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JAIL CONDITIONS
Gonzales v. Moreno

4:88-00029 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 1988

Closed Date: Nov. 1, 1989

In 1987 and 1988, the district court for the District of Nebraska (Judge David L. Piester) consolidated several section 1983 claims against Scotts Bluff County Jail in Gering, Nebraska. The issues presented to the court included conditions of the showers, group recreation, exercise equipment, the ventilation system at the jail, and monitoring inmates' telephone calls. The Court (Judge David L. Piester) concluded that plaintiffs failed to meet their burden of proof concerning monitoring of tel…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Moore v. Janing

8:72-00223 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: April 12, 1972

Closed Date: Dec. 29, 1976

In 1972, plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society of Omaha-Council Bluffs filed a class action suit on behalf of all present and future pretrial detainees of the Douglas County Jail in Omaha, Nebraska. The Court for the District of Nebraska (Judge Robert Denney) held that due to substantial remodeling of the courthouse jail, many of plaintiffs' issues were moot. The Court (Judge Robert Denney) went on to address issues regarding living conditions at the interim jail, recreation and ex…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Horacek v. Exon

4:72-cv-00299 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 1972

Closed Date: 1984

On September 28, 1972, parents of residents with intellectual disabilities of the Beatrice State Home brought a civil rights class action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for Nebraska, alleging that the physical conditions, care, treatment and training provided at the Beatrice State Home did not meet constitutional standards. Plaintiffs maintained that less restrictive community alternatives were available which would provide them adequate care, treatment, education and t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Flemming v. Clarke

4:93-cv-03262 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 1993

Closed Date: 1994

On 08/10/1993, inmates at the Lincoln Correctional Center filed a Section 1983 class action suit, in the District of Nebraska, pro se, against officials of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Plaintiffs complained of inadequate; kitchen and laundry facilities, medical staff, law library and legal services, and mental health facilities. Plaintiffs also complained of overcrowding and understaffing.The District Court (Judge David L. Piester) granted plaintiffs' motions to proceed i…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Indian Inmates of the Nebraska Penitentiary v. Vitek

4:72-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: April 12, 1972

On 04/12/1972, Indian inmates at the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex filed a Section 1983 class action suit, pro se, in the District of Nebraska against officials of the Nebraska Department of Corrections. Plaintiffs claimed deprivations of rights secured to them under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, plaintiffs claimed that officials refused to permit an Indian Culture Club; that access to Indian religion was denied to them; and that they were discriminated against …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rust v. Gunter

4:84-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 1984

On 10/24/1984, death row inmates at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, represented by private counsel, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of Nebraska against officials of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Plaintiffs complained of inadequate access to the law library, legal services, exercise, and visitation rights.The case went to trial in July 1986, but settled prior to the conclusion of the trial. The District Court (Judge Warren K. Urbom) entered the conse…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McDonnell v. Wolff

4:72-cv-01722 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: 1972

Inmates at the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, represented by private counsel, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of Nebraska, against officials of the Nebraska State Prison system. Plaintiffs complained of limitations on their access to the law library, legal services, and visitation with the inmate legal assistant. Plaintiffs also complained that disciplinary proceedings at the Complex were conducted without regard for procedural or substantive due process and t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sell v. Parratt

4:74-cv-00063 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: April 15, 1974

Closed Date: 1977

In 1974, inmates of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex filed a Section 1983 lawsuit in the District of Nebraska, against officials of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had confiscated money from them as a punitive measure without due process of law. In July 1975, the District Court (Judge Warren K. Urbom) granted plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment. Defendants appealed. On appeal, plaintiffs were represented by a law profes…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Braasch v. Gunter

4:83-00459 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: 1983

In 1983, male prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of Nebraska against officials of the Nebraska Department of Corrections. Plaintiffs complained of defendants' policies and practices allowing female correctional staff to view male prisoners in the nude or in various states of undress. Braasch v. Gunter was consolidated with Nielson v. Gunter for trial in April 1985. In the June 1985 decision, the Magistrate Judge David L. Pieste…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jensen v. Gunter

4:87-cv-00607 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 1987

Closed Date: 2007

On 12/01/1987, inmates at the Nebraska State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 class action suit, pro se, in the District of Nebraska against officials of the Nebraska Department of Corrections. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants' practice of double celling constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment and that the penitentiary's policy relating to inmate liability for contraband violated the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause. Prior to an evidentiary hearin…