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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
United Utah Party v. Cox

2:17-cv-00655 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 21, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2017

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PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ ADA Investigation of Utah Department of Corrections

No Court

The Special Litigation section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (“DOJ”) initiated an investigation into the Utah Department of Corrections (“UDOC”) upon receipt of a complaint. The complaint was filed pursuant to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), alleging that UDOC failed to ensure effective communication for inmates with hearing disabilities, thereby denying them participation in educational, vocational, religious and other programs on the basis of…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Foote v. Spiegel

2:94-cv-00754 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 1994

Closed Date: Feb. 16, 2001

A motorist brought this suit under § 1983 against Utah State Troopers, corrections officers, and the state of Utah on August 1, 1994 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The motorist alleged that the officers violated her Fourth Amendment rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when they strip searched after a traffic stop. The motorist sought damages for these alleged violations. She was represented by McCullough, Jones & Ivins and the American Civil Liberties Unio…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Balderas v. Matheson

2:76-cv-00253 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 1976

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)According to the ACLU National Prison Project 1995 Status Report on state prisons,"The state penitentiary is operating under a consent decree on overcrowding and some conditions. Balderas v. Matheson (formerly Nielsan v. Matheson), No. C-76-253 (D. Utah)."
CHILD WELFARE
David C. v. Leavitt

2:93-cv-00206 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 1993

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2008

This lawsuit was filed by the National Center of Youth Law on February 2, 1993, against the Utah Department of Human Services (DHS), in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The class action complaint named as the plaintiff class all children in the custody of DHS, whether in a shelter care facility, foster family home, group home, or institutional care; and all children who known to DHS by virtue of a report of child abuse. It addressed systemic issues encompassing the shortfalls …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Cottrell v. Kaysville City, Utah

1:91-cv-00095 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1991

Closed Date: Nov. 28, 1995

This is a case about whether a 1990 arrest for driving under the influence and subsequent strip search were legal. The plaintiff, a woman who had been arrested on drunk driving charges, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Utah on October 7, 1991. The case was assigned to District Judge Dee Benson. The plaintiff sued the City of Kaysville, Utah, one of its police officers, and Davis County and two sheriff's deputies, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for wrongful arre…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baker v. Holden

2:86-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: April 28, 1986

Closed Date: 2004

On April 28, 1986, inmates in the Wasatch Unit of the Utah State Prison filed a civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement, including particularly the practice of double celling or double bunking in certain areas of the Wasatch Unit within the prison. The case was originally styled Baker v. Deland, 86-C-361G. The case was referred to Magistrate Judge Boyce and it was certified as a c…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Milonas v. Williams

2:78-cv-00352 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 1978

On September 21, 1978, students at the Provo Canyon School for Boys filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah against the owners and operators of Provo Canyon School, and various agencies, officers, and employees of the State of Utah. The Juvenile Justice Legal Advocacy Project and private counsel represented the class. The plaintiffs sought damages along with injunctive and declaratory relief. At the Provo Canyon School for Boys stu…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Utah Coalition of La Raza v. Herbert

2:11-cv-00401 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: May 3, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2015

On May 3, 2011, a coalition of immigrant rights groups and individual immigrants filed this class action lawsuit against the State of Utah in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, challenging the state's immigration-enforcement law, House Bill 497 (HB 497). HB 497 was a severe, anti-immigrant law that criminalized everyday activities, such as driving an undocumented immigrant to the store and authorized police to stop and detail an individual simply to verify his o…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Evans v. Utah

2:14-cv-00055 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2014

Closed Date: Nov. 24, 2014

In Kitchen v. Herbert, on December 20, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah found Utah's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. About 1,300 same-sex marriages took place in Utah between that order and January 6, 2014, when the Supreme Court granted the state an emergency stay of order in Kitchen. Although these marriages were recognized as legal by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the State declined to recognize them. Instead, on January 8th, 2014, the Governor's offic…