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CHILD WELFARE
David B. v. McDonald

1:79-cv-01662 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 25, 1979

Closed Date: 1998

On April 25, 1979, a class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, on behalf of a class of children in Cook County, Illinois, who were either wards of the juvenile court or had petitions for wardship pending, and had emotional, physical, or mental disabilities. The plaintiffs represented by the Cook County Public Guardian alleged that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCSF), the Illinois Department of Mental Health and D…
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…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Jerry M. v. District of Columbia

1519-85 | District of Columbia state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 1985

On March 1, 1985, a class of juveniles confined at juvenile detention centers operated by the District of Columbia ("the District") filed a lawsuit against the District under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. They alleged unconstitutional conditions of confinement in violation of the juveniles' Fifth and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiffs specifically challenged the conditions of confinement at Cedar Knoll Youth Center and Oak Hill Youth Center, both in Laure…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harrington v. Devito

1:74-cv-03290 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 1974

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2011

Pretrial detainees, incarcerated in Cook County, Illinois, were in need of mental health care; they brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois under 42 U.S.C. §1983 alleging that state and county officials failed to provide it. After several years of negotiations under court supervision, the parties settled the case by consent order (the "Agreed Order") in 1978. Among other things, the Agreed Order ordered the Defendants to follow certain procedures respe…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Monaco v. Stone

1:98-cv-03386 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 5, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2016

Background On May 5, 1998, inmates in the Suffolk County Jail in New York filed a putative class action complaint on behalf of all individuals with mental illnesses facing civil commitment in jails and state-run hospitals. The suit also contained some individual claims from an individual plaintiff who was confined in Suffolk County jail and claims from the Mental Disability Law Clinic of Touro Center. The named defendants were various state officials in New York, the New York State Office of M…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Jamison v. Farabee

4:78-cv-00445 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 1978

On February 28, 1978, persons confined as patients in California under the Welfare and Institutions Act filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Mental Health (CDMH), the California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS), and the California Department of Health Services (CDHS). Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and private counsel, they sough…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Johnson & U.S. v. Florida

8:87-cv-00369 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: March 11, 1987

Closed Date: 2010

On March 11, 1987, mentally ill patients at G. Pierce Wood Memorial Hospital (GPW), filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Florida in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. The plaintiffs, represented by Florida Rural Legal Services, Advocacy Center, Southern Legal Counsel, the School Board of Manatee County, the Center for Public Representation, a public defender and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and inj…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Knecht v. Gillman

4:72-00063 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: March 9, 1972

Sometime in 1972, two mental institution inmates at Iowa Security Medical Facility (ISMF) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against state officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the Hawkeye Legal Aid Society, asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants' actions constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Specifically, the plaintiff contended that the…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Preston v. Gutierrez

2:90-cv-06029 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 12, 1990

Closed Date: 1999

On March 12, 1990, a patient at Fulton State Hospital (Fulton) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Fulton and the Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Jefferson City Division. The plaintiff, represented by Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services, asked the court for release and back-pay of Social Security benefits, alleging that various conditions of confinement at Fulton were unconstitutional and that the defe…