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Coleman v. Newsom

2:90-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 1990

Case Ongoing

NOTE: All the documents in this case relating to the prison overcrowding proceedings, which led to imposition of a statewide prison population cap, affirmed by the Supreme Court, are presented in a related case record, Plata v. Newsom. On April 23, 1990, incarcerated persons with mental illnesses in California state prisons filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs sued California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitatio…

Judgment for Plaintiff

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Jensen v. Thornell

2:12-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 22, 2012

Case Ongoing

This case is a direct descendant of Gamez v. Ryan, which was dismissed with prejudice on March 21, 2012. There the district court judge determined that the sudden expansion of the case to include thirteen new plaintiffs and class treatment in the third amended complaint was not within the court's contemplation when it permitted the plaintiff to file a third amended complaint. On March 22, 2012, fourteen Arizona prisoners brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Distr…
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Mays v. County of Sacramento

2:18-cv-02081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 31, 2018

Case Ongoing

On July 31, 2018, prisoners in the County of Sacramento jail system, with the assistance of counsel from Disability Rights California, Prison Law Office, and Cooley LLP, filed this suit against the County of Sacramento. The plaintiffs alleged a series of problems with the County of Sacramento Jail system, including understaffing, prolonged and harmful isolation, lack of minimally adequate mental health care, lack of minimally adequate medical care, and discrimination on the basis of disability.…
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Clark v. California

3:96-cv-01486 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 22, 1996

Case Ongoing

On April 22, 1996, two prisoners with developmental disabilities, incarcerated within facilities run by the California Department of Corrections (CDC), filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Rehabilitation Act (RA), against the State of California, its Governor, CDC and prison officials. The plaintiffs, represented by the Prison Law Office, the Disability Rights an…
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Murray v. Santa Barbara

2:17-cv-08805 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2017

Case Ongoing

On December 6, 2017, several prisoners of the Santa Barbara County Jail (SBCJ) in pre-trial detention filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Santa Barbara and the Sheriff's Office under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29…

Case Is Ongoing

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Armstrong v. Newsom

4:94-cv-02307 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 1994

Case Ongoing

On June 29, 1994, eleven California state prisoners and parolees with disabilities filed this lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections—now the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”)—in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California. Represented by the Prison Law Office, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the CDCR had discriminated against them and all others similarly situat…
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Gray v. County of Riverside

5:13-cv-00444 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2013

Case Ongoing

On May 8, 2013, three prisoners in Riverside County jails filed this class-action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Riverside (California) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the access to both physical and mental healthcare was so deficient that it violated the Eighth Amendment proscription of cruel and unusual punishment, violated prisoners' Fourteenth Amendment rights, and constituted deliberate indiffer…
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Torres v. Milusnic

2:20-cv-04450 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

On May 16, 2020, five individuals filed a putative class action against Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S federal prisons, for immediate relief on behalf of a proposed class of all current and future people in post-conviction custody at Lompoc. The plaintiffs alleged that the Warden of Lompoc and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed to adequately treat infected prisoners and implement reasonable health and safety measur…
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Plata v. Newsom

4:01-cv-01351 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2001

Case Ongoing

NOTE: Documents relating to the prison overcrowding proceedings in this case under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which led to imposition of a statewide prison population cap, affirmed by the Supreme Court, are presented in a different case record. See "related cases" below. Summary: On April 5, 2001, nine male California incarcerated persons filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, against officials of the California Department of C…
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Wilson v. Ponce

2:20-cv-04451 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Case Ongoing

On May 16, 2020, three individuals filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, seeking to represent a class of all medically vulnerable persons who are, or will be, incarcerated at the Terminal Island Correctional Institution. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, the Prison Law Office, and private counsel, brought this action against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the warden of Termin…
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