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CHILD WELFARE
David B. v. McDonald

1:79-cv-01662 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 25, 1979

Closed Date: 1998

On April 25, 1979, a class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, on behalf of a class of children in Cook County, Illinois, who were either wards of the juvenile court or had petitions for wardship pending, and had emotional, physical, or mental disabilities. The plaintiffs represented by the Cook County Public Guardian alleged that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCSF), the Illinois Department of Mental Health and D…
CHILD WELFARE
Marisol A. v. Giuliani

1:95-cv-10533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1995

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2018

This federal class action was brought by children in the custody of the New York City Child Welfare Administration ("CWA"), and children who, while not in the custody of CWA, are or will be at risk of abuse or neglect and whose status is known or should be known to CWA. It was filed on December 13, 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights Inc., Lawyers for Children, and private counsel, sought class certification, …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Adams & U.S. v. Mathis

1:74-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 1974

Closed Date: 1997

On November 19, 1974, an inmate of the Houston County Jail in Alabama filed this case, pro se, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, seeking class action status. He proceeded under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against State officials responsible for the jail, challenging many aspects of conditions--overcrowding, poor sanitation, inadequate nutrition, medical care, and recreational opportunities. The case was assigned to Judge Frank Johnson. The United States became involve…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Edge v. DeKalb County

4:91-cv-00308 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1991

Closed Date: 1997

On February 8, 1991, inmates in the DeKalb County Jail in Alabama filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the county and corrections officials alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement. The defendants filed a third-party complaint against the Alabama Department of Corrections alleging that they were responsible for the alleged unconstitutional conditions because the jail's inmates were mostly state pri…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Rooks & U.S. v. Herring

1:92-cv-00316 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 23, 1992

Closed Date: 1998

On April 23, 1992, inmates at the Conecuh County Jail ("Jail") in Evergreen, Alabama filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Alabama Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the Southern Center For Human Rights, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages for the alleged inhumane conditions of confinement they were subjected to at the Jail. The case wa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harrelson v. Elmore County

2:94-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 3, 1994

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 1995

A paraplegic inmate filed a lawsuit on May 3, 1994 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the First, Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments, various state laws, and a consent decree (in some unnamed case, entered 11/10/1992). The plaintiff alleged that he was denied use of his wheelchair, was not provided with toilet or shower facilities designed for disabled persons, was no…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Loyd v. Alabama Department of Corrections

5:92-cv-00058 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 1992

On January 9, 1992, inmates of the Jackson County Jail in Scottsboro, Alabama, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the Department of Corrections (DOC) challenging conditions at the jail. The plaintiffs were represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights. On November 7, 1994, the court (Judge Edwin Nelson) entered an order approving and adopting a consent decree and on January 12, 1995, the co…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Mobile County Jail Inmates v. Purvis

1:76-cv-00416 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1976

Closed Date: 1985

In 1976, inmates at the Mobile County Jail in Alabama brought a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama against the Mobile County Commissioners under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that their conditions of confinement, specifically overcrowding, violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Following litigation, on April 24, 1981, the court found that the conditions violated the inmates' due process rights and were also in violation of the Ei…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Terry v. Hill

4:01-cv-00458 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: July 7, 2001

On July 7, 2001, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas filed suit in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Director of the Arkansas Division of Mental Health Services and the Sheriff of Sebastian County Jail, for violation of an inmate's due process rights to mental illness treatment of a pretrial detainee with a history of serious mental illness. The inmate was held in pretrial detention without a date set for trial while hi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hill v. Pulaski County

4:79-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 1979

Closed Date: 2000

On October 25, 1979, inmates of the Pulaski County Jail in Arkansas filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas challenging the conditions of that facility. In 1985, the parties entered into a consent decree that established population limits for the jail and required the sheriff of Pulaski County to notify the Court if anyone attempted to contravene the agreement.  On November 10, 1988, the sheriff filed notice wi…