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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Hixson v. Hope

CV029154 | California state trial court

Filed Date: April 26, 2006

Closed Date: March 15, 2012

On April 26, 2006, parents of a juvenile son incarcerated in the San Joaquin Juvenile Hall filed a complaint in the San Joaquin County, California, Superior Court, suing the county's chief probation officer and seeking to enjoin expenditure of public funds for alleged illegal conduct at the juvenile hall. Private counsel and the Prison Law Office represented the plaintiff. Both were also involved as plaintiffs' counsel in similar California cases in this database, Farrell v. Harper (JI-CA-13), …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee v. Macon County Bd. of Ed.

3:63-cv-00604 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1963

Closed Date: 1970

IntroductionThis case began on 1963 when a group of Black students and parents sought to desegregate the twenty public schools of Macon County, Alabama. At that time seventeen of the county’s schools were designated for Black children and three for white children. This was one of many such cases dealing with school desegregation on a school system-by-system basis. Soon after the case was filed, the court ordered the desegregation of Macon County’s schools. However, after interference from Gover…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Lopez v. Massachusetts Division of Human Resources

0984-CV-00576 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2009

In this class-action lawsuit filed in Suffolk County Superior Court, a Massachusetts state trial court, several African-American and Hispanic police officers employed throughout Massachusetts alleged that the Massachusetts Human Resources Division engaged in racial discrimination that violated state law in its administration of promotional exams for police sergeants. This case followed a separate (non-class-action) lawsuit, Lopez v. Lawrence ("Lopez I"), filed in the U.S. District Court for the…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In re Orders Issued by This Court Interpreting Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act [FISA Docket Misc. 13-02]

13-00002 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Filed Date: June 12, 2013

Closed Date: Aug. 27, 2014

For the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collection of FISA Matters, see our special collection. On January 17, 2014, the Director of National Intelligence authorized the declassification and public release of numerous orders approving the National Security Agency's ("NSA") so-called "Bulk Telephony Metadata Program" under Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("FISA"), commonly referred to as Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. Press release available here. Unde…
PRISON CONDITIONS
In the Matter of the Application of Hugh Carey [Attica Grand Jury Materials]

INDEX NO. 15062 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 1977

Background This case is part of the Clearinghouse's special collection on the Attica Uprising. In September of 1971, incarcerated people in New York's Attica Correctional Facility took control of the prison and took several staff members hostage. The uprising ended when state police violently stormed the prison, killing over 40 incarcerated people and staff members. Attica was one of the most significant events in the American prisoners' rights movement and drew public attention to poor conditi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ross v. Gossett

3:15-cv-00309 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 19, 2015

On March 19, 2015, an Illinois prisoner filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against numerous members of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) tactical team “Orange Crush,” the wardens at Illinois River, Menard, Big Muddy River, and Lawrence Correctional Centers, and other IDOC officials. The plaintiff, represented by Loevy & Loevy and the Uptown People's Law Center, sought injunctive relie…

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NATIONAL SECURITY
The New York Times Company v. National Security Agency

1:15-cv-02383 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2015

Closed Date: 2016

On January 12, 2015, the New York Times (“the Times”) submitted a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request to the National Security Agency (“NSA”) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552. The Times sought copies of all NSA Inspector General Reports related to three topics: the NSA’s content collection activities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) amendments section 702 (and the predecessor law, the Protect America Act); bulk phone records collected un…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Raimondo v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

3:13-cv-02295 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 21, 2013

Closed Date: Nov. 20, 2019

On May 21, 2013, director and editors of Antiwar.com filed this suit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sought disclosure of records maintained by the FBI regarding a 2004 threat assessment conducted by the FBI regarding this website. Represented by private counsels and ACLU of Northern California, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and…
POLICING
Guardian News v. Chicago Police Department

2015-CH-06157 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: April 13, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2017

In February 2015, journalists at The Guardian lead by Spencer Ackerman began publishing a series of articles about Homan Square, a secretive facility operated by the Chicago Police Department. The Guardian alleged that the Department abused people detained there and held detainees incommunicado and without record of their detainment. On March 2, 2015, the Guardian submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department for records related to interrogations, detentions, and arrests at H…
POLICING
Kalven v. City of Chicago

09-CH-51396 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2009

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2014

The plaintiff in this case sued the City of Chicago (“the City”), the Chicago Police Department (“CPD”), and CPD Superintendent Jody Weis in Illinois state court under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). The complaint was filed December 22, 2009, in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendants refused to produce public records regarding charges of official misconduct against Chicago police officers and the City’s investigation of those charges. The plaintiff accordingly request…