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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire, LLC

1:05-cv-05445 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

On September 21, 2005 the Chicago District Office of the EEOC filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire LLC under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The plaintiffs, representing Hispanic and African American employees of Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire LLC, asked the court for injunctive and monetary relief. The plaintiff claimed that African American and Hispanic employees wer…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Kovacevich 5 Farms

1:06-cv-00165 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 1, 2008

On February 13, 2006, the San Francisco District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs sued Kovacevich 5 Farms for violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1946. The EEOC represented six female applicants who alleged that Kovavevich 5 Farms had refused to hire them because of their sex. The plaintiffs sought injunctive relief and financial compensation. On August 23, 2006, the six female applicants filed…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Chatoian v. Marin County, California

3:04-cv-02790 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 12, 2004

Closed Date: 2008

On July 12, 2004, four female arrestees filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the Marin County Sheriff's policies, practices, and customs concerning the use of pre-arraignment strip and visual body cavity searches in Marin County Jails. Plaintiffs, who had been arrested for minor criminal infractions, alleged that officers routinely subjected detainees to strip and visual body cavity searches prior to arraig…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Yakubova v. Chertoff

1:06-cv-03203 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 28, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On June 28, 2006, individuals residing in New York State who properly filed their immigration naturalization papers filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), alleging that the federal government had a custom and practice of failing to grant or deny the plaintiffs' applications for naturalization within 120 days of their initial examinations, and of unlawfully …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Maryland NAACP v. Baltimore City Police Department

1:06-cv-01863 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: June 14, 2006

Closed Date: 2015

This case, Maryland NAACP v. Baltimore City Police Department, 1:06-cv-01863-CCB (D. Md. 2006) was one of three cases filed about the same time alleging mistreatment of persons arrested and taken to Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center ("Central Booking" or "CBIC") for booking and processing. (The other cases were Jones v. Murphy, Case No. 1:05-cv-01287-CCB (D. Md. 2005) and Rodney v. Murphy, 24-C-05004405, filed in Maryland state court.) Central Booking was opened in 1995 as the central…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Todd v. Solano County

2:07-cv-00726 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 16, 2007

Closed Date: 2009

On April 16, 2007, Plaintiff, represented by private attorney Mark E. Merin, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in order to challenge the Sheriff's policies and practices concerning the use of strip and visual body cavity searches in Solano County Jail. Plaintiff, who was arrested on minor criminal charges, complained that he was subsequently strip searched in a group with ten other persons pursuant to a policy under …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Everson v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:00-cv-73133 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: July 12, 2000

Closed Date: 2005

Allegations of sexual abuse and mistreatment of female prisoners have been frequently made against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), especially during the 1990s. The MDOC faced harsh public criticism and two high-profile lawsuits involving sexual misconduct claims of female inmates in that period: Nunn v. Michigan Department of Corrections by a group of female inmates in 1996, and United States v. Michigan (the USA Lawsuit) by the Civil Rights Division of the United States Departme…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Christensen v. Utah State University

1:06-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: May 8, 2006

Closed Date: 2007

On May 8, 2006, twelve deaf Utah State University students filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, against Utah State and its Board of Regents. The case was brought under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, with the Plaintiffs alleging that the Defendants had discriminated against them in many ways, including: denying them access to the…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ptasinska v. U.S. Department of State

1:07-cv-03795 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 6, 2007

Closed Date: Nov. 1, 2007

On July 6, 2007, the plaintiff, a person lawfully present in the United States on a non-immigrant H1-B visa and represented by private counsel, filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and several individual employees of those agencies in their professional capacities regarding a change to the July 2007 Visa Bulletin’s statement about the availability of employment-based immigrant visas f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Mancha v. ICE

1:06-cv-02650 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2006

Closed Date: July 31, 2009

On November 1, 2006, private counsel and attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class-action civil rights suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, challenging a series of raids conducted by federal immigration authorities in Southeast Georgia over the course of at least two weeks in September 2006. Plaintiffs alleged that federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, under the guise of locating suspected undocumented workers who had been e…