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PRISON CONDITIONS
Lippert v. Godinez

1:10-cv-04603 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 23, 2010

Case Ongoing

On July 23, 2010, a prisoner at Stateville Correction Center filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued Wexford Health Services and the Illinois Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, representing himself pro se, asked the court for monetary damages and injunctive relief. The plaintiff claimed that the defendants were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs resulting from Type 1 Diabetes, viola…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of El Cenizo v. State of Texas

5:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

This suit challenged Texas's "Sanctuary City" legislation, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which required local Texas law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and punished them if they did not. Unlike the other suits in this special collection, this suit did not challenge President Trump's "Sanctuary City" Executive Order. At the time of this writing, there were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso C…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Parsons v. Ryan

2:12-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 22, 2012

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: In this preexisting class action addressing medical care in Arizona's prisons, the district court denied COVID-19 emergency relief on March 23, 2020. Notwithstanding the grave threats posed by congregate imprisonment during the pandemic, the court held that the emergency measures sought by the plaintiffs were outside of its authority under the settlement agreement in this case. However, the Court did (subsequently) order Arizona to disclose to class counsel who had been tested…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings

3:20-cv-02731 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action lawsuit brought on April 20, 2020, by seven individuals in immigration detention at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility (MVDF) and the Yuba County Jail (YCJ), seeking immediate release from unsafe conditions of the jail in light of the global coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the request for TRO on April 29, requiring ICE to provide information and access to detainees to facilitate a process of considering bail requests. On June 9, the court granted …
JAIL CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation of the Boyd County Detention Center

N/A | No Court

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2016

Case Ongoing

On November 1, 2016, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division notified Boyd County officials of its intent to conduct an investigation of the Boyd County Detention Center pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The DOJ indicated that the purpose of the investigation was to determine whether prisoners are adequately protected from the use of excessive force, whether prisoners are subject to an invasion of their bodily privacy …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Johnson v. Wetzel

1:16-cv-00863 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 12, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 12, 2016, an inmate who had been in solitary confinement since 1979 filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff, represented by the Abolitionist Law Center and private counsel, sued under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for violations of the Eighth Amendment and the procedural and substantive components of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The complaint alleged that “confinement in small cells for approximately 23 hours a day for more …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Jenkins v. Kansas City Missouri School District

4:77-cv-00420 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 26, 1977

Case Ongoing

On 05/26/1977, the Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD) and four members of the school board and their children (KCMSD students), brought this school desegregation lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the States of Kansas and Missouri, three federal agencies, and several suburban school districts in Kansas and Missouri. The Kansas-Missouri state border forms the western boundary of the KCMSD, so the districts surrounding KCMSD were in both states. The plaintiffs alleged that the de…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cody v. Hillard

4:80-cv-04039 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 7, 1980

Case Ongoing

On March 7, 1980, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota filed a class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the South Dakota Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and by East River Legal Services, asked the court for class certification and declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional righ…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Illinois v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02112 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case was about Illinois election law (candidate nomination and signature gathering procedures) during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 election.The Libertarian Party of Illinois, the Green Party of Illinois, and several independent candidates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on April 2, 2020. Defendants were various members of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Plaintiffs challenged signature-gathering requirements for ballot qualification durin…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Williams v. Quinn

1:05-cv-04673 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2005

Case Ongoing

On August 15, 2005, residents of an intermediate care facility (IMD) with mental illness filed a lawsuit under the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act against various Illinois state officials in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and legal services, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that they were needlessl…