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PRISON CONDITIONS
Cooper v. Pate

62-Unknown | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 5, 1962

Closed Date: June 29, 1967

In 1963, an Illinois state prisoner who was a member of the Nation of Islam filed this §1983 suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, against his warden and the Illinois Director of Public Safety, alleging a violation of the prisoner's rights under the 14th, 8th, and 4th Amendments. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged that he was denied permission to obtain and read certain publications, to consult with ministers of his faith, and to attend religious services…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Armstrong v. Bensinger

1:71-02144 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 1971

Closed Date: May 16, 1973

This is a class action brought by people held in the Special Program Unit (SPU) at Stateville Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois. The SPU was part of a trend of “behavior modification units'' designed to control activists and those considered disruptive to the prison. The case arose out of a large fight on June 25, 1971 between 15 guards and people incarcerated and the resulting disciplinary measures. After that incident, the prison was put on general lockdown. In early July 1971, prison staff we…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Carlisle v. Bensinger

1:72-cv-03099 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 1972

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 1973

This is a case brought pro se by people held in the segregation unit of the Joliet Branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary in Joliet, IL. The plaintiffs filed their case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The case was assigned to District Judge William Bauer. The Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections was the defendant.  The plaintiffs filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, arguing numerous violations of the Fifth and Eighth Amendments. As for the Fifth …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bambenek v. White

3:20-cv-03107 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 27, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

This is a challenge to Illinois’ signature collection requirement for initiative referendums to appear on the ballot in light of COVID-19 which made it difficult to safely collect signatures. On April 27, 2020, named plaintiffs, the organizers of two unincorporated political associations, filed a complaint in the District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The plaintiffs were represented by private counsel and the case was assigned to District Judge Sue Myerscough. The defendants inclu…
EDUCATION
Cannon v. University of Chicago

1:75-02402 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 18, 1975

Closed Date: June 7, 1989

This is a case about a female medical school applicant who alleged that she was denied admission because of her gender and age in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and multiple federal statutes. In April of 1975, a 39-year-old female medical school applicant filed this lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by private counsel, she sued the medical schools at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, as well a…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braid v. Stilley

1:21-cv-05283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Center for Reproductive Rights and private counsel filed this suit on October 5, 2021 on behalf of a physician who violated S.B. 8, the Texas law banning abortion care at approximately six weeks of pregnancy, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was an interpleader action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act and sought a declaration that S.B. 8 was unconstitutional. The case was assigned to Judge Jorge Alonso.  The interpleader action was brought …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Money v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02093 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 1, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action brought on behalf of prisoners in the Illinois Department of Corrections seeking various types of relief in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs alleged that as people in groups who are particularly vulnerable to the virus, they were exposed to a heightened risk of COVID-19. On April 10, the judge denied the plaintiffs' request for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on May 20. The parties re…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Chicago Police Department

No Court

Filed Date: 2015

Closed Date: 2017

In the aftermath of the November 2015 release of a police video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, sixteen times first as he walked away and later as he lay in the middle of the road, citizens called for a federal investigation into the Chicago Police Department (CPD). On December 7, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening an investigation into CPD under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.…
POLICING
Chicago "Street Sweeps" Out-of-Court Settlement

NA | No Court

Filed Date: 2015

Case Ongoing

The City of Chicago adopted a new policy in January 2015 after the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH), the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the law firm of Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym challenged the city's practice of confiscating and destroying personal property, including sleeping bags and medicine. For information on how the settlement came to be, and how it is being monitored, see these two articles. Under the 2015 policy, the City of Chicago agreed to (…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Ruderman v. McHenry County

3:22-cv-50115 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This class action lawsuit alleges that McHenry County violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act by forcing immigrant detainees to perform work without compensation.