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Wilkins v. Aberdeen Enterprises

4:17-cv-00606 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Nov. 2, 2017

Closed Date: March 12, 2021

On November 2, 2017, individuals facing arrest because of their inability to pay their court fines and costs filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The plaintiffs sued the Oklahoma Sheriff’s Association, every Oklahoma county sheriff, and Aberdeen Enterprises, a private collections company. The plaintiffs sued under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Oklahoma state law. The plai…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
South Wind Women's Center LLC v. Stitt

5:20-cv-00277 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 8, 2020

This is a case challenging an Oklahoma executive order banning abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 30, 2020, South Wind Women's Center LLC, a health care facility providing reproductive care including abortions, a physician operating an abortion clinic in the state, and Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, Inc., filed this lawsuit, on behalf of themselves, their staff, and their patients, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.  The plai…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Feenstra v. Sigler

19-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case alleged that the Oklahoma court system unconstitutionally imposed fines at sentencing without consideration for an individual's ability to pay the fines assessed. The plaintiffs in this case further alleged that the courts violated their due process and equal protection rights, as well as their right to counsel, based on the "cost docket" procedures and the possible penalty of incarceration for failure to pay outstanding fines. The plaintiffs were three indigent individuals who were f…
EDUCATION
Black Emergency Response Team v. O'Connor

5:21-cv-01022 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2021

Case Ongoing

On October 19, 2022, the plaintiffs, who included both individuals and organizations, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. The individuals were Oklahoma students and teachers and the organizations included the Oklahoma NAACP, the University of Oklahoma Chapter of American Association of University Professors, and an Oklahoma University student organization, Black Emergency Response Team. Collectively, they challenged a 2021 Oklahoma state law known…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hill v. Anderson

6:73-00087 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: April 5, 1973

Closed Date: 1974

In 1973, a black inmate in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. The plaintiff, representing himself, asked the court for money damages, injunctive relief and that he be transferred to a different institution, alleging that defendants, acting under color of law, deprived him of certain of his civil rights in connection with his confinement. Specifica…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Parga v. Tulsa County

4:18-cv-00298 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: June 6, 2018

Case Ongoing

Individuals incarcerated in the Tulsa jail sued Tulsa County, the Tulsa County Sheriff, fifteen Special Judges and a district court judge in challenging the constitutionality of the county's wealth-based pretrial detention system. On June 6, 2018, the four plaintiffs, represented by Civil Rights Corps, filed this class-action lawsuit in the Northern District of Oklahoma. The case was assigned to Judge Claire Eagan. The plaintiffs brought claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgeme…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Raven v. Hess

6:77-00165 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 27, 1977

Closed Date: 1978

In 1977, a Native American incarcerated in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary ("OSP") filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, against the Warden of OSP. The plaintiff alleged that practices and procedures at OSP denied his right to practice his Native American culture and religion, in violation of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. On August 4, 1978, the defendant and other officials issued a new section to the operations of t…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
CODING IN PROCESS
Oklahoma v. Biden

5:21-cv-01069 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 2021

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This case was brought in November 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, by the State of Oklahoma against the Biden Administration.  It challenged the administration's requirement that federal contractors mandate their employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, arguing that this requirement violated (among other things) the Procurement Act, the Administrative Procedures Act, separation of powers, and the rel…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Terry D. v. Rader & Oklahoma

5:78-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 1978

Closed Date: 1998

On January 4, 1978, Plaintiffs, represented by Legal Aid of Western Oklahoma, Inc., the National Juvenile Law Center and the Public Defender of Oklahoma County, filed this § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court Western District of Oklahoma challenging the conditions of confinement at the juvenile treatment centers of the State of Oklahoma. Plaintiffs sought injunctive and declaratory relief, as well as class certification. The Complaint alleged that plaintiffs were subjected …
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Harris v. Champion

4:90-cv-00448 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 22, 1990

Closed Date: 1997

This action arose from a habeas petition filed on May 22, 1990 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. After he was convicted of forcible sodomy, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and sentenced to 15 years in state prison, the petitioner invoked his right to appeal and requested counsel on September 29, 1988. Due to understaffing/ underfunding, the Oklahoma Appellate Public Defender did not immediately file that appeal. Instead, on May 11, 1989, the public …