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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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cody v. Hillard

4:80-cv-04039 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 7, 1980

Closed Date: 2002

On March 7, 1980, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota filed a class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the South Dakota Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and by East River Legal Services, asked the court for class certification and declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional righ…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Crowe v. Erickson

4:72-cv-04101 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1972

On November 21, 1972, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 suit in the District Court for the Southern Division of South Dakota against the warden, prison officials, and the Governor. Plaintiffs complained of punishment for violations of prison rules without due process of law, prison officials reading and censoring incoming and outgoing mail, poor medical treatment, inadequate religious and cultural protections, inadequate work release and employment programs, a…
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) 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 constitutional violati…
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
Emery v. Hunt

3:00-cv-03008 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2003

On February 14, 2000, Native American registered voters and residents of Dewey County, in District 28 of the South Dakota legislature, filed a lawsuit against South Dakota in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the dissolution of two special legislative districts in 1996 violated 42 U.S.C. §1973. Specifi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
U.S.A. v. South Dakota

3:00-cv-03015 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 28, 2000

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2002

This is a case about the protection of the voting rights of Native Americans in state legislature elections.  South Dakota has 35 legislative districts, each of which elects one senator and two representatives.  Before the 1990 census, the two representatives were elected at large to represent the entire legislative district.  The legislature redistricted in 1991 "in order to protect minority voting rights”: District 28 in the north central part of the state was split into two single-member Hou…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party v. Hazeltine

3:00-cv-03021 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: May 4, 2000

Closed Date: 2000

On May 4, 2000, the Libertarian Party of South Dakota and several concerned citizens filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The plaintiffs sued South Dakota, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, they asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the State misinterpreted state election law when it denied Libertarian Party candidate Brian Lerohl’s request to be added to the primary election ballot. Specificall…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Mitchell Temporary And Dakota Pork Industries

4:03-cv-04222 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

The EEOC's Denver district office sued Dakota Pork Industries, Inc., a South Dakota meat processing facility, and Mitchell Temporary, a South Dakota employment agency, on September 29, 2003 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The EEOC's complaint alleged that Mitchell and Dakota violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when they discriminated against the intervenor, who intervened in April 2004, based on a disability (deafness) when they failed to hire her and inst…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Sami Martinez v. North Central Supply, Inc.

5:03-cv-05091 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 2003

Closed Date: 2010

In September 2003, the EEOC filed this suit against North Central Supply, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the defendant terminated the charging party, a female employee, because she was pregnant. The charging party intervened in the suit in November 2003. After some discovery and scheduling orders, the EEOC and the defendant settled in Septembe…