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Case Name	Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America	PC-DC-0019
Docket / Court	1:00-cv-00293-GK ( D.D.C. )
State/Territory	District of Columbia
Case Type(s)	Prison Conditions
Attorney Organization	ACLU National (all projects) ACLU National Prison Project Washington Lawyers' Committee
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Issues and Causes of Action

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Issues

Constitutional Clause

Due Process

Freedom of speech/association

Defendant-type

Corrections

General

Access to lawyers or judicial system

Phone

Plaintiff Type

Private Plaintiff

Type of Facility

Non-government for profit

Causes of Action

42 U.S.C. § 1983

Case Details

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Defendant(s)	AT&T Corrections Corporation of America Evercom Systems, Inc. Globbal Telecommunications Link Microwave Communications, Inc.-Worldcom Communications Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
Plaintiff Description	Inmates incarcerated at prison facilities operated by Corrections Corporation of America, Inc., as well as family members, legal counsel, and other recipients of telephone calls from inmates at CCA facilities
Indexed Lawyer Organizations	ACLU National (all projects) ACLU National Prison Project Washington Lawyers' Committee
Class action status sought	Yes
Class action status granted	No
Filed Pro Se	No
Prevailing Party	Defendant
Public Int. Lawyer	Yes
Nature of Relief	None
Source of Relief	None
Filed	02/16/2000
Case Ongoing	Yes

Related Cases

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Case Listing	PC-DC-0027 : In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services / Wright Petition I (No Court) PC-DC-0028 : In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services / Wright Petition II (No Court) PC-WA-0015 : Judd v. AT&T (State Court) PC-DC-0030 : State of Oklahoma v. FCC (No Court) PC-DC-0031 : Securus Technologies v. FCC (No Court)

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	See this case at CourtListener.com (May provide additional documents and, for active cases, real-time alerts)
	Martha Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America (FCC Petition) Center for Constitutional Rights Date: Aug. 8, 2013 By: Center for Constitutional Rights [ Detail ] [ External Link ]

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Court	Docket(s)
D.D.C. 09/04/2019	1:00-cv-00293-GK PC-DC-0019-9000.pdf \| Detail Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]
	General Documents
D.D.C. 08/22/2001	Order PC-DC-0019-0002.pdf \| Detail
D.D.C. 10/08/2003	Memorandum Opinion PC-DC-0019-0003.pdf \| Detail
State Trial Court 03/10/2004	Comments of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs PC-DC-0019-0001.pdf \| Detail
D.D.C. 04/30/2015	Order [ECF# 177] PC-DC-0019-0005.pdf \| Detail Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]
D.D.C. 01/21/2016	Order [ECF# 189] (2016 WL 264907) PC-DC-0019-0004.pdf \| WESTLAW \| Detail Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]
D.D.C. 01/21/2016	Amended Complaint [ECF# 191] PC-DC-0019-0006.pdf \| Detail Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]

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Judges	Kessler, Gladys (D.D.C.) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-0002 \| PC-DC-0019-0003 \| PC-DC-0019-0004 \| PC-DC-0019-0005 \| PC-DC-0019-9000
Plaintiff's Lawyers	Braun, Robert A. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Brown, Benjamin D. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Fornaci, Phillip Jerome (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Golden, Deborah Maxine (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-0006 \| PC-DC-0019-9000 Handley, Matthew K. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Seliger, Stephen G (Illinois) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-0006 \| PC-DC-0019-9000 Sennett, Marie-Ann (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-0006 \| PC-DC-0019-9000
Defendant's Lawyers	Baratz, Michael Jeremy (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Bernard, Catherine A. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Burack, Michael Leonard (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Charnes, Adam Howard (North Carolina) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Cosson, David (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Epstein, Anthony Charles (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Frankel, Jonathon W. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Geenen, Michael J. (California) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Geise, Elizabeth Runyan (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Hopson, Mark Daniel (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Hughes, Kristen Grim (Virginia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Joyce, Stephanie A. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Littell, Susan A. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Muench, John E. (Illinois) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Orcutt, Anne Marie (Arizona) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Palmer, Debra Ann (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Ridley, Eileen Regina (California) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Roman, Steven John (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Royal, Vaughn W. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Steinmetz, Kyle J. (Illinois) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Struck, Daniel Patrick (Arizona) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Trenga, Anthony John (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Varon, Jay Norman (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Volpe, Frank R. (New York) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000 Woodall, Kevin Francis (California) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-9000
Other Lawyers	Alexander, Elizabeth R. (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-0001 Boggs, Roderic Van Oesen (District of Columbia) show/hide docs PC-DC-0019-0001

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