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JAIL CONDITIONS
ACLU of New Mexico v. Board of County Commissioners of Valencia County

1:97-cv-01318 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1997

Closed Date: 2000

On October 7, 1997, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and inmates in the Valencia County Jail in Los Lunas, New Mexico filed a class action lawsuit against the Board of County Commissioners, Valencia, New Mexico in the District Court for the District of New Mexico. The complaint sought declaratory and injunctive relief due to conditions in violation of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, 42 U.S.C. Sections 1983 and 1988, and the Americans with Disa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lasky v. Quinlan

1:73-01666 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 16, 1973

Closed Date: 1977

Inmates at the Dutchess County Jail in New York filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the county in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The inmates asked the court to grant them injunctive relief against the county, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequacies at the jail in the areas of classification, personal hygiene, health services, kitchen sanitation, and recreation. On July 25, 1973 the parties entere…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Armstrong v. Metropolitan Gov. of Nashville and Davidson County

3:87-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 31, 1987

Closed Date: 2002

On March 31, 1987, inmates and pretrial detainees being held at the jails in Davidson County, Tennessee filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Tennessee Department of Corrections and the Metropolitan Government of the City of Nashville in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs, represented by the Vanderbilt University Legal Clinic, alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by conditions at the jail, including overcrowd…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Facility Review Panel v. Holden

No. 17240 | West Virginia state appellate court

Filed Date: 1987

Closed Date: April 9, 1987

The Facility Review Panel, on behalf of inmates in the Doddridge County Jail, brought a mandamus action in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia against the sheriff and members of the County Commission of Doddridge County, to compel the closure of the jail until conditions there improved to minimal constitutional and statutory standards. On April 9, 1987, the court, in a per curium opinion, used a totality of the conditions test to find that conditions at the jail constituted cruel and …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. County Commn. of Kanawha City

No. 17096 | West Virginia state supreme court

Filed Date: July 17, 1986

On July 17, 1986, the petitioner, sheriff of Kanawha County, filed a writ of mandamus in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia seeking to compel the county commission to give him the supplies he needed to come into compliance with a May 7, 1986 settlement agreement. The settlement was the result of an action brought on March 14, 1986, by inmates of the county jail to improve conditions in the jail. Following the settlement agreement, the sheriff submitted a request to the County Commi…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Singleton v. Board of Commissioners

63-cv-00963 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 1963

Closed Date: March 5, 1971

Black inmates of the Florida state reform schools filed a class-action lawsuit against the Board of Commissioners of the schools in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida in November of 1963. Plaintiffs were seeking to enjoin racial segregation in the schools and to have the practice declared unconstitutional. The plaintiffs were juveniles who were detained in the segregated system after being arrested and charged with trespass for sitting in a segregated restaura…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Spruytte v. Walters

2:82-00142 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: July 30, 1982

Floyd Spruytte, an inmate at the Michigan Intensive Program Center in Marquette, Michigan, filed a pro se complaint seeking declaratory and injunctive relief as well as money damages against two prison hearing officers under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The complaint alleged that Spruytte's due process rights were violated because of the hearing officers' decision to prohibit him from receiving a paperback dictionary from his mother. Spruytte …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Todaro v. Ward

1:74-04581 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 1974

Closed Date: 2004

In 1974, female inmates at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequate medical care at the prison. On April 25, 1977, the U.S. District…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hyde v. Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice

4:94-cv-02987 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 1994

Closed Date: 2003

Dale Hyde, a pro se plaintiff, brought suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on August 30, 1994, complaining that his religious group was not allowed to meet under the same circumstances as other religious groups at the prison where he was incarcerated. Hyde had previously filed a written complaint with the prison about restrictions on his religious practices as a Jehovah's Witness. On October 23, 1996, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party v. Hazeltine

3:00-cv-03021 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: May 4, 2000

Closed Date: 2000

On May 4, 2000, the Libertarian Party of South Dakota and several concerned citizens filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The plaintiffs sued South Dakota, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, they asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the State misinterpreted state election law when it denied Libertarian Party candidate Brian Lerohl’s request to be added to the primary election ballot. Specificall…