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JAIL CONDITIONS
Gray v. County of Riverside

5:13-cv-00444 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2013

On May 8, 2013, three prisoners in Riverside County jails filed this class-action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Riverside (California) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the access to both physical and mental healthcare was so deficient that it violated the Eighth Amendment proscription of cruel and unusual punishment, violated prisoners' Fourteenth Amendment rights, and constituted deliberate indiffer…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Fraihat v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

5:19-cv-01546 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2019

On August 19, 2019, Al Otro Lado and the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, as well as 15 individuals who are currently being detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a total of 8 facilities across 6 states, filed this class-action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs are represented by the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, Disability Rights Advocates, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and private counsel. The…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Committee for Public Counsel Services v. Chief Justice of the Trial Court

SJ-2020-0115 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

On March 24, 2020, the ACLU of Massachusetts, along with the Committee for Public Counsel Services and the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, filed this emergency petition asking the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts to take immediate action to limit the outbreak of COVID-19 in Massachusetts correctional facilities. Specifically, the petitioners asked that the Court exercise its superintendence powers under state law to: 1) reduce the volume of those entering Massachus…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Money v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02093 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 1, 2021

On April 2, 2020, a group of prisoners filed this class action lawsuit against the Governor of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by the Uptown People's Law Center, Equip for Equality, the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University, the Illinois Prison Project, and Loevy & Loevy, the plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of their Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment right…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Seth v. McDonough

8:20-cv-01028 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

On April 21, 2020, pretrial and post-conviction detainees at Prince George’s County Jail, many of whom have pre-existing medical conditions, some of whom were exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, and all of whom were scared of contracting the virus, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the Director of the Prince George’s County Department of Corrections in her official capacity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The plaintiffs, repre…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Martinez-Brooks v. Easter

3:20-cv-00569 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 27, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2021

On April 27, 2020, four individuals held at the Federal Correctional Center (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut filed this putative class action at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Represented by the Legal Clinic of the Quinnipiac University School of Law, Yale Law School's Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, and private attorneys, they brought the lawsuit against FCI Danbury and the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, as an injuncti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
NC NAACP v. Cooper

20 CVS 500110 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

The North Carolina Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights North Carolina, the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation, and four individual plaintiffs brought this suit and petition for writ of mandamus against North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, and several parole commissioners. The suit was filed in the North Carolina Superior Court for Wake County on April 20, 2020. The complaint was filed amidst th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Torres v. Milusnic

2:20-cv-04450 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

On May 16, 2020, five individuals filed a putative class action against Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S federal prisons, for immediate relief on behalf of a proposed class of all current and future people in post-conviction custody at Lompoc. The plaintiffs alleged that the Warden of Lompoc and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed to adequately treat infected prisoners and implement reasonable health and safety measur…

Complaint - Class Action for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief and Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

Torres v. Milusnic

May 16, 2020

Corrected Complaint - Class Action for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief and Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

Torres v. Milusnic

June 1, 2020

Plaintiff-Petitioners' Notice of Ex Parte Application and Ex Parte Application for Temporary Restraining Order and Order to Show Cause Re: Preliminary Injunction; Memorandum of Points and Authorities

Torres v. Milusnic

June 1, 2020

Plaintiff-Petitioners' Notice of Ex Parte and Ex Parte Application for Provisional Class Certification

Torres v. Milusnic

June 4, 2020

Declarations in Support of Respondents' Opposition to Ex Parte Application for Temporary Restraining Order and Order to Show Cause Re: Preliminary Injunction (Part 3/3)

Torres v. Milusnic

June 5, 2020

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PRISON CONDITIONS
Winston v. Polis

2020CV31823 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

On May 28, 2020, the ACLU of Colorado and the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Denver School of Law sued the Governor of Colorado and the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) for failure to protect medically vulnerable people in prison from COVID-19. Five named plaintiffs represented a class of "Medically Vulnerable Prisoners;" the proposed class consisted of current and future persons held by CDOC who were at a high risk of serious illness or death from C…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Whorley v. Northam

3:20-cv-00255 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 8, 2020

Closed Date: June 9, 2021

This lawsuit was filed on April 8, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, amidst the outbreak of COVID-19 that occurred early in 2020. The plaintiffs were twenty-seven people incarcerated in Virginia state prisons. Represented by the ACLU Foundation of Virginia (ACLU-VA) and private counsel, they sued Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran, the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections Harold Clarke, …