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PRISON CONDITIONS
Barfield v. Cook

3:18-cv-01198 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, persons in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Correction suffering from the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Department on July 19, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea was assigned. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought to represent a class of all people who are or will be prisoners in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Corrections, and who…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bartkus v. Manson

2:80-cv-00506 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 1980

On August 22, 1980, Richard Bartkus filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Connecticut Corrections Department. This case was consolidated and named lead case with five other cases filed against the defendant in 1981 and 1982. The plaintiffs in the other cases were Palmer Gaines, Joseph L. Letezeio, Jr., and Ernest Bradshaw. The plaintiffs were represented by the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union and Legal Assistance to Prisoners. Othe…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Washington v. Meachum

94-534616 | Connecticut state trial court

Filed Date: 1994

In 1994, the Superior Court of Connecticut heard a class action lawsuit filed by inmates of the Connecticut correctional institutions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Commissioner of Correction, challenging regulations that authorized surveillance of prisoners' telephone use and mail. The inmates were represented by Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation. They challenged the regulations as violating Connecticut law and the United States Constitution. The case was tried in state court…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lareau v. Manson

2:78-00145 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: March 21, 1978

In 1980 inmates of the Hartford Community Correctional Center ("HCCC") filed separate lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Warden of the prison and the Commissioner of Corrections for overcrowding, inadequacies in health care, sanitation, food, heating, recreation, counseling services and safety. Plaintiffs were represented by various legal services organizations in Connecticut. The plaintiffs' actions were consolidate…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Martinez-Brooks v. Easter

3:20-cv-00569 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 27, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This was a class action brought in 2020 by prisoners held at the Federal Correctional Center (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, seeking immediate release or home confinement of medically vulnerable individuals and implementation of safety measures to lower the risk of COVID-19. It settled in July 2020 and the settlement expired after fifteen months. On April 27, 2020, four individuals held at the Federal Correctional Center (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut filed this putative class …
EDUCATION
Alexander v. Yale

3:77-cv-00277 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 3, 1977

Closed Date: Sept. 22, 1980

This case was the first sexual harassment case brought under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., which bans sex discrimination in education by institutions that receive federal funding. On July 3, 1977, several female students enrolled at Yale College and a faculty member filed this suit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against Yale University. They alleged that Yale was violating Title IX and H.E.W.'s Title IX regulatio…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Andrews v. Manson

3:81-cv-00020 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 1981

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)According to the ACLU National Prison Project 1995 Status Report on state prisons and the courts: "Other facilities under consent decree are Bridgeport Correctional Center... Andrews v. Manson, No. N81-20 (D. Conn. 1982). Although the orders entered in both of these cases remain in effect, they are not being monitored actively."
DISABILITY RIGHTS
In re The National Board of Medical Examiners

DJ# 202-16-181 | No Court

Filed Date: 2011

Closed Date: Feb. 23, 2014

A medical student with dyslexia filed a complaint with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) violated Title III the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAA) and its implementing regulation in NBME's administration of United States Medical Licensing Examine (USMLE). Specifically, the student alleged that the USME improperly found that he did not prove that he had a disability within the meaning of the ADA…
EDUCATION
Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, Inc.

3:20-cv-00201 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

The four plaintiffs in this case are high school track athletes who alleged that having to compete against transgender female peers (consistently referred to as "biological males" in their briefs) has caused the plaintiffs to lose out on significant opportunities to win competitions and further advance in their track careers. They filed suit on February 12, 2020 in the District Court for the District of Connecticut against their school districts and the Connecticut Interschool Athletic Conferen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Connecticut v. Department of Homeland Security

3:19-cv-01597 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) interpretation of the Pardon Waiver Clause of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)(8 U.S.C. §1227). The clause provided that that a noncitizen will not be deportable for certain criminal convictions “if [the noncitizen] . . . has been granted a full and unconditional pardon by the President of the United States or by the Governor of any of the several States.” Connecticut granted pardons via a Board of Pardons and Paroles…