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CHILD WELFARE
Salazar v. Edwards

No. 92 Ch 5703 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: 1992

Closed Date: 1999

In 1992, homeless children and their parents filed a class action lawsuit in Illinois State Court against the Illinois State Board of Education, the Illinois Coordinator for Homeless Children and Youth, the State Superintendent of Education, the Chicago School Board, and the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees. A children class and parent class was created. The children class consisted of all children between the ages of three and twenty who were or would be living in Chicago, homeless, and…
CHILD WELFARE
David B. v. McDonald

1:79-cv-01662 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 25, 1979

Closed Date: 1998

On April 25, 1979, a class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, on behalf of a class of children in Cook County, Illinois, who were either wards of the juvenile court or had petitions for wardship pending, and had emotional, physical, or mental disabilities. The plaintiffs represented by the Cook County Public Guardian alleged that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCSF), the Illinois Department of Mental Health and D…
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Elrod

1:76-04768 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 1976

On December 29, 1976, the United States filed a lawsuit against the Cook County Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Illinois. The United States sought injunctive relief, alleging that the conditions of overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, and inadequate visitation at the Department of Corrections constituted violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the individuals incarcerated there. The United States further alleged that the defendants we…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Duran v. Elrod

1:74-cv-02949 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 1974

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2011

On October 11, 1974, pretrial detainees in the custody of the Cook County, Illinois, Department of Corrections brought a class action suit against county officials under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging violations of their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to provide safe and humane conditions of confinement. The plaintiffs were represented in part by the MacArthur Justice Center of the University of Chicago. The District C…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harrington v. Devito

1:74-cv-03290 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 1974

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2011

Pretrial detainees, incarcerated in Cook County, Illinois, were in need of mental health care; they brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois under 42 U.S.C. §1983 alleging that state and county officials failed to provide it. After several years of negotiations under court supervision, the parties settled the case by consent order (the "Agreed Order") in 1978. Among other things, the Agreed Order ordered the Defendants to follow certain procedures respe…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ortiz v. Turner

4:77-02099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 1977

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 1987

Inmates in Illinois filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois alleging that prison officials failed to keep Alexander County Jail to minimum standards. Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance and Saint Louis University Law School represented the plaintiffs. Citing Bush v. Viterna, 795 F.2d 1203 (5th Cir. 1986), Illinois Department of Corrections officials filed a motion to dismiss the complaint. In a January 8, 1987 order, the court (Chief Judge James L. Foreman) g…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Donnell C. v. Illinois State Board of Education

1:92-cv-08230 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 1992

Closed Date: 2004

On December 17, 1992, twenty-three school-aged pretrial detainees in the Cook County Jail in Illinois filed this class action lawsuit under the Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The plaintiffs filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, on behalf of all current and future pretrial detainees confined in the divisions of the C…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Illinois

1:92-cv-00694 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1992

Closed Date: Feb. 14, 1996

On January 28, 1992, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of residents at the W.A. Howe Developmental Center pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. against the State of Illinois and W.A. Howe Developmental Center in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The DOJ alleged that the defendants deprived residents of the facility of their constitut…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
In Re: DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Chicago-Read Mental Health Center

Never Filed | No Court

On May 26, 1993, the Department of Justice sent a letter to the Governor of Illinois detailing findings from an investigation of conditions in the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutional Persons Act (CRIPA). The investigation was conducted in November of 1992. The findings letter indicated that conditions at Chicago-Read violated the constitutional rights of its patients to adequate medical care and reasonable safety. Inadequate conditions included the …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. Lane

1:81-cv-00355 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 1981

Closed Date: Sept. 28, 1998

In 1981, inmates in protective custody at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, with the assistance of Kirkland & Ellis, filed a class action suit in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against prison officials. The inmates sued under section 1983 and state laws for alleged violations of their first, eighth, and fourteenth amendment rights arising from the living conditions and institutional programs provided to those inmates in protective custody. In 1986, after le…