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NDN Collective v. Retsel Corporation

5:22-cv-05027 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a hotel and bar that plaintiffs alleged refused to serve Native Americans, committing intentional race discrimination.  On March 23, 2022, an individual who is Native American and NDN Collective, a non-profit that educates, funds, and organizes people "engaged in Native American issues," filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. Their case sought class action status for a class of all Native Americans who have or will visit the Grand Ga…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota v. Daugaard

4:11-cv-04071 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of South Dakota. According to the plaintiffs, South Dakota H.B. 1217 sought to restrict women's access to abortion services in South Dakota by (1) imposing what was at the time the longest mandatory delay in the country; (2) forcing every woman who sought an abortion to disclose and discuss private personal and medical information with an unlicensed, non-medical organization opposed to her decision; (3) requiring physicians to enga…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Estes v. Hughes County

3:20-cv-03013 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: July 17, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed in 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota by the estate of a diabetic Native American man who died as a pretrial detainee in the custody of the Hughes County Jail. The estate, represented by private counsel, brought claims for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs, failure to provide adequate medical care, race discrimination, and violations of state law. The lawsuit -- brought against Hughes County and various individual employees…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Native American Council of Tribes v. Solem

4:81-cv-04088 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: June 1, 1981

Closed Date: 1983

On June 1, 1981, Native American inmates (members of the class defined in Crowe v. Erickson, No. 72-4101, # PC-SD-0002) filed suit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against prison wardens. The plaintiff class sought enforcement of the settlement agreement entered in the Crowe case on May 4, 1977. The same day, the District Court (Judge Fred J. Nichol) denied the plaintiffs an injunction and dismissed the action saying that the complaint did not allege a consti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Wabasha v. Solem

4:79-cv-04064 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: May 21, 1979

Closed Date: 1991

On May 21, 1979, Native American inmates confined in the Adjustment Center at the South Dakota Penitentiary filed a class action lawsuit under 42 USC 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against the warden of the Penitentiary. Plaintiffs alleged that conditions of confinement violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The complaint also alleged that confinement and transfer procedures violated their Fifth Amendment rights as well as the Fourteenth Amend…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Walker v. Barnett

4:20-cv-04059 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 10/15/2020, Plaintiff started circulating petition to be on ballot for US Senate, but because of Covid-19, social distancing recommendations, and lack of alternative ways to circulate the petition by the Secretary of State and unknown federal employyes, he files a pro se civil suit against the US, the unknown federal emplo…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Christina A. v. Bloomberg

4:00-cv-04036 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2000

Closed Date: 2003

On February 24, 2000, juvenile inmates at the South Dakota State Training School at Plankinton filed a civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400-1487 in the United States District Court, District of South Dakota, Southern Division, challenging conditions of confinement at the facility. Plaintiffs alleged numerous constitutional violations which included the following: (1) improper and punitive restraint methods; (2) l…
EDUCATION
Antoine v. Winner School District

3:06-cv-03007 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 27, 2006

Closed Date: June 6, 2017

Plaintiffs, minor students, filed this class action lawsuit on March 27, 2006, against Winner School District and three of its administrators in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. Plaintiffs, who were Native American, alleged that employees of the School District engaged in a pattern or practice of intentional racial discrimination with the purpose of pushing Native American students out of the school system. Specifically, plaintiffs alleged that the School District disci…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Custer Youth Correctional Center, Custer, South Dakota

No Court Case | No Court

Filed Date: 2002

Closed Date: 2004

Pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, and the pattern or practice provision of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") conducted an investigation of conditions at the Custer Youth Correctional Center in South Dakota. The investigation resulted in a "findings letter" being sent to the state's governor on December 19, 2002. The letter observed that DOJ had notified t…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
DOJ Investigation of South Dakota Use of Nursing Facilities to Serve Individuals with Disabilities

No Court

Filed Date: May 2, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 1, 2016, the U.S. Justice Department released a letter reporting the findings of an investigation into South Dakota’s system of care for persons with disabilities. The report found that South Dakota unnecessarily relied on nursing facilities to provide services to people with disabilities, in violation of the community integration mandate of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C. The ADA and the Olmstead ruling required states to ma…