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Fant v. City of Ferguson

4:15-cv-00253 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

On February 8, 2015, persons jailed for failing to pay fines imposed by the City of Ferguson that they could not afford filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They made a number of allegations against Ferguson, including: (1) that the City failed to conduct an inquiry into whether plaintiffs were able to pay their fines before jailing them, in violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment; (2) that the City fai…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
S.J. v. Tidball

2:20-cv-04036 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 3, 2020

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) Nine children with medically complex conditions enrolled in Missouri's Medicaid program brought this suit alleging that the Department of Social Services failed to provide the in-home nursing care the children were approved for. The parties settled in September 2022.
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Jenkins v. Kansas City Missouri School District

4:77-cv-00420 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 26, 1977

Case Ongoing

On 05/26/1977, the Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD) and four members of the school board and their children (KCMSD students), brought this school desegregation lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the States of Kansas and Missouri, three federal agencies, and several suburban school districts in Kansas and Missouri. The Kansas-Missouri state border forms the western boundary of the KCMSD, so the districts surrounding KCMSD were in both states. The plaintiffs alleged that the de…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hicklin v. Precynthe

4:16-cv-01357 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 22, 2016, a 37-year-old transgender woman incarcerated in the Potosi Correctional Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiff sued the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) and Corizon LLC, the contracted medical provider for MDOC, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by Lambda Legal, she sought injunctive and declaratory relief, claiming violations of the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause. Judge Noel…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Tinsley v. Pierce

4:89-cv-00023 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 1989

Case Ongoing

On January 17, 1989, residents of T.B. Watkins Homes, a public housing development operated by the Housing Authority of Kansas City, Missouri, filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the State of Missouri in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by racial discri…
POLICING
Hussein v. County of St. Louis

4:14-cv-01410 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2014

Case Ongoing

The ACLU filed this federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of Missouri on August 14, 2014, a few days after the police shooting of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, and during the days of protests that followed. The lawsuit was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the County of St. Louis, Missouri, and the City of Ferguson. The lawsuit claimed that people photographing and recording police actions in ‪Ferguson‬ have a First Amendment right to do so. …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Parton v. White

2:81-cv-00019 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 11, 1981

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 1981, prisoners at the Missouri Training Center for Men in Moberly, Missouri, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Missouri Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs, represented by Gateway Legal Services, alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding at the prison. On November 21, 1983, the parties entered into a consent decree, and on December 30, 1983, the U.S. …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
Blake v. Carnahan

09AC-CC00621 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 2009

(This is a temporary summary, while we research the case.) On October 28, 2009, three Missouri citizens represented by the ACLU, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, asked the court to stop a proposed initiative from being placed on the 2010 ballot for a constitutional amendment redefining the term "person."
POLICING
St. Louis Police Officers' Association v. St. Louis

2222-CC09234 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2022

Case Ongoing

On August 3, 2022, St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones signed into law Board Bill 47. The law granted the Civilian Oversight Board ("COB")––an organ created in 2015––far greater powers than it had before. Now the COB had the ability to issue subpoenas, have control over investigations into complaints about St. Louis police officers, and maintain final authority regarding discipline. This lawsuit was filed in response. On August 8, 2022, three police officer groups––the St. Louis Police Officers' Ass…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Johnson v. Lark

4:71-00114 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1971

Incarcerated people at the St. Louis City Jail in Missouri filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the city in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society, alleged that their civil rights had been violated by inadequacies at the jail, including overcrowding, sanitation and living conditions, discipline and procedures for solitary confinement, rules for mail and visitation, inadequate me…