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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)
Bates v. Duby

Civ.A. CV-89-088 | Maine state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 1989

On February 27, 1989, patients at the Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI) filed a class action lawsuit under state law against the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services (the "Department"), the Department of Human Services (DHS), the Commissioner of DHS and the Superintendent of AMHI, in the Superior Court of Maine. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging violations of rights resulting from inappropriate trea…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Ricci v. Okin

1:72-cv-00469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 14, 1972

Closed Date: 2013

On February 7, 1972 a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of mentally disabled clients of Belchertown State School in Massachusetts against various Commonwealth officials responsible for the operation of the school in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, filing under the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396(a), asserted that conditions at the school violated residents' statutory and constitutional rights, including the right to minimally adeq…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Jackson v. Fort Stanton Hospital & Training School

1:87-cv-00839 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: July 8, 1987

On July 8, 1987, the Supporters of Developmentally Disabled New Mexicans, Inc. and twenty-one persons with developmental disabilities filed this class action in District Court for the District of New Mexico. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, challenging the institutionalization of developmentally disabled persons at two state-owned and operated institutions: 1) Fort Stanton Hospital and Training School (Fort Stanton) and 2) Los Lunas Hospital …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Armstrong v. Newsom

4:94-cv-02307 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 1994

On June 29, 1994, eleven California state prisoners and parolees with disabilities filed this lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections—now the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”)—in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California. Represented by the Prison Law Office, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the CDCR had discriminated against them and all others similarly situat…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Langford v. Racicot AND In Re: Conditions at Montana State Prison v. Montana

6:92-cv-00013 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 1992

This entry describes the consolidated federal class action lawsuits arising out of complaints about the treatment of prisoners in Montana State Penitentiary. The Initial Class Action SuitOn January 28, 1992, inmates at the Montana State Penitentiary filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Montana Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by poor medical care, denta…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Walker v. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

3:85-cv-01210 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 25, 1985

On June 25, 1985, the plaintiffs, several thousand black clients of low-income housing programs in the West Dallas Projects, brought this class action lawsuit against nine Dallas metropolitan suburbs, the Dallas Housing Authority ("DHA"), and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD"). The plaintiffs, represented by North Central Texas Legal Services, brought the action against the defendants for violations of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 3604. The case was filed in the U.S…
POLICING
L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

No Court Case | No Court

Filed Date: 1992

Closed Date: 2014

In the summer of 1991, following four controversial officer-involved shootings of minorities, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appointed Judge James G. Kolts to lead an inquiry into the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) and its handling of brutality complaints.Judge Kolts appointed attorney Merrick Bobb as general counsel to lead the inquiry. Mr. Bobb was previously part of the Christopher Commission's investigation of the LAPD in the wake of the Rodney King incident. He assemb…

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: 1st Semiannual Report by Special Counsel Merrick J. Bobb & Staff

L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

Sept. 1, 1993

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: 2nd Semiannual Report by Special Counsel Merrick J. Bobb & Staff

L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

April 1, 1994

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: 3rd Semiannual Report by Special Counsel Merrick J. Bobb & Staff

L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

Dec. 1, 1994

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: 4th Semiannual Report by Special Counsel Merrick J. Bobb & Staff

L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

June 1, 1995

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: 5th Semiannual Report by Special Counsel Merrick J. Bobb & Staff

L.A. County Sheriff's Department (Kolts Report and Implementation)

Feb. 1, 1996

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POLICING
Thomas v. County of Los Angeles

2:90-cv-05217 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 1990

Closed Date: May 4, 2010

On September 26, 1990, the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund (LDF) filed a class action civil rights lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985. The class included more than 100 minority residents of Lynwood, a South-Central Los Angeles neighborhood. The plaintiffs sued the County of Los Angeles (“County”), the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (“LASD”), the City of Lynwood (“City”), and several individual LAS…
POLICING
People of the State of New York v. Wallkill

7:01-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2001

Closed Date: Feb. 28, 2006

This case involved misconduct by the Wallkill Police Department (WPD). On January 18, 2001, the Attorney General filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Town of Wallkill (Town), seeking injunctive relief to reform and monitor the WPD. The case was assigned to District Judge Colleen McMahon. The lawsuit was the offshoot of the Attorney General's investigation of the WPD. The investigation revealed a pattern of pervasive misconduct, including…