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JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Santiago v. Philadelphia

2:74-02589 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1974

In October of 1974, juvenile inmates at the Philadelphia Youth Study Center (YSC) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), 2000d against the City of Philadelphia and local Family Court judges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented by Community Legal Services, Inc. of Philadelphia, and private attorneys, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, and punitive damages for those members of the class that su…
POLICING
Wilkins v. Maryland State Police

1:93-cv-00468 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 1993

Closed Date: 2008

On February 12, 1993, Robert L. Wilkins, an African-American attorney, and three of his relatives filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against the State of Maryland and the Maryland State Police [MSP] under 42 U.S.C. §1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, alleged that defendants violated their constitutional rights by stopping, detaining and searching them pursuant to a racial profile used by defendants as part …
POLICING
Gloucester County (New Jersey Turnpike) Police Stop Cases

No. MER-L-002687-96 | New Jersey state trial court

Filed Date: 1996

In 1996, the NAACP and several individuals filed a class action lawsuit in New Jersey state court against the New Jersey State Police alleging unlawful employment practices in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq., and state law. The gravamen (essence) of the plaintiffs' complaint as amended was that Black and Latino applicants for employment to the New Jersey State Police were subjected to discrimination in the recruitment, application, and hiring p…
POLICING
In re Cincinnati Policing

1:99-cv-03170 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 30, 1999

Closed Date: 2009

On April 30, 1999, Bomani Tyehimba, an African-American male, filed a lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio alleging that he was subjected to a racially discriminatory stop, search and detention by officers of the Cincinnati Police Department [CPD]. That suit was initially styled Tyehimba v. City of Cincinnati, (99-cv-00317-SJD-MRM). Tyehimba was represented by private counsel and counsel the ACLU.On December 13, 2000, Tyehimba move…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

5:51-cv-04316 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 1951

Closed Date: July 27, 1999

This is the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court announced in 1954 that segregated schools were inherently unequal, and in 1955 required school districts to desegregate "with all deliberate speed." It is the most famous civil rights case in American history. But it also had a specific set of plaintiffs -- schoolchildren in Topeka, Kansas -- and a specific history in its own community. This summary focuses on that history, rather than the broader setting and the Supreme Court jurisprudence. …
PUBLIC HOUSING
NAACP, Boston Chapter v. Boston Housing Authority

1:88-cv-01155 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 14, 1988

This is a case about racially segregated public housing in Boston. On June 14, 1988, the Boston chapter of the NAACP filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiff sued the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), the mayor of Boston, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Development, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981-1983, 3604, 3608; and …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. SHREE LALAJI LLC (t/a BEST WESTERN SALISBURY PLAZA)

1:06-cv-02154 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2006

Closed Date: 2006

On August 8, 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit against Shree Lalaji LLC (trading as Best Western Salisbury Plaza) on behalf of a black employee, who it alleged was subjected to racial epithets and remarks and retaliation, and a class of black employees who were subjected to the racially hostile work environment that accompanied the situation. Specifically, the EEOC alleged that the general manager made racially hostile statements, treated black employees less f…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Burlington Medical Supplies

4:06-cv-00122 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

On September 21, 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought this suit against Burlington Medical Supplies, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under Title VII. While the Clearinghouse does not have a copy of the complaint, a published opinion revealed that the EEOC claimed that a pattern or practice of sexual harassment existed at Burlington, creating a hostile work environment that constituted sex discrimination. Specifically, it claimed t…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Specialty Restaurants Corp.

2:06-cv-06109 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

On September 25, 2006 the EEOC filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of charging party, a female employee alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by defendant Specialty Restaurants Corporation regarding gender, (female) and national origin (Middle Eastern.)Specifically, plaintiff claimed that Middle Eatern women were harassed, based on their gender and national origin and that the company retaiated agains…