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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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Brown v. City of Corinth

1:17-cv-00204 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2017

Closed Date: July 6, 2021

This was a case about excessive fines and fees. Plaintiffs were private citizens of Corinth, MS bringing a class action complaint against the City of Corinth and Municipal Court Judge John C. Ross. The action was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on December 5, 2017. Plaintiffs are represented by Southern Poverty Law Center and MacArthur Justice Center. The action was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201 (The Declaratory Relief Act), and …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lang v. Taylor

4:20-cv-00030 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about conditions in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, MS (Parchman). Parchman is Mississippi's only maximum security prison and houses over 2,600 prisoners. Parchman has long had staffing shortages, leading to what the complaint calls "abhorrend conditions, abuse and constant violence, inadequate health care and mental health care, and overuse of isolation." The case is a "sister case" to, and was eventually consolidated with, Amos v. Hall, (N.D. Miss 4:20-cv-00007)…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Currier

3:12-cv-00436 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 27, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2019

This is a case challenging Mississippi’s House Bill 1390, which was passed in April 2012 and required all physicians associated with an abortion facility to (1) have admitting privileges at a local hospital and (2) be board-certified or eligible in obstetrics and gynecology. Several Mississippi legislators commented publicly that the purpose of the law was to end abortion in the state. On June 27, 2012, Jackson Whole Women’s Health, Mississippi’s sole abortion provider, along with one of its ph…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jackson Women's Inc. v. Amy

3:04-cv-00495 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 29, 2004

Closed Date: June 20, 2005

This case challenged a Mississippi law requiring that second-trimester abortions be performed in hospitals or ambulatory surgical centers. On June 29, 2004, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, an abortion provider, filed this lawsuit in the Southern District of Mississippi on behalf of itself and its patients. The Clinic sued the Mississippi State Department of Health, Hinds County, and the state of Mississippi under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Represented by the Center …
POLICING
Brown v. Madison County

3:17-cv-00347 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

On May 8, 2017, ten residents of Madison County filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued Madison County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, filing both class action-based and individual-based claims. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center, sought declaratory and injunctive relief as well as monetary relief and attorneys’ fees. The case was assigned to District Judge William H. Barbour, Jr. In their …
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
United States v. Mississippi

3:16-cv-00622 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 11, 2016 , the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the Southern District of Mississippi. The DOJ sued the State of Mississippi under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). The DOJ asked the court to enjoin the State of Mississippi from discriminating against adults with mental illness and from failing to provide them with appropriate integrated c…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of the Reginald P. White Nursing Facility, MS

Never Filed | No Court

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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Four Mississippi Prisons

No Court

Filed Date: 2020

Case Ongoing

On February 5, 2020, the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division announced an investigation pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) into conditions in four Mississippi prisons: the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman), Southern Mississippi Correctional Institute, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, and the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility. The Justice Department stated that it will investigate whether "the Mississippi Department of Correctio…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
DOJ Investigation of Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility

No Court

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2010

On October 25, 2010, the Special Litigation Section of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division announced that it was commencing an investigation into the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility (“Walnut Grove”) in Mississippi (“the State”). Walnut Grove was a 1,500 bed prison that housed children and men aged 13 to 22 in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). According to the DOJ report, the population of Walnut Grove more than tripled between 2001 and…