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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Kansas And Mid-Missouri Inc. v. Donnelly

2:07-cv-04164 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2007

Closed Date: July 1, 2010

This is a case about Missouri’s Ambulatory Surgical Center Licensing Law, which restricted access to abortion in the state of Missouri. On August 20, 2007, Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and a physician providing abortions for Planned Parenthood filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Missouri. Planned Parenthood sued the state of Missouri, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Boone County, and Jackson County, MO under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Missouri v. Biden

21-cv-01329 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: In this case, several states sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021. The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 29, 2021, which enjoined the defendants from implementing the vaccination requirements in the states party to the lawsuit. The defendants appealed to the Eighth Circuit and moved for a stay of the injunction, which was denied by the …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc. v. Parson

2:19-cv-04155 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

On July 30, 2019, the ACLU filed this litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri to challenge Missouri laws that would ban abortion in the state at nearly every stage of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, a non-profit reproductive care provider and a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist, sued the Governor of Missouri, the state Attorney General, the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, the President of the State Medical Board, and the Director of the Department of H…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turner v. Safley

4:81-00891 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 1981

In 1981, prisoners in Missouri brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri challenging the constitutionality of Department of Corrections regulations relating to inmate marriages and inmate-to-inmate correspondence. These regulations were alleged to violate the prisoners' First Amendment rights and their fundamental human right to enter into a marital relationship. Although the challenged regulations were in effect throughout Missouri, this …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Parton v. White

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

Filed Date: May 11, 1981

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. …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Green v. Caspari

4:84-cv-01743 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 27, 1984

Closed Date: 1997

On July 27, 1984, inmates at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center 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 alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding and lack of medical care.On June 13, 1986, the parties entered into a consent decree, which stated that the corrections officials were to set aside sixteen single-occupancy c…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Picon v. Morris

2:84-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 1984

Closed Date: 1989

On August 31, 1984, prisoners at the Missouri Training Center for Men 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 class action was the product of three cases that were immediately consolidated. (Capraro v. Morris and Harris v. Morris) The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by the use of emergency segregation cells at the prison. On Ja…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Madden v. Kemna

5:89-cv-06092 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 1989

Closed Date: 1991

On October 16, 1989, prisoners of the state of Colorado filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Missouri Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. This case was consolidated with a similar case filed on November 15, 1989, by another set of prisoners of the state of Colorado. The prisoners had been transferred to the Western Missouri Correctional Center pursuant to a contract between the two states. They alleged that they had been un…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Clonce v. Richardson

6:73-cv-00373 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 20, 1973

In the early 1970's, prisoners of the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Missouri Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The case incorporated a large number of cases filed to challenge prisoner transfer and retention in the START program at the facility. Although some of the cases were originally commenced pro se, the plaintiffs were ultimately represented by the …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Burks v. Walsh

2:75-00149 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 8, 1975

Inmates of the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, brought a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri under 42 U.S.C. §1983 alleging that they were confined under conditions and subjected to practices that deprived them of constitutional rights, including the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process. The plaintiff class was represented by the Americ…