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Alma v. Noah's Ark Processors, LLC

4:20-cv-03141 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2020

Closed Date: March 1, 2021

This is a case about a meat processing plant that refused to implement basic COVID-19 precautions such as physical distancing, face masks, sick leave, and onsite testing, despite it being a uniquely susceptible environment for COVID-19. On November 23, 2020, three former employees at Noah’s Ark meat processing plant and a doctor filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. The plaintiffs sued Noah’s Ark Processors under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Carhart v. Ashcroft

4:03-cv-03385 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2003

Closed Date: July 26, 2007

This is a case challenging the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Act, which Congress passed in 2003. Congress passed this law three years after the Supreme Court in Stenberg v. Carhart struck down a similar Nebraska statute prohibiting intact dilation and evacuation (intact D&E). 530 U.S. 914. Intact D&E is a procedure in which fetal death occurs after the physician partially delivers the fetus, in contrast with the more common type of D&E where fetal death occurs prior to extract…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stenberg v. Carhart

4:97-cv-03205 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: June 12, 1997

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Nebraska. On June 12, 1997, a doctor who performed abortions filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska. The plaintiff sued the Attorney General of the state of Nebraska, the Director of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure, the County Attorney for Sarpy County, Nebraska, and the Chief Medical Officer for Nebraska. Represented by The Center for Reproductive…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sabata v. Nebraska Department of Correctional Services

4:17-cv-03107 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 1, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This is a longstanding class action filed over conditions in the Nebraska state prison system. In addition to the underlying litigation, the plaintiffs filed an emergency motion on April 10, 2020 seeking disclosure of the defendants' plan for the prevention, management, and treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic. The motion was denied on June 8. The case was voluntarily dismissed on December 1, 2020. On August 15, 2017, eleven prisoners filed a putative class action complaint agai…
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
McClelland v. Sigler

71-cv-01666 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: March 1, 1970

In 1970, two black inmates at the Nebraska Penal and Corrections Complex filed a Section 1983 lawsuit, pro se, in the District of Nebraska against officials of the Nebraska Department of Corrections. Defendants maintained a separate cell house for white inmates who objected to living with black inmates. Plaintiffs alleged that the conditions in the whites only cell house were superior to those of the other racially integrated cell houses, denying them their civil rights as granted to them by …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Klinger v. Nebraska Department of Correctional Services

4:88-cv-00399 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: July 20, 1988

Closed Date: Feb. 25, 1997

On July 20, 1988, women incarcerated at the Nebraska Center for Women (NCW) filed a grievance with the prison's superintendent alleging that they received unequal treatment in the programs and services as compared to men incarcerated at various other prisons around Nebraska. Specifically, the plaintiffs claims revolved around access to courts, visitation opportunities, recreation time, education and vocational training, pay, library facilities, mental health programs, and general health care. W…