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Nov. 14, 2009 |
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Coles v. City of Oakland
Case Category: Policing
Trial Docket: 3:03-cv-02961 (N.D. Cal.)
PN-CA-0018
Summary/Abstract not yet on record
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CASE ADDITIONS |
Nov. 13, 2009 |
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Brantley v. Maxwell-Jolly
Case Category: Disability Rights-Pub. Accom.
Trial Docket: 09-3798 (N.D. Cal.)
DR-CA-0023
California recipients of Adult Day Health Care services brought this class action to enjoin California from reducing or eliminating the ADHC program, which would put the plaintiffs at risk of institutionalization. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the plaintiff class a preliminary injunction in September 2009, forbidding California to modify it’s adult Day Health Care program until an appropriate alternative could be provided to prevent institutionalization of individuals in the plaintiffs’ class. |
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CASE ADDITIONS |
Nov. 13, 2009 |
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Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network v. City of Los Angeles
Case Category: Speech and Religious Freedom
Trial Docket: 2:07-cv-03072-AHM-FFM (C.D. Cal.)
FA-CA-0002
This class action was brought by protesters at a 2007 immigration rally in Los Angeles who were victims of excessive force by police officers trying to disperse the rally. The 2009 settlement awarded the plaintiffs damages of over $12 million and attorneys’ fees of $3.7 million, as well as both structural reform of the LAPD. The structural reform placed limitations on the LAPD’s ability to interfere with nonviolent demonstrations, including issuing a declaration of unlawful assembly before any using force to break up the demonstration. The order also restricted the methods of disbursement the LAPD can use, including limitations on the use of less lethal weapons, batons, motorcycles and low-flying helicopters that would interfere with the demonstration. Additionally, the order stipulated that all LAPD officers receive annual training on the proper crowd control and disbursement techniques. |
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CASE ADDITIONS |
Nov. 13, 2009 |
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Trujillo v. City of Ontario
Case Category: Policing
Trial Docket: 5:04-cv-01015-VAP-PJW (C.D. Cal.)
PN-CA-0017
This case concerns a video surveillance camera that was set up in 2004 in the Ontario (Cal.) Police Department locker room in response to a flashlight being stolen from one of the lockers. Police officers who used the locker room during the time of the surveillance filed a class action suit for invasion of privacy and unlawful search and seizure. The officers ultimately reached a settlement agreement with the Department, which agreed to pay $1.5 million to them and $1.2 million to their lawyers. |
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CASE ADDITIONS |
Oct. 19, 2009 |
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Young v. County of Cook
Case Category: Jail Conditions
Trial Docket: 1:06-cv-00552 (N.D. Ill.)
JC-IL-0009
On January 30, 2006, a Chicago civil rights law firm filed a class action civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The complaint challenged the Cook County Sheriff’s blanket policy of requiring a strip and body cavity search of every detainee that entered the Cook County Jail for booking/intake, irrespective of the nature of the charge against the detainee and of whether there was any reasonable suspicion that the detainee was concealing weapons or contraband.
On August 13, 2009, the case went to trial, and the following day, the jury reached a verdict. They found in favor of the plaintiffs, and held that county jail employees violated the law in the manner in which they conducted strip searches of detainees.
As of October 20, 2009, the issue of damages is yet to be determined, and the case is ongoing. |
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CASE ADDITIONS |
Oct. 19, 2009 |
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Martinez v. Astrue
Case Category: Public Benefits & Services
Trial Docket: 08-4735 (N.D. Cal.)
PB-CA-0002
On October 15, 2008, public interest attorneys filed a national class action lawsuit against the Social Security Administration (SSA) for revoking the retirement and disability benefits of over 100,000 poor, elderly and disabled Americans under an arbitrary and unlawful benefit suspension policy. Under a 1996 law, SSA must suspend the benefits of people who are "fleeing to avoid prosecution" for a felony. The plaintiffs alleged that thousands of elderly and disabled Americans who are not "wanted," and indeed, who may have been completely misidentified, have been caught up in the system that SSA has used to implement the law.
On March 30, 2009, the parties reached a settlement in the case. Under the terms of the settlement, the defendants agreed to reinstate the payments of those who had been wrongfully denied their benefits. |
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CASE ADDITIONS |
Oct. 19, 2009 |
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Acks v. City and County of Denver
Case Category: Speech and Religious Freedom
Trial Docket: 09-CV-8007 (State Court)
FA-CO-0001
On August 19, 2009, the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of people who had been detained by police during a political demonstration during the Democratic National Convention. The lawsuit asserts that Denver carried out an arbitrary and groundless mass arrest, without probable cause, of 96 individuals, knowing that the group included numerous innocent persons, including the eight individual Plaintiffs in this case. The lawsuit seeks damages for the eight Plaintiffs who were falsely arrested in violation of their rights under the First and Fourth Amendments. Pursuant to a Colorado statute that requires jailers to allow arrestees to meet with attorneys, C.R.S. § 16-3-404, the ACLU lawyers also sued on behalf of all individuals who were ensnared in the mass arrest on 15th Street and detained at Denver’s detention facility. |
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