A handful "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show more" you'll see several dozen more. Hun…
JAIL CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Ray v. Madison Co., et al

1:20-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2020

Closed Date: June 23, 2021

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JAIL CONDITIONS
Fluhr v. Roberts

3:77-00332 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: July 20, 1977

A prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Kentucky filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, alleging that the county had unconstitutionally failed to provide access to legal research materials. The defendants agreed to make some legal library resources available at the jail, and the court (Judge Thomas Ballantine) found that to be sufficient, holding that since the average stay at the jail was only a week, the jail was not require…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Price v. Jefferson County

3:91-cv-00144 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 7, 1991

Closed Date: 2001

Inmates at the Jefferson County Corrections Department, represented by private attorneys, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on March 7, 1991, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, alleging that they were strip-searched by county corrections officials in violation of the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiffs alleged that the Department of Corrections maintained an unconstitutional blanket policy to strip-search all arrestees regardless of …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Webre v. Wilson

2:94-cv-03494 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 1994

Closed Date: 1995

On September 8, 1982, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, Lafourche Parish Sheriff Duffy Breaux and Lafourche Parish entered into a consent decree regarding the conditions of the parish jail. When Sheriff Webre replaced Sheriff Breaux in July 1994, he stopped giving to the jail any of the sales tax money levied for law enforcement purposes. On October 27, 1994, Sheriff Webre filed a mandamus action in the 17th Judicial District Court, Parish of Lafourche, Louisian…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jackson v. Whitman

5:83-02031 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 1983

Prisoners at the Bienville Parish Jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the parish in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequacies in the areas of living quarters, hygiene, food, security, medical and dental care, disciplinary procedures, communications, mail and visitation, access to courts, law library, recreation, and religion.On May 24, 1…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Att'y General v. Sheriff of Suffolk County

84-03800 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: 1984

In 1984, the Attorney General of Massachusetts filed a complaint in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts seeking an order to compel the Suffolk County Sheriff to accept into his custody all pretrial detainees committed to him by the courts of the Commonwealth. The Sheriff then filed a complaint against the mayor of Boston, the Boston City Council, and the Commissioner of Correction seeking an injunction that would require the defendants to provide suitable facilities for pretrial detain…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
CRIPA Investigation, Landmark Learning Center, Opa-Locka (FL)

No Court

Filed Date: May 17, 1995

On May 17, 1995, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent letters to the governor of Florida, the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of the United States Department of Education informing them of the DOJ's intent to investigate conditions at Landmark Learning Center and G. Pierce Wood Memorial Hospital pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. The DOJ indicate…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
CRIPA Investigation, Pineville (LA)

3:04-cv-00015 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

On September 19, 1994, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) instituted an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Pinecrest Developmental Center in Pineville, Louisiana, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The investigation was instituted due to concerns that the constitutional rights of the residents at Pinecrest were being violated by abuse, neglect, inadequate medical care, inadequate psychiatric care, and failure…