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Case Name	Ross v. Gossett	PC-IL-0033
Docket / Court	3:15-cv-00309 ( S.D. Ill. )
State/Territory	Illinois
Case Type(s)	Prison Conditions
Special Collection	Strip Search Cases
Attorney Organization	Loevy & Loevy Uptown People's Law Center
Case Summary	Case summary not yet recorded compress summary

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Issues and Causes of Action

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Issues

Constitutional Clause

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Defendant-type

Corrections

Law-enforcement

General

Assault/abuse by staff

Conditions of confinement

Disciplinary procedures

Excessive force

Grievance Procedures

Prison Rape Elimination Act

Restraints : physical

Search policies

Sex w/ staff; sexual harassment by staff

Strip search policy

Plaintiff Type

Private Plaintiff

Type of Facility

Government-run

Causes of Action

42 U.S.C. § 1983
State law

Case Details

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Defendant(s)	Illinois Department of Corrections
Plaintiff Description	Individual plaintiff and putative class of all individuals housed at Illinois River, Big Muddy River, Lawrence, and Menard who were subjected to the 2014 shakedowns, and all prisoners confined to those facilities presently or who may be so confined in the future.
Indexed Lawyer Organizations	Loevy & Loevy Uptown People's Law Center
Class action status sought	Yes
Class action status granted	Pending
Filed Pro Se	No
Prevailing Party	None Yet / None
Public Int. Lawyer	Yes
Nature of Relief	None yet
Source of Relief	None yet
Filing Year	2015
Case Ongoing	Yes

Additional Resources

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	Jail Strip-Search Cases: Patterns and Participants http://law.duke.edu/journals/lcp Date: Spring 2008 By: Margo Schlanger (Washington University in St. Louis Faculty) Citation: 71 Law & Contemp. Problems 65 (2008) [ Detail ] [ External Link ]
	Civil Rights Injunctions Over Time: A Case Study of Jail and Prison Court Orders N.Y.U. Law Review Date: May 2006 By: Margo Schlanger (Washington University Faculty) Citation: 81 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 550 (2006) [ Detail ] [ PDF ] [ External Link ]
	Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons Book Date: Jan. 1, 1998 By: Malcolm M. Feeley & Edward Rubin (UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law & Vanderbilt School of Law Faculty Faculty) Citation: (1998) [ Detail ]

Documents

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Docket(s)

3:15-cv-309 (S.D. Ill.)
PC-IL-0033-9000.pdf | Detail
Date: 10/29/2018
Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]

General Documents

Order [ECF# 76] (S.D. Ill.) PC-IL-0033-0002.pdf \| Detail Date: 01/28/2015 Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]
Complaint [ECF# 1] PC-IL-0033-0001.pdf \| External Link \| Detail Date: 03/19/2015 Source: Plaintiffs' counsel
Second Amended Complaint [ECF# 197] PC-IL-0033-0003.pdf \| Detail Date: 10/31/2016 Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]

People

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Judges	Williams, Stephen C. Court not on record [Magistrate] PC-IL-0033-9000 Yandle, Staci Michelle (S.D. Ill.) PC-IL-0033-0002 \| PC-IL-0033-9000
Plaintiff's Lawyers	Brown, Ruth Z. (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-0003 \| PC-IL-0033-9000
	Crosley, Adair (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Grady, Sarah (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-0001 \| PC-IL-0033-0003 \| PC-IL-0033-9000
	Heppell, Sam (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Kanovitz, Michael I. (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-0001 \| PC-IL-0033-0003 \| PC-IL-0033-9000
	Loevy, Jonathan I. (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-0001 \| PC-IL-0033-0003 \| PC-IL-0033-9000
	Mazur, Elizabeth N (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Mills, Alan S. (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-0001 \| PC-IL-0033-0003 \| PC-IL-0033-9000
	Rauscher, Scott (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Roche, Katherine A. (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Schult, Nicole (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-0001 \| PC-IL-0033-0003 \| PC-IL-0033-9000
	Tracy, Johanna Louise (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
Defendant's Lawyers	Alfonso, Nicholas Vincent (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Cook, Lisa A. (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Doran, James Patrick (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Fanning, Robert L. (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Fletcher, Matthew T. (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	McNaught, Karen L. (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Powell, Michael Martin (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Price, Susannah J. (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Steimel, Emma Dorothy (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Taborga, Alan (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000
	Weigand, Jason Joseph (Illinois) PC-IL-0033-9000

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