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PRISON CONDITIONS
Ross v. Gossett

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

Filed Date: March 19, 2015

Case Ongoing

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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Graff v. County of Salem

1:07-cv-02259 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 14, 2007

Closed Date: May 7, 2009

On May 14, 2007, two individuals who had been arrested on minor charges filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, challenging the Salem County Correctional Department's policy and practice of strip searching all detainees regardless of the nature of their charged crime and regardless of the absence of reasonable suspicion to believe the detainees were concealing weapons or contraband. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleg…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and the Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, m…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Black v. Franklin County, KY

3:05-cv-00018 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 28, 2005

Closed Date: Aug. 20, 2007

On March 28, 2005, three female plaintiffs, who had been arrested for minor offenses and were strip searched, filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky against Franklin County, Kentucky and Franklin County Correctional Complex. The plaintiffs challenged the strip search policy of the Franklin County Correctional Complex, alleging that they were strip searched pursuant to a blanket policy which required all female pretrial detainees ent…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Byrd v. Maricopa County Sheriff's Department

2:04-cv-02701 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 26, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2012

On November 26, 2004, the plaintiff brought this action pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, Phoenix Division. While the plaintiff had been a pretrial detainee in a minimum-security facility, Maricopa County jail officials ordered a search of his entire housing unit. The plaintiff alleged that during the search, a female training cadet conducted a partial strip search and pat down of his groin area despite the availability of male detention offic…
POLICING
Imani v. City of Baton Rouge

3:17-cv-00439 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 9, 2017

Closed Date: April 16, 2023

On July 9, 2017, thirteen protesters and two reporters who were arrested during a protest in Baton Rouge filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the City of Baton Rouge, as well as numerous agents of the Baton Rouge Police Department, East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Department, and other state agencies, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Article 306 of the State of Louisiana Children's Code. The plaintiffs, represented by private couns…
POLICING
Hardnett v. City of Baton Rouge-Parish of East Baton Rouge

3:23-cv-01393 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case involved a class action lawsuit brought by individuals who were strip-searched and taken into custody without probable cause and without reasonable suspicion by the Baton Rouge Police Department. On September 29, 2023, an individual plaintiff filed this lawsuit against the City of Baton Rouge and the Chief of the Baton Rouge Police Department, in his official capacity, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiff alleged violations of the Fourth Amend…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Amador v. Baca

2:10-cv-01649 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 5, 2010

Case Ongoing

On March 5, 2010, two female former inmates who were imprisoned in the Century Regional Detention Facility ("CRDF"), a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ("LASD") facility, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by a civil rights law firm, the plaintiffs sued the LASD under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged violations of their Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as their equivalents under th…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Logan v. Shealy

1:80-cv-00210 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: March 4, 1980

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 1982

A woman who was strip searched after refusing to take a breathalyzer test after an arrest for a DWI brought this action in the Eastern District of Virginia against Arlington County and various judicial, prosecutorial, and law enforcement officers to challenge the County’s blanket strip search policy for all arrestees. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, alleged violations of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and the Fifth Amendment right to counsel based …
POLICING
Horse v. District of Columbia

1:17-cv-01216 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 21, 2017

Closed Date: July 21, 2021

On June 21, 2017, a photojournalist, a practicing attorney, and two demonstrators filed this lawsuit against the District of Columbia, the individual police officers who committed the alleged acts, the police officers’ supervisors, and the chief of D.C. police in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. Another female demonstrator and her 10-year-old son joined the suit through an amended complaint on January 3, 2018. The plaintiffs claimed, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that the defendan…