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PRISON CONDITIONS
Chimenti v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-03333 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 12, 2015

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2022

On June 12, 2015, three individuals incarcerated and suffering from complications due to Hepatitis C viral infections filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of the Eighth Amendment, and of Article I § 13 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Represented by private counsel and the PA Institutional Law Project, the plaintiffs alleged that th…
POLICING
Bailey v. City of Philadelphia

2:10-cv-05952 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 2010

Case Ongoing

On November 4, 2010, eight African-American male residents of Philadelphia filled this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia division ("PPD"). The plaintiffs sued the City of Philadelphia and individual police officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Pennsylvania state law. The putative class, represented by the ACLU of Pennsylvania and private attorneys, sought injunctive and compens…
POLICING
Marquez v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

1:19-cv-00599 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 8, 2019

Closed Date: April 18, 2022

This is a case about Pennsylvania state troopers allegedly discriminating against people based on their perceived race, color, ethnicity, or national origin in stopping and detaining them for the purpose of investigating their immigration status. On April 8, 2019, three individuals initially filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania–there were ten total plaintiffs by the time the case settled.  The plaintiffs sued Pennsylvania and individual state tro…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Horne v. Reading

2:05-cv-06334 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 8, 2005

Notes from the NAACP website: On February 27, 2006, the National NAACP and the Reading Branch NAACP joined an employment lawsuit, originally filed on December 8, 2005, against the City of Reading, Pennsylvania. The suit charged the Reading Fire Department with implementing discriminatory recruitment and hiring practices against African Americans and other minorities. Although the City of Reading was 11% Black and 37% Latinx, the Fire Department was virtually all-white. Of the Fire Department's …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Sourovelis v. City of Philadelphia

2:14-cv-04687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2014

Case Ongoing

On Aug. 11, 2014, four individuals filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, and the Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged violations of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, 42 U.S.C. § 1988, and the Declaratory Judgment Act. The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on Nov. 17, 2014.T…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hollihan v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

3:15-cv-00005 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 2, 2015

Closed Date: March 21, 2020

On January 2, 2015, a prisoner in Pennsylvania sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ("PDOC"), several of its employees and administrators in their official and individual capacities, as well as Wexford Health Sources (the provider of medical care in state prisons), in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit was brought under the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for the alleged deprivation of t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zubeda v. Ashcroft

02-02868 | U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2002

Closed Date: Oct. 3, 2003

The Petitioner in this suit was a citizen of Congo, who alleged that she was gang raped and persecuted there as a result of membership in the Bembe tribe. She sought asylum in the U.S., but in February 2, 2001, an Immigration judge found her removable for violating the Immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. §§ 1101 et seq.), because she lied about her immigrant intent when she entered the U.S., as well as using a fraudulent passport. However, the immigration judge ruled that under the U…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania v. Wetzel

1:13-cv-00635 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: March 11, 2013

Closed Date: Jan. 15, 2015

On March 11, 2013, the Disability Rights Network (DRN), a Pennsylvania non-profit, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC). DRN alleged that the PDOC violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in its use of solitary confinement "Restrictive Housing Units" (RHUs). There are no prisoner plaintiffs, and the case is not a class action; DRN has been designated by the Commo…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Reid v. Wetzel

1:18-cv-00176 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2018

Case Ongoing

On January 25, 2018, five Pennsylvania prisoners who had been sentenced to death filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC). Represented by the Abolitionist Law Center, the ACLU National Prison Project, and the ACLU of Pennsylvania, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief along with attorneys’ fees and costs under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs challenged t…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
In re: the Petition of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, Brian McHale, Jeremy Hunsicker, Christopher Aubry, Michael Foundos, and Frederick Leonard, on behalf of all similarly situated individuals

20-00070 | Pennsylvania state supreme court

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

Closed Date: April 3, 2020

On March 30, 2020, the Pennsylvania Prison Society and five incarcerated individuals, represented by the ACLU of Pennsylvania, filed an emergency petition with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Petitioners argued that under state law the Supreme Court had legal authority to reduce jail populations and that extraordinary measures in other states were indicative of the need for jail population reductions. Petitioners urged the Court to instruct all courts in the Commonwealth to immediately order co…