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PRISON CONDITIONS
Crooks v. Nix

4:85-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: May 6, 1985

Closed Date: 1989

On May 6, 1985, an individual inmate suffering from leukemia filed a pro se Section 1983 complaint against the Warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary, the Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections, and The Iowa City Medical Center in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Plaintiff alleged that defendants demonstrated deliberate indifference to his medical needs when they denied him a bone marrow transplant and failed to give him adequate pain medication. The …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gibson v. McEvers

3:79-03151 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 20, 1979

Closed Date: 1980

On July 20, 1979, an inmate of the Logan Correction center in Lincoln, Illinois, filed a lawsuit pro se pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the assistant warden, other prison officials, and members of the parole board in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The complaint alleged that as a black inmate, he received unequal treatment in disciplinary proceedings in violation of his due process rights and that defendants prevented his use of the law library in violation of…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Denike v. Fauver

2:83-02737 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: July 24, 1983

On July 24, 1983, inmates at Rahway State prison filed a law suit pro se against officials and employees of the New Jersey State Department of Corrections in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, alleging violations of their constitutional rights. Specifically, plaintiffs alleged that defendants had violated the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution by conducting urine tests of inmates. Two other pro se complaints contesting the urine tes…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Clarkson v. Coughlin

1:91-cv-01792 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 15, 1991

On March 15, 1991, deaf inmates at state prisons in New York filed a class action lawsuit under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12131, against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by the Prisoners' Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by the defendants' failure to pro…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jolly v. Coughlin

1:92-cv-09026 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 1992

Closed Date: 2000

On December 15, 1992, a Rastafarian inmate at the Southport Correctional Facility in Pine City, New York filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) 42 U.S.C. §2000b, against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the defendants had violated his constitutional rights by s…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bryant v. Coughlin

1:94-cv-02940 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 22, 1994

Julius Bryant filed a pro-se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York Department of Corrections on April 22, 1994, seeking damages for deliberate indifference to his medical needs for his disabling back condition while he was an inmate at Green Haven Correctional Facility ("Green Haven"). Following a jury trial, the action was settled on February 20, 1998, by an agreement which called for plaintiff's admission to the Unit for the Physically …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Higgins v. Coombe

1:94-cv-07942 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 1994

Closed Date: 1998

On November 3, 1994, an inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the New York State Department of Corrections and representatives of Greenhaven Correctional Facility (including the prison doctor) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff, who had been incarcerated at Greenhaven, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that his constitution…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Todaro v. Ward

1:74-04581 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 1974

Closed Date: 2004

In 1974, female inmates at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequate medical care at the prison. On April 25, 1977, the U.S. District…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Marrs v. Cox

3:86-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 22, 1986

On April 22, 1986, prisoners at the Oregon State Prison filed a class action lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. On June 9, 1988, the parties entered into a consent decree, and the plaintiffs asked the court to hold the defendants in contempt and enforce the decree when the defendants later disobeyed the decree by refusing to have a corrections sergeant undergo psychiatric evaluation or mediation. On August 23, 1989, the …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. SOO LINE RAILROAD COMPANY dba CP RAIL SYSTEM

0:99-cv-00940 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: June 21, 1999

Closed Date: April 27, 2003

The EEOC's Milwaukee district office sued Soo Line Railroad Company, a Northern-Midwest railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Rail System, on June 21, 1999 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The EEOC's complaint alleged that Soo Line violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to hire a man based on his prior history of disability (a prior ankle and neck injury) due to a company medical system which screens out numerous people with histories of disabili…