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POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
DOJ Investigation of Providence Police Department

No Court

Filed Date: 2002

Closed Date: March 26, 2008

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DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
DOJ Investigation of Rhode Island Community-Based Services

No Court

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This investigation concerned allegations that Rhode Island provided an inadequate amount of community-based Medicaid service in violation of the ADA, resulting in an unnecessary number of persons being placed in residential treatment facilities.
PUBLIC HOUSING
Project B.A.S.I.C. v. Kemp

1:89-00248 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: April 20, 1989

In April 1989, Project B.A.S.I.C. ("BASIC"), a Rhode Island tenant-advocacy organization, filed a lawsuit against the State of Rhode Island under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the United States Housing Act, the federal Fair Housing Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by race-based mismanagement of public housing units in the city of Providence, and they asked the…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Goldin v. Restrepo

1:20-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: June 16, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2020

This case arose out of the 2020 election in Rhode Island. On June 16, 2020, candidates for the Rhode Island Senate ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island alleging that Rhode Island state law that required potential candidates to engage in-person solicitation and receipt of signatures and an in-person witness violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs sued…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause Rhode Island v. Gorbea

1:20-cv-00318 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 23, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 24, 2021

Rhode Island state law required mail voters to have either two lay witnesses or one notary sign their mail-in ballot envelopes. On July 23, 2020, the League of Women Voters, Common Cause Rhode Island, and three Rhode Island residents concerned about their heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island challenging this state law as applied to 2020 elections in Rhode Island. The plaintiffs, represented by c…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Brown University

No Docket | No Court

Filed Date: 2021

Case Ongoing

At some point unknown to the Clearinghouse, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island commenced an investigation and compliance review into allegations that Brown University violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The investigation responded to a complaint regarding the university’s policies and procedures for readmission of undergraduate students seeking to return from a medical leave of absence. The investigation was j…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Silvia v. Vose

1:85-cv-00110 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 1985

Closed Date: 2003

In 1985, James Silvia filed a pro se complaint in the U.S. District Court District of Rhode Island (Providence), alleging violation of various of his civil rights due to his confinement at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) in Cranston, Rhode Island. It was assigned case number 85-cv-00110-L. On May 21, 1991, Plaintiff Charles Hockenhull (who was also a plaintiff in the Silvia case) filed a similar pro se civil rights case in the U.S. District Court District of Rhode Island (Providence)…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ben David v. Travisono

1:73-cv-05280 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 25, 1973

In approximately 1973, Rhode Island prison inmates filed a class action lawsuit against Rhode Island prison officials, police, and their agents in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The inmates, represented by private counsel, sought a preliminary restraining order against the officials to protect them from retaliatory conduct for the inmates' participation in a substantive lawsuit against the officials for unconstitutional treatment (see Morris v. Travisono, 310…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Palmigiano v. Baxter

1:72-cv-05053 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1972

Closed Date: 1976

In 1973, a prison inmate brought suit seeking damages and declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 USC § 1983 challenging due process violations in prison disciplinary procedures at Rhode Island's Adult Correctional Institutions (A.C.I.). The inmate had been charged with inciting a disturbance, and though told that the charge might result in an additional prosecution in state courts, was not allowed to have an attorney present at the disciplinary hearing. He was also advised that his silence …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Davidson v. City of Cranston, Rhode Island

1:14-cv-00091 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2016

On February 14, 2014, the ACLU of Rhode Island and several citizens of the City of Cranston filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs sued the City of Cranston under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Prison Policy Initiative, the ACLU, and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs claim that the 2012 Redistricting Plan violated the rights of the plaintiffs to equal representation…