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PRISON CONDITIONS
Miller v. Commissioner of Correction

92-P-665 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: April 9, 1984

On April 9, 1984, a patient at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Judge Robert E. Keeton). The plaintiff alleged that the Department of Corrections had violated his civil rights by depriving him of his rights to reasonable telephone access, unopened privileged mail, and treatment for his mental problems due …
POLICING
United States v. Springfield Police Department

3:22-cv-30043 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 13, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) After four years of investigation, on April 13, 2022 the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division (DOJ), entered into a consent decree with the police department of the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. DOJ had begun their investigation of the Springfield Police Department's (SPD) Narcotic's Bureau, a small plainclothes unit known for violence against civilians, on April 13, 2022. On July 8, 2020, the DOJ published the findings…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Louhghalam v. Trump

1:17-cv-10154 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: March 20, 2017

On January 28, 2017, two lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. who were detained at Boston Logan Airport (Logan) as they were trying to return home to Massachusetts filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (in Boston). Represented by the ACLU of Massachusetts and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Secretary of DHS, the Commissioner of CBP, the Director of the…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Cheek v. Massachusetts Parole Board

SJ-2021-0430 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: Nov. 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

In 2021, ten people on parole sued the Massachusetts Parole Board, alleging that the board violated state law by denying termination of parole in virtually all cases. As a result, people were arbitrarily kept on parole for years or, in some cases, decades. Plaintiffs filed their complaint in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County and were represented by Prison Legal Services and Swomley & Tennen, LLP. In 1955, Massachusetts passed GL c 127 § 130A, allowing the state to terminate an indiv…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Diggs v. Mici

4:22-cv-40003 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about prison officials who allegedly inflicted weeks of unprovoked violence on prisoners, particularly prisoners of color. On January 10, 2022, nine Black and Latino men incarcerated at Massachusetts' Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) filed this putative class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections . The plaintiffs sued state officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the Eight…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pearson v. Hodgson

1:18-cv-11130 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 30, 2018

Case Ongoing

This case is about the price of phone calls made from Bristol County, Massachusetts correctional facilities, which a group of incarcerated individuals and their loved ones alleged were nearly doubled by an illegal kickback scheme orchestrated by the Bristol County Sheriff's Office (BCSO). On May 2, 2018, the plaintiffs filed a class-action suit in Massachusetts state court against the Bristol County Sheriff in his individual and official capacities, the BCSO, and Securus Technologies, the telec…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
K.O. & E. O. v. United States

4:20-cv-12015 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

On November 9, 2020, several asylum-seeking immigrant parents and children forcefully separated upon arrival in the United States filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. District Judge Timothy S. Hillman was assigned to the case. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed suit under the Federal Torts Claims Act, seeking monetary damages as well as injunctive relief. They alleged the United States government was liable for…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Cities of Chelsea and Lawrence v. Trump

1:17-cv-10214 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

This federal lawsuit, filed by the cities of Chelsea and Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Feb. 8, 2017, challenged President Trump’s Jan. 25, 2017 Executive Order 13768, dealing with immigration enforcement, which threatened to withhold federal funds from "sanctuary jurisdictions" and take enforcement action against any locality that impedes the federal government's immigration law. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the Boston Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice…
EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

1:14-cv-14176 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d against Harvard College. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that Harvard's admissions policy discriminated against Asian American applicants. Specifically, the plainti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Briggs v. Mass. Dept. of Corrections

1:15-cv-40162 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 2015

Case Ongoing

On November 24, 2015, several inmates with hearing disabilities filed this class action in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs sued the Massachusetts Department of Correction and the Massachusetts Partnership for Correctional Healthcare under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). Represe…