New online resource - the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
Monday, November 27, 2006
- Organization: Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis has launched a new website, the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse (http://clearinghouse.wustl.edu).
The Clearinghouse collects documents and data about civil rights injunctive cases (currently about a thousand of them and growing) in selected case categories. The categories posted include:
* conditions in a variety of closed institutions (jails, juvenile institutions, prisons, mental health facilities, mental retardation facilities, and nursing homes),
* child welfare,
* election/voting rights,
* immigration,
* police profiling, other policing,
* public housing desegregation, and
* school desegregation.
For each included case, they have attempted to gather many of the crucial documents, including: the trial court docket sheet, the complaint, any decrees issued by courts or agreed to by parties, and any opinions. They also provide at least some information about each case: where, when, what was involved, who the lawyers were, who the judges were, outcome, etc.
For an article about using the Clearinghouse, see
