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Phillips v. Weeks

4:72-00026 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 1972

Closed Date: 1984

In January 1972, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging a pattern and practice of police brutality towards African-American visitors to Little Rock, Arkansas. The class consisted of all black persons who ever resided or visited the City of Little Rock, Arkansas. The trial began in December of 1974 and lasted 30 days. No pattern and practice of police brutality was found, but some specific incidents were substantiated. The pa…
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Campbell v. Cauthron

78-01838 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Filed Date: 1978

In 1978, inmates at the Sebastian County jail filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Eighth Amendment, alleging that their constitutional rights were violated by overcrowding and lack of exercise, inadequate diet, forced exposure to religious witnessing, restricted visitation privileges, denial of access to newspapers, insufficient medical care, and inadequate security. The United States District Court for the Wes…
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Vanke v. Block

2:98-cv-04111 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 1, 1998

Closed Date: 2004

On July 1, 1998, pretrial detainees filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the Los Angeles County Sheriff and the County of Los Angeles claiming that the county maintained an unconstitutional policy of holding pretrial detainees who were eligible for release in order to check for warrants, wants, and holds. The court (Judge Dean D. Pregerson) certified the class and granted the plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injuncti…
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Arias v. Wainwright

4:79-cv-00792 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 23, 1979

On March 23, 1979, prisoners in Florida's county jails filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Florida against the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections. The class consisted of all persons who were or would be confined in the county jails. Southern Legal Counsel, the Florida Justice Institute, the ACLU National Prison Project, and private counsel represented the class. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief…
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Wilson v. Attaway

3:80-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 16, 1980

Closed Date: July 9, 1985

In the spring of 1980, several protesters were arrested following racially motivated riots in Wrightsville, Georgia and filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia against various city and county officials. Plaintiffs alleged unconstitutional arrests and unconstitutional jail conditions in violation of a prior consent decree. The earlier consent decree resulted from a class action by jail detainees and enjoined the sheriff of Johnson County, wit…
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Gonzales v. Moreno

4:88-00029 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 1988

Closed Date: Nov. 1, 1989

In 1987 and 1988, the district court for the District of Nebraska (Judge David L. Piester) consolidated several section 1983 claims against Scotts Bluff County Jail in Gering, Nebraska. The issues presented to the court included conditions of the showers, group recreation, exercise equipment, the ventilation system at the jail, and monitoring inmates' telephone calls. The Court (Judge David L. Piester) concluded that plaintiffs failed to meet their burden of proof concerning monitoring of tel…
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Moore v. Janing

8:72-00223 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: April 12, 1972

Closed Date: Dec. 29, 1976

In 1972, plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society of Omaha-Council Bluffs filed a class action suit on behalf of all present and future pretrial detainees of the Douglas County Jail in Omaha, Nebraska. The Court for the District of Nebraska (Judge Robert Denney) held that due to substantial remodeling of the courthouse jail, many of plaintiffs' issues were moot. The Court (Judge Robert Denney) went on to address issues regarding living conditions at the interim jail, recreation and ex…
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Miles v. Sampson

1:77-cv-00384 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Nov. 25, 1977

Closed Date: March 25, 1982

In 1977, an inmate of the Rockingham County Jail brought a pro se lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the officials of Rockingham County Jail. In his complaint he alleged that he was being kept in solitary confinement under conditions so poor as to constitute cruel and unusual punishment, that he was denied medical treatment, and that he was denied the right to confer with his attorney, despite requests. It is unclear wh…
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Feeley v. Sampson

1:75-00171 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: June 17, 1975

In 1975, a pretrial detainee filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against county officials of the Rockingham County Jail, New Hampshire, arguing that the conditions at the Rockingham County Jail violated detainees' constitutional rights. The Court (Judge Hugh H. Brownes, Jr.) considered the overarching question of whether pretrial detainees who had been accused of unbailable offenses or felonies, and were thus …
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Valentine v. Englehardt

2:78-cv-00270 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1978

Closed Date: July 21, 1980

In February 1978, seven pre-trial detainees at the Passaic County Jail in New Jersey filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the county in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs, represented by the Office of Inmate Advocacy at the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by numerous conditions at the jail.…