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Goldsby v. Carnes

4:72-cv-20122 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 1972

This case involves a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Jackson County Jail.On January 3, 1973, the District Court John W. Oliver, Jr. issued a memorandum opinion and order, approving the Consent Decree entered into by the parties. Goldsby v. Carnes, 365 F.Supp. 395 (W.D.Mo. 1973). In his opinion, Judge Oliver chronicled the increase of prisoner litigation and the challenges…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Montez v. Owens

1:92-cv-00870 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 5, 1992

Closed Date: May 15, 2018

This federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, in 1992, by six incarcerated individuals with disabilities who alleged that Colorado's prisons did not comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In 1996, the case became certified as a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all incarcerated individuals with disabilities.In 2003, the state Department of Corrections agreed in a multimillion-dollar settle…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Pierce v. LaVallee

1:59-cv-07813 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: 1959

Closed Date: June 17, 1963

This is a historic case about religious liberty and discipline in New York prisons. It's part of the Clearinghouse's collection of several cases brought by prisoners rights activist (and prisoner) Martin Sostre, whose wikipedia biography is here.  Sostre brought this lawsuit to challenge policies surrounding religious expression at Clinton State Prison in New York. In August 1959, prison officials charged Sostre and two other individuals with “agitating.” The plaintiffs sued the Clinton State P…
EDUCATION
Leandro v. North Carolina

95-CVS-1158 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: May 24, 1994

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the right to “sound basic education” under North Carolina’s constitution. In 1994, the school boards for five impoverished, underperforming counties, a student in one of these counties, and that student’s mother filed this lawsuit in North Carolina state court. The plaintiffs sued the State of North Carolina and the North Carolina State Board of Education for declaratory relief and injunctive relief. Invoking two provisions of the state constitution, the plaintiffs argued t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Goff v. Nix

4:90-cv-50145 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: March 16, 1990

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 1997

In 1993, two inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against prison officials seeking an injunction against the prison's prohibition of legal correspondence between inmates in different prison units. Following a bench trial, the District Court (Judge Donald E. O'Brien) granted an injunction on October 19, 1993, finding that restrictions on legal communications burdened inmat…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cooper v. Pate

62-Unknown | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 5, 1962

Closed Date: June 29, 1967

In 1963, an Illinois state prisoner who was a member of the Nation of Islam filed this §1983 suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, against his warden and the Illinois Director of Public Safety, alleging a violation of the prisoner's rights under the 14th, 8th, and 4th Amendments. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged that he was denied permission to obtain and read certain publications, to consult with ministers of his faith, and to attend religious services…
JAIL CONDITIONS
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…
EDUCATION
Cannon v. University of Chicago

1:75-02402 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 18, 1975

Closed Date: June 7, 1989

This is a case about a female medical school applicant who alleged that she was denied admission because of her gender and age in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and multiple federal statutes. In April of 1975, a 39-year-old female medical school applicant filed this lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by private counsel, she sued the medical schools at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, as well a…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Butler v. Suffolk County

2:11-cv-02602 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

Case Ongoing

On May 27, 2011, twenty persons then confined in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility (SCCF), which consists of the Riverhead Correctional Facility (a medium/maximum security jail) and the Yaphank Correctional Facility (a minimum security jail), filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983. The lawsuit was filed pro se as a class action, on behalf of those individuals and all others similarly situated. The plaintiffs sought …
EDUCATION
Department of Education OCR Title IX Investigation of University of Southern California

09-13-2294 | No Court

Filed Date: 2013

Case Ongoing

The United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) received a complaint in 2013 filed by University of Southern California (USC) students on behalf of themselves and other students, which alleged that USC failed to respond promptly and equitably to reports of sexual harassment or sexual violence in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (09-13-2294). A subsequent complaint (09-16-2128) was filed by a male student against the university in 2016. The compl…