Cases
All of our briefs are linked on their respective case pages. If they are helpful to you as an attorney or pro se litigator, please feel welcome to use them.
In re: Tehum Care Services, Inc.
Corizon is one of the nation’s largest providers of correctional health care services. Facing mounting liability, in part due to lawsuits brought by incarcerated people who received substandard care, the company is attempting to exploit a quirk in Texas Corporate law to declare bankruptcy and avoid paying incarcerated plaintiffs the money they are owed.
Tate v. Harmon
Together with MacArthur Justice Center, RBB has filed an amicus brief in a Fourth Circuit case challenging the dismissal of a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment claims against federal prison staff.
Johnson v. Peterson
Chronic hepatitis C disproportionately affects incarcerated individuals—by recent estimates, HCV is 17 to 23 times more prevalent among prisoners than the general population. Less than 1% of the United States population is incarcerated today, but roughly 30% of all Americans with HCV reside in prison. According to a 2017 meta-analysis, Ohio’s prison population has one of the highest reported rates of HCV infection as measured by antibody prevalence, at a rate of 36% compared to the national average of 18%.
Melnik v. Aranas
Chronic hepatitis C (HCV) kills more Americans than every other infectious disease combined, and even though effective treatments that eliminate HCV in 99% of cases have been available for a number of years, some prison systems deny treatment to most or all of their patients with HCV due simply to the cost of the drugs.
Griffith v. Franklin County
Rights Behind Bars, along with MacArthur Center, represent a coalition of prison rights organizations as amici curiae in support of an eighteen-year old pretrial detainee who experienced severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and multiple seizures prior to proper medical intervention in a Kentucky jail.
Stark v. Lee County
Rights Behind Bars and the National Association for Public Defense filed a brief as amici for a case brought by a detainee who was left in five-point shackles in the backseat of a deputy sheriff’s cruiser returning to jail from a medical appointment when the sheriff chose to respond to a bank robbery and engage in a high-speed chase, causing the detainee to suffer serious injuries.
Herrera v. Cleveland
Rights Behind Bars is amicus counsel for six formerly-incarcerated attorneys with extensive experience litigating prison conditions cases both inside and outside of prison.
Van Wagner v. Faulks
Chronic hepatitis C (HCV) kills more Americans than every other infectious disease combined, and even though effective treatments that eliminate HCV in 99% of cases have been available for a number of years, some prison systems deny treatment to most or all of their patients with HCV due simply to the cost of the drugs.
Ingram v. Kubik
Rights Behind Bars is amicus counsel on behalf of disability rights groups supporting plaintiff who, in midst of a mental health crisis, was body-slammed by a police officer because the officer found him annoying.
Busby v. Bonner
Rights Behind Bars, along with the MacArthur Justice Center and Janet Goode, represents a coalition of prison rights organizations as amici curiae in support of the pretrial detainees at a Tennessee jail where a COVID-19 outbreak occurred after the jail did not take adequate precautions.
Cameron v. Bouchard
Rights Behind Bars represents a coalition of prison rights organizations as amici curiae in support of the detainees at a Michigan jail where a COVID-19 outbreak occurred after the jail did not take adequate precautions.
Troutman v. Louisville MDC
In collaboration with the MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU, Rights Behind Bars represents a coalition of civil rights and human rights organizations as amici curiae in support of the estate of Charles Troutman. Troutman was held in the Louisville Metro Detention Center on a cash bond where he committed suicide.
Woodcock v. Correct Care Solutions, LLC
In collaboration with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison LLP and the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School, Rights Behind Bars filed an amicus brief on behalf of a group of medical organizations and doctors who specialized in correctional or kidney health.
Mann v. Ohio DRC
In collaboration with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison LLP and the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School, Rights Behind Bars filed an amicus brief on behalf of a group of medical organizations and doctors who specialized in correctional or kidney health.