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CHILD WELFARE
Marisol A. v. Giuliani

1:95-cv-10533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1995

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2018

This federal class action was brought by children in the custody of the New York City Child Welfare Administration ("CWA"), and children who, while not in the custody of CWA, are or will be at risk of abuse or neglect and whose status is known or should be known to CWA. It was filed on December 13, 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights Inc., Lawyers for Children, and private counsel, sought class certification, …
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Sheriff [USDOJ CRIPA Case]

2:15-cv-05903 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2015

On June 6, 1996, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Los Angeles County that it intended to investigate conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail system (the Jails) pursuant to the Civil Rights of the Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In August of 1996, the DOJ toured the Jails with correctional mental health experts. The investigation found that the Jails were failing to provide care meeting constitutional standards to mentally ill inmates. On September 5, 1997, the DOJ…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Tyler v. Percich

4:74-cv-00040 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 1974

Closed Date: 2000

On January 18, 1974, incarcerated people of the St. Louis City Jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against the City of St. Louis, its Department of Public Safety, and the St. Louis Sheriff. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri, sought injunctive relief, alleging that overcrowding at the St. Louis City Jail produced conditions which vi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Crosby & U.S. v. Jones County

2:92-cv-00235 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Oct. 20, 1992

Closed Date: July 23, 1996

In 1992, plaintiffs filed a class action suit against Jones County and several officers and board members of the Jones County Jail in the district court for the Southern District of Mississippi. In May of 1993, the U.S. Department of Justice notified Jones County, Mississippi of its intention to investigate conditions of the county jail. In June of 1993, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the President of the Jones County Board of Supervisors of its findings and made recommendation…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Capel v. McCarthy

2:77-cv-00118 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: July 15, 1977

Closed Date: 1987

On July 15, 1977, inmates of the Clark County Jail in Las Vegas, Nevada, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Commission in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. The plaintiffs, represented by the federal public defender, alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by confinement in conditions that were oppressive, barbaric, degrading, and dangerous to their lives, health, and safety. On August 11, 1977, the …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Stockton v. Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

69-cv-02834 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 1969

Closed Date: 1976

On January 23, 1969, African-American juveniles brought a class action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children. Plaintiffs alleged equal protection and due process violations and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The U.S. Department of Justice [DOJ] intervened in the action as a party plaintiff on November 11, 1969.Following discovery, the pa…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Johnson & U.S. v. Florida

8:87-cv-00369 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: March 11, 1987

Closed Date: 2010

On March 11, 1987, mentally ill patients at G. Pierce Wood Memorial Hospital (GPW), filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Florida in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. The plaintiffs, represented by Florida Rural Legal Services, Advocacy Center, Southern Legal Counsel, the School Board of Manatee County, the Center for Public Representation, a public defender and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and inj…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Halderman v. Pennhurst

2:74-cv-01345 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 30, 1974

Closed Date: 1998

On May 30, 1974, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of former and present residents of Pennhurst School and Hospital ("Pennhurst"), a state institution for persons with intellectual disabilities. Pennhurst was thirty miles north of Philadelphia. The defendants were (after later amendments) Pennhurst, officials of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and county and institutional officials responsible for Philadelp…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Pugh v. Locke

2:74-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 1974

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 1984

In 1972, Alabama prisoners filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Alabama in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs, who were represented by a court-appointed attorney, asked the court to grant them declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequate medical care.On October 4, 1972, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (Judge Frank M. Johnson) fou…