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Cody v. Hillard

4:80-cv-04039 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 7, 1980

Case Ongoing

On March 7, 1980, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota filed a class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the South Dakota Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and by East River Legal Services, asked the court for class certification and declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional righ…
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York v. County of El Dorado

2:90-cv-00833 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: June 28, 1990

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 1994

Inmates at the El Dorado and South Lake Tahoe jails filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit against county officials in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on June 28, 1990. The case was originally assigned to Judge John F. Moulds, but was refereed to Magistrate Judge Gregory G. Hollows for settlement purposes. Plaintiffs were represented by the Prisoner Rights Union. The case settled at conference, including a limitation on the population of both the Placerv…
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Adams & Knights v. Kentucky

3:14-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 2014

Closed Date: Dec. 24, 2020

On January 1, 2014, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners in the Kentucky prison system filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated against the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Kentucky Department of Corrections, several other departments of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and by the Washington Lawyers' Committee Prisoners Rights Project, alleged violations of the America…
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Williams v. City of Philadelphia

2:08-cv-01979 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 28, 2008

Closed Date: 2018

On April 28, 2008, inmates in the Philadelphia Prison System (PPS) filed a putative class-action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the City of Philadelphia and its Commissioner of Corrections. The plaintiffs, represented by the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project and the Disabilities Law Project, asked the court for injunctive and declaratory relief, claiming that PPS subjected inmates to dangerous, unsa…
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Center for Legal Advocacy v. Marshall

1:11-cv-02285 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2011

Case Ongoing

The Center for Legal Advocacy brought this lawsuit on behalf of criminal defendants with mental illnesses who had been held for months in Colorado jails awaiting placement in a competency restoration program after having been found incompetent to stand trial. The suit was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and filed on August 31, 2011 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The Center accused the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) and the Colorado Mental Health Institute …
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Disability Rights Washington v. Inslee

4:18-cv-05071 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: April 23, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 23, 2018, Disability Rights Washington—the state protection and advocacy organization—filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. The plaintiff sued Governor Jay Inslee, the Secretary of the Department of Corrections, and the Superintendent of the State Penitentiary under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act on behalf of its constituents who are inmates with mental illness held in overly restrictive cond…
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Hall v. County of Milwaukee

2:17-cv-00379 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: March 14, 2017

Closed Date: June 8, 2018

On March 14, 2017, a female prisoner who was forced to receive prenatal care, give birth, and undergo post-partum treatment while shackled, filed a putative class-action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The plaintiff sued the County of Milwaukee under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, sought compensatory damages and attorneys’ fees. The plaintiff alleged that in being shackled in accordance with the Milwauke…
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Aragon v. Raemisch

1:17-cv-01744 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: July 19, 2017

Closed Date: April 23, 2019

On July 19, 2017, four prisoners suffering from the Hepatitis C virus who were under the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, sued the executive director of the CDOC, the chief medical officer of the CDOC, and the director of clinical and correctional services of the CDOC under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had denie…
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Harman v. Ahern

3:14-cv-03051 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 2, 2014

Closed Date: 2016

On June 2, 2014, several women who claimed they were unjustifiably forced to take pregnancy tests after they were arrested filled this lawsuit in Superior Court in Alameda County. The plaintiffs sued the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department under 42 U.S.C § 1983 and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by both private counsel and the ACLU, asked the court for injunctive relief. Specifically, they asked the court to eradicate the requirement that all female arrestees take a pregnancy test regar…
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C-Pod Inmates of Middlesex County Adult Correction Center v. Middlesex County

3:15-cv-07920 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2015

Case Ongoing

On November 5, 2015, the plaintiffs, nine pretrial detainees, filed this class action in the United States District Court of New Jersey. The plaintiffs sued Middlesex County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for the deprivation of rights secured by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, asked the court to declare that the conditions in solitary confinement were unconstitutional, to en…