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JAIL CONDITIONS
Tetzlaff v. Swinney

3:87-cv-00202 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 29, 1987

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 1989

In 1987, plaintiff filed a section 1983 pro se complaint against the Sheriff of Washoe County, Nevada. Plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief and monetary damages for violations of his constitutional rights. In 1987, the district court for the District of Nevada (Chief Judge Edward C. Reed, Jr.) granted defendant's motion to dismiss in part because res judicata barred plaintiff's claim for declaratory and injunctive relief based on a prior class action concerning jail conditions t…
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Nassau County Sheriff's Dept.

2:02-cv-02382 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 22, 2002

Closed Date: May 5, 2008

On April 19, 1999, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) notified the Nassau County Correctional Center (NCCC) in New York of its intent to investigate conditions at the jail to determine whether they were unconstitutional. The DOJ conducted this investigation under the authority of 42 U.S.C. § 1997, also known as the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). On September 11, 2000, the DOJ issued a findings letter containing evidence that NCCC unconstitutionally physically abused …
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Tennessee

2:96-cv-02312 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 15, 1996

On March 15, 1996, the United States filed a lawsuit under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, against the State of Tennessee, the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (DMH/MR) and the Memphis Mental Health Institute (MMHI), in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Memphis Division. The government asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants were depriving patients of MMHI of consti…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Horacek v. Exon

4:72-cv-00299 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 1972

Closed Date: 1984

On September 28, 1972, parents of residents with intellectual disabilities of the Beatrice State Home brought a civil rights class action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for Nebraska, alleging that the physical conditions, care, treatment and training provided at the Beatrice State Home did not meet constitutional standards. Plaintiffs maintained that less restrictive community alternatives were available which would provide them adequate care, treatment, education and t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Clutchette v. Procunier

3:70-02497 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 1970

Closed Date: 1985

California prisoners filed a civil rights suit on November 20, 1970 under 42 USC Sec. 1983 for declaratory and injunctive relief (and in the case of one inmate, for damages as well) challenging the sufficiency of disciplinary procedures at San Quentin Correctional Facility. Among other things, inmates charged with offenses that could be referred to the District Attorney for prosecution as a felony, were informed that their request for counsel would be granted only when the inmate was questione…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lecclier v. Bayh

1:90-cv-01460 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 30, 1990

Closed Date: July 15, 1993

Plaintiffs filed a class action suit on behalf of all current and future inmates confined at the Reception and Diagnostic Center (RDC) of the Indiana Department of Corrections asserting that the conditions of the facility were below standards of human decency in violation of the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The complaint was filed in the Southern District of Indiana on June 13, 1990 by attorneys with the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU National Prison Project. Plaintiff…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Austin v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2:90-cv-07497 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 1990

Closed Date: 1995

On November 27, 1990, prisoners from various Pennsylvania prisons filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, who were represented in part by the Disabilities Law Project and the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that their constitutional rig…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind v. O'Neill

1:02-cv-00864 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 3, 2002

In 2002, the American Council of the Blind and two individuals with visual impairments filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer of the United States under § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs challenged the Treasury Department's failure to make paper banknotes that are independently usable by persons who are blind or visually impaired and sought declarat…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. DAIMLER-CHRYSLER CORPORATION

2:01-cv-73521 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 2001

Closed Date: Aug. 8, 2002

The Detroit District Office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, against Daimler Chrysler Corporation, an international automobile manufacturer. The complaint, filed in September 2001, alleged religious discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that Defendant did not provide a reasonable accommodation to the religious practices of the charging party and discharged he…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. WELBORNE AUTOMOTIVE, INC. (FKA NISSAN OF HICKORY)

5:04-cv-00207 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2004

Closed Date: 2012

On December 30, 2004, the Charlotte and Norfolk offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against Welborne Automotive, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. The EEOC alleged that the defendants, a car dealership, had violated the rights of the complainant by firing her because she was female.On August 1, 2005, the complainant intervened as a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The case went to mediation in May of 2006, b…