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PRISON CONDITIONS
Dockery v. Epps

3:13-cv-00326 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: May 30, 2013

Case Ongoing

On May 30, 2013, prisoners in the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Mississippi Department of Corrections commissioner, deputy commissioner, and chief medical officer in their official capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the ACLU National Prison Project and the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked the court for declar…
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 States 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 (RDC) 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. Facility staff in turn fa…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jackson Women’s Health Organization v. Dobbs

25CH1:22-CV-00739 | Mississippi state trial court

Filed Date: June 27, 2022

Closed Date: July 19, 2022

On June 27, 2022, three days after the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Dobbs, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization and a licensed physician brought this lawsuit in the Chancery Court of Hinds County, Mississippi First Judicial District (Mississippi state trial court) challenging the state’s Trigger Ban (Miss. Code Ann. § 41–41–45) and Six-Week Ban (Miss. Code Ann. § 41–41–34). The Trigger Ban is a near-total ban on abortion with criminal pen…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Hinds County

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

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can communicate with all individuals in a juvenile detention facility where some individuals with disabilities reside, as well as the substantive conditions in a juvenile detention facility. On June 1, 2011, Disability Rights Mississippi, Mississippi’s P&A, and a putative class of juvenile detention facility residents filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. They filed this lawsuit…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States v. The City of Jackson, Mississippi

3:22-cv-00686 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Nov. 29, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about unsafe public drinking water in Jackson, Mississippi. On November 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed a complaint against the city of Jackson, Mississippi ("the City"), on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The DOJ sued the city of Jackson under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Prior to this lawsuit, in February 2020, the EPA found infrastructure problems indicating t…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
K.L.W. 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 is a lawsuit challenging the attorney visitation policy and legal assistance program at Columbia Training School, a rehabilitative facility for juvenile offenders placed in the custody of the state of Mississippi. The named plaintiff, a developmentally disabled child incarcerated in Columbia, filed a putative class action suit on April 13, 2004 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against the prison's administrator, the Executive Director of the Mississippi D…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Gibbs v. City of Jackson, Mississippi

3:22-cv-00099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Jackson Police Department’s policy known as “ticket, arrest, and tow” (TAT), under which the police department installed a disproportionate number of vehicular roadblock checks in majority Black and low-income neighborhoods, justifying them as necessary for crime control.  On February 23, 2022, individuals who had encountered or were likely to encounter roadblocks established by the Jackson Police Department for purposes of general crime control filed this lawsuit in th…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Wallace v. Mississippi Department of Corrections

3:21-cv-00516 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a putative class action lawsuit about the Mississippi Department of Correction’s (MDOC) alleged failure to provide adequate a) medical healthcare b) mental healthcare and c) accommodations to those with disabilities.  On August 9, 2021, thirty offenders who were in the custody of MDOC and Disability Rights Mississippi, the designated protection and advocacy agency in the state, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued MD…
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…