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JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Wyandotte County

2:70-cv-03163 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: June 5, 1970

Closed Date: Jan. 29, 1974

The Attorney General of the United States filed a lawsuit on June 5, 1970, under Sections 301(a) and (b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000b, in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The Attorney General was seeking an injunction against the Wyandotte County Jail regarding an alleged policy of racial segregation within the jail. On May 9, 1972, the district court (Chief Judge Wesley E. Brown) found that there was segregation within the jail but dismissed…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Reinschmeidt v. City of Wichita, KS

99-2312 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: 1999

Closed Date: 2002

Sometime in 1999, a citizen of Wichita, Kansas, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the city in Sedgwick County, Kansas District Court alleging that citizens' constitutional rights had been violated by the city and the Municipal Court, by holding people in contempt of court without proper hearing or legal counsel and jailing them or forced them to work at work release until their traffic or misdemeanor fines had been paid. We do not have a copy of the docket and do not k…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Beaver v. Kingman

No. 49,116 | Kansas state appellate court

Filed Date: 1974

Closed Date: April 1, 1989

In 1974, two incarcerated individuals at the Shawnee County Jail in Kansas filed separate habeas corpus lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the conditions of their confinement. They were both represented by the Legal Aid Society of Topeka. The outcome of their actions is unclear. However, both individuals subsequently filed a new petition, together, in Shawnee District Court, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the County commissioners, in which they purported to represent…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Woodson v. Sully

3:85-cv-03049 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 1985

Closed Date: 2011

On February 27, 1985, prisoners of the Wyandotte County Jail filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys, sued the Board of County Commissioners of Wyandotte County, three individual commissioners, and the Sheriff of Wyandotte County. The plaintiffs challenged the conditions of their confinement. In 1987, the parties negotiated a stipulated consent de…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
T.Y. v. Shawnee County

5:94-cv-04079 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: May 19, 1994

Closed Date: 1996

On May 19, 1994, boys and girls incarcerated at the Shawnee County Youth Center in Topeka, Kansas, filed a class action lawsuit against the county commissioners, the county director of the department of corrections, and the administrator of the Youth Center. The class named included present and future children at the Youth Center; the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas under 42 U.S.C § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the totality of the conditions viola…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Arney v. Bennett

3:77-cv-03045 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1977

On February 23, 1977, inmates of state prisons in Lansing and Hutchinson, Kansas filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Kansas in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs, represented by the Washburn University School of Law Legal Clinic and Legal Services for Prisoners, alleged that prison overcrowding violated their constitutional rights. The prisoners claimed that double-celling, outdoor dormitories, the conditions …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Marshno v. McManus

3:79-03146 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 1979

Closed Date: Nov. 19, 1980

In 1979, Native American inmates at the Kansas State Penitentiary filed a pro se complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas against corrections officials claiming several statutory and constitutional violations. More specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that the prison officials had violated their First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights as well as their rights under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. The plaintiffs stated that the officials had refu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Smith v. Maschner

3:84-cv-03283 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1984

Closed Date: Sept. 5, 1996

Inmates at "A" cellhouse at the Kansas State Penitentiary filed a civil rights lawsuit in state court against officials at the Kansas State penitentiary, complaining of a denial of adequate access to the prison law library. The parties entered into a consent decree on August 19, 1985, granting the plaintiffs more access to the law library and supplementing the materials of the law library. The trial court's order specifically allowed the plaintiff inmates to use the prison law library on Saturd…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

5:51-cv-04316 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 1951

Closed Date: July 27, 1999

This is the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court announced in 1954 that segregated schools were inherently unequal, and in 1955 required school districts to desegregate "with all deliberate speed." It is the most famous civil rights case in American history. But it also had a specific set of plaintiffs -- schoolchildren in Topeka, Kansas -- and a specific history in its own community. This summary focuses on that history, rather than the broader setting and the Supreme Court jurisprudence. …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Jayhawk Homes, Inc.

6:98-cv-01416 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 1998

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 1999

The EEOC's St. Louis district office sued Jayhawk Homes, Inc., a Kansas company, on November 12, 1998 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The contents of the EEOC's complaint are unknown as the docket is the only available document for this case. The EEOC entered a motion for default judgment in August 1999, which was granted and a partial judgment was entered on September 24, 1999. The parties later entered into a consent decree on November 18, 1999, which is not availabl…