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PRISON CONDITIONS
Moorhead v. Lane

2:86-cv-02020 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 1986

This case was a civil rights class action against Illinois prison officials. It alleged discrimination against incarcerated women in housing, training, and pay. It culminated in a consent decree which required the construction of an all-women minimum-security prison and a “good faith” effort to reform education and vocational programs for women. Six incarcerated women filed a class action complaint on January 21, 1986, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Under 42 U.…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Equip for Equality v. Ingalls Memorial Hospital

1:03-cv-00797 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2003

This case is about the scope of a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) facilities and patient access authority. On February 3, 2003, Equip for Equality, Inc., Illinois’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Equip for Equality filed this lawsuit against Ingalls Memorial Hospital (Ingalls), a private hospital offering outpatient and inpatient psychiatric services. This case arose because Equip for Equality were denied entry to monitor Ingalls…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Calvin R. v. Peters

1:82-cv-01955 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 1, 1982

This case alleged that Illinois prison officials failed to address violence among their facility's prison population. It culminated in a settlement in 1990. Unfortunately, the publicly available information on this case is limited. Numerous incarcerated persons at Illinois' Stateville Correctional Facility filed this class action suit on April 1, 1982, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Defendants included various officials from the Illinois Department of Correcti…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Hinds County

3:11-cv-00327 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can communicate with all individuals in a juvenile detention facility where some individuals with disabilities reside, as well as the substantive conditions in a juvenile detention facility. On June 1, 2011, Disability Rights Mississippi, Mississippi’s P&A, and a putative class of juvenile detention facility residents filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. They filed this lawsuit…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. H.T. Hackney Co.

5:03-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2005

In February 2003, the Louisville Area Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against H.T. Hackney Company in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. After the date for jury trial had been set, the parties settled the lawsuit in June 2003 through a consent decree. The two-year de…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Iowa v. Rabiner Treatment Center

3:16-cv-03010 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Closed Date: May 26, 2016

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) records and residents access authority. On February 10, 2016, Disability Rights Iowa (DRI), Iowa’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. DRI filed this lawsuit against Rabiner Treatment Center (Rabiner), a youth psychiatric residential treatment center, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by itself, DRI sought declarative and in…
POLICING
United States v. City of New Orleans

2:12-cv-01924 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

In 2010, New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu invited the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to review civil rights issues at the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), and propose any necessary reforms. The DOJ opened the requested investigation on May 15, 2010, pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on March 17, 2011, the DO…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baxley v. Jividen

3:18-cv-01526 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: The plaintiffs in this West Virginia jail conditions class-action case filed an emergency motion for relief on March 25, 2020, seeking an order to require the defendants to develop, disclose, and implement a plan to take appropriate actions to protect the plaintiff class from COVID-19. The court denied the motion because it found that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim. On December 18, 2018, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at West Virginia…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Mason v. City of Huntsville

5:10-cv-02794 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2010

Closed Date: March 13, 2014

On October 15, 2010, two private plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The plaintiffs asserted claims against the City of Huntsville, Alabama (the City) for injunctive relief, attorney’s fees, and costs pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act). They also sought an order requiring the City to undertake a self-evaluation of its program…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Charlson v. Galvin

SJ-2020-0588 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2020

This case involved voting accommodations for the 2020 Massachusetts primary election that was set to take place on September 1, 2020. On August 21, 2020, the Disability Law Center (DLC) (Massachusetts’s Protection and Advocacy agency) filed an emergency petition for relief on behalf of the Bay State Council of the Blind, the Boston Center for Independent Living, and six individual voters with disabilities against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (“Secretary”) in his official c…