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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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Parham v. Watson

3:20-cv-00572 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Aug. 27, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 20, 2020

NOTE: This case was tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. For more information, see their tracker. This is a case brought by voting rights organizations and individuals because of the health risks of absentee voting regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 27, 2020, the League of Women Voters Mississippi, Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP, and three individuals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of M…
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 …
PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Four Mississippi Prisons

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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…