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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
Cobb v. Aytch

2:73-01290 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 11, 1973

Closed Date: March 13, 1981

In 1973, inmates of the Philadelphia Prison System, represented by Community Legal Services, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against officials of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and officials of the City of Philadelphia. Plaintiffs alleged that transfers between county and state prison institutions are violative of their rights under the first, sixth, eighth, and fourteenth amendments.The parties negotiated a settlement agreement, which permanent…
JAIL CONDITIONS
State ex rel. Sams v. Kirby

No. 26647 | West Virginia state supreme court

Filed Date: 2002

Six prisoners lodged in West Virginia's regional and county jails while awaiting transfer to prisons, including a new one under construction, filed a lawsuit under W. Va. Code § 62-13-1 in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia against the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) on October 4, 2000. The plaintiffs alleged that the delays in transfers from facilities that were not operated by the DOC and were designed for shorter-term stays to longer-term prisons was a denial of the rehabi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Madrid v. Gomez

3:90-cv-03094 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 1990

Closed Date: 2011

On October 26, 1990, prisoners at the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, represented by the Prison Law Office, alleged that the conditions of their confinement were unconstitutional, and they asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that the …
POLICING
U.S. v. State of New Jersey

3:99-cv-05970 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 1999

Closed Date: 2009

On December 12, 1999, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and its Division of State Police under 42 U.S.C. § 14141 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The DOJ alleged that the defendants engaged in an unconstitutional pattern or practice of performing vehicle stops and searches of African American motorists traveling on New Jersey roadways, including the New Jersey Turnpike.Simultaneously wit…
EDUCATION
Gustafson v. University of California-Berkeley

3:97-cv-04016 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 1997

Closed Date: May 5, 2019

On October 31, 1997, represented by private counsel and attorneys from Disability Rights Advocates, three named individual plaintiffs and an organizational plaintiff (the Coalition for Access and Disability Rights, "CADRE," later re-named as the Boalt Disability Law Society) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that the defendants (the University of California at Berkeley, its board of regents, and chancellor) violated 42 U.S.C. § 1981. …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America v. University of Michigan

2:07-cv-11702 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 17, 2007

Closed Date: 2013

On April 17, 2007, the Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America (MPVA) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§12131 et seq. (ADA), against the University of Michigan. The complaint alleged that the University was discriminating against disabled members of the Plaintiff group and others similarly situated by denying them equal access to seating at the University of Michigan Football Stadiu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Shariff v. Goord

6:04-cv-06621 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2004

Closed Date: 2011

This single Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse case summary describes developments in a series of cases instituted by a disabled state prisoner in New York and dealing with safe transportation of prisoners who use wheelchairs. The cases were: 01-cv-1140 (Southern District of New York) 04-cv-6621 (Western District of New York), 05-cv-6025 (retaliation claim, Western District of New York), 05-cv-2903 (failure to protect claim, Southern District of New York). The same prisoner also filed a blad…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Louisiana v. Barrientos

06-1726 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: 2006

Closed Date: 2007

This case involved a criminal proceeding in Louisiana state court. The State charged defendant Omar Barrientos with violating La. R.S. 14:100.13, Operating a Vehicle Without Lawful Presence in the United States. The statute provided:"No alien student or nonresident alien shall operate a motor vehicle in the state without documentation demonstrating that the person is lawfully present in the United States." The statute further provided that the arresting law enforcement officer was to seize an…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Liddell v. Board of Education for the City of St. Louis

4:72-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 1972

Background On February 18, 1972, five African-American parents and their minor children filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They sued the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis and a number of its officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, claiming that the defendants operated city schools in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the plai…