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Case Name	Upshaw v. Alameda County	JC-CA-0133
Docket / Court	3:18-cv-07814 ( N.D. Cal. )
State/Territory	California
Case Type(s)	Jail Conditions
Case Summary	Case summary not yet recorded compress summary

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Issues and Causes of Action

Issues

Affected Gender

Female

Constitutional Clause

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Defendant-type

Corrections

General

Grievance Procedures

Sanitation / living conditions

Solitary confinement/Supermax (conditions or process)

Totality of conditions

Plaintiff Type

Private Plaintiff

Type of Facility

Government-run

Causes of Action

42 U.S.C. § 1983
Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201

Case Details


Defendant(s)	Alameda County Alameda County Sheriff's Office
Plaintiff Description	Three female pretrial detainees housed at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, in Alameda County and under the authority of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office on behalf of a class of all women who are now, or will be in the future, incarcerated in the Alameda County Jails.
Class action status sought	Yes
Class action status granted	Pending
Filed Pro Se	No
Prevailing Party	None Yet / None
Public Int. Lawyer	No
Nature of Relief	Declaratory Judgment Attorneys fees Damages Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
Source of Relief	None yet
Filing Year	2018
Case Ongoing	Yes

Documents

Docket(s)

3:18-cv-07814 (N.D. Cal.)
JC-CA-0133-9000.pdf | Detail
Date: 01/31/2019
Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]

General Documents

Complaint [ECF# 1]

JC-CA-0133-0001.pdf | Detail
Date: 12/31/2018
Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]

People


Judges	Donato, James (N.D. Cal.) JC-CA-0133-9000
Plaintiff's Lawyers	Cunningham, Dennis (California) JC-CA-0133-0001 \| JC-CA-0133-9000
	Huang, Yolanda (California) JC-CA-0133-0001 \| JC-CA-0133-9000
Defendant's Lawyers	Thomas, Gregory B. (California) JC-CA-0133-9000