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NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of the Reginald P. White Nursing Facility, MS

3:04-cv-00933 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 24, 2010

Pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") conducted an investigation of conditions at the Reginald P. White Nursing Facility ("RWNF"), a public nursing home facility in Mississippi, evidently operated by one of the state's counties. The investigation resulted in a findings letter being sent to the governor of Mississippi on May 20, 2003. The letter stated that in August 2002, D…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Reed v. Pitts Farms Partnership

4:21-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

On September 8, 2021, six Black American farm workers sued their employer, Pitts Farms Partnership in the US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Plaintiffs were represented by the Mississippi Center for Justice and Southern Migrant Legal Services. Pitts Farms hired white South African workers through a visa program sponsored by the U.S. federal government allowing foreign agricultural workers to be employed in the United States, so long as the employer treated foreign and d…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Salinas-Rodriguez v. Alpha Services, Inc.

3:05-cv-00440 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 18, 2005

Closed Date: May 19, 2008

On July 18, 2005, a group of migrant forestry workers admitted to the U.S. under the H-2B foreign worker program filed suit against their employer Alpha Services, L.L.C., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219) and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1871). The plaintiffs alleged that Alpha and its officers failed to pay the plaintiffs the statutor…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
White v. State Board of Election Commissioners

4:22-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the racial makeup of the districts by which Mississippi Supreme Court justices are elected. On April 25, 2022, a group of four Black citizens and civic leaders filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners and the state of Mississippi, alleging that the districts used to elect state Supreme Court justices are discriminatory against Black voters in violation of t…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
BELUE v. WAYNE FARMS, LLC

2:07-cv-01004 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2007

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2010

This case was transferred from the Northern District of Alabama and is a later development of the case EE-AL-0119.On October 18, 2006, several current and former employees of the defendant's Albertville, Alabama facility filed a lawsuit against the company under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Middle Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, brought this class action seeking …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
CODING IN PROCESS
Williams v. James

2:04-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 13, 2004

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2004

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) Named plaintiff, a developmentally disabled child incarcerated in one of Mississippi's juvenile prisons, filed suit against the prison's administrator, the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services and the state's Director of the Division of Youth Services in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The suit alleged that the state had created a series of obstacles to incarcerated children tr…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Dobbs

3:18-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

In this case challenging Mississippi House Bill 1510 (HB 1510), a state law that banned abortions after 15 weeks (months before viability), the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, overruled Roe v. Wade, and held there is no constitutional protection for abortion rights.   On March 19, 2018, the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi, and Jackson Women's Health Organization's Medical Director filed the case, represented by the Center for Reproductive R…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United State Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Those staff in turn failed to su…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.H. v. Hinds County

3:11-cv-00327 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

On June 1, 2011, a child imprisoned at the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against Hinds County, Mississippi under 42 U.S.C § 1983. The plaintiff, represented by attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleged that the county's confinement policies and practices violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, the plaintiff alleged excessive confinement in cells, inadequate menta…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Harness v. Hosemann

3:17-cv-00791 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2017

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about a Jim Crow era Mississippi law restricting voting rights for certain convicted felons. On August 24, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the law, claiming that the law was no longer racist in effect, despite its racist intentions when first enacted.