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De Leon-Granados v. Eller And Sons Trees, Inc.

1:05-cv-01473 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 5, 2005

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2012

On June 5, 2005, attorneys with the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Virginia Justice Center for Farm and Immigrant Workers filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a group of over 1500 migrant workers in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against their former employer, Eller and Sons Trees, Inc. Plaintiffs, who were from Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, were admitted to the U.S. under the H-2B temporary farm worker program. The plaint…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
BELUE v. WAYNE FARMS, LLC

2:07-cv-01004 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2007

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2010

This case was transferred from the Northern District of Alabama and is a later development of the case EE-AL-0119.On October 18, 2006, several current and former employees of the defendant's Albertville, Alabama facility filed a lawsuit against the company under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Middle Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, brought this class action seeking …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Kramer v. New Orleans Saints

2:01-cv-02451 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 2001

Closed Date: 2004

On August 13, 2001, two female employees of the New Orleans Saints Organization filed a lawsuit against the New Orleans Saints, its owner, and two of its partner corporations. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged various violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). One of the two plaintiffs also alleged violations of the Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA). The p…
EDUCATION
Eccleston v. Pine Bush Central School District

7:12-cv-02303 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 28, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 28th, 2012, five former and current Jewish students filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the Pine Bush School District. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for declarative judgment, injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the school district had responded with deliberate indifference to the rampant anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment directed at the plainti…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Stephen C. v. Bureau of Indian Education

3:17-cv-08004 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, several former and current students at Havasupai Elementary School, a Bureau of Indian Education school located on the Havasupai Reservation in Arizona, and Native American Disability Law Center (“NADLC”), filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona alleging that they were denied educational opportunities guaranteed to them by federal law. The plaintiffs, who proceeded individually, were represented by attorneys from NADLC, Public Counsel, the ACLU…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United State Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Those staff in turn failed to su…
CHILD WELFARE
Dwayne B. v. Snyder

2:06-cv-13548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2006

Case Ongoing

A class of children in foster care custody in Michigan, represented by Children's Rights, filed this class action suit against the state of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on August 8, 2006. They alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments; federal law including the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq.; and state law. The compl…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Pepe's Mexican Restaurant

2:02-cv-00355 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2002

Closed Date: April 7, 2009

The EEOC's Indianapolis district office sued SAC Griffith, Inc., an Indiana corporation d/b/a Pepe's Mexican Restaurant, on August 30, 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The EEOC's complaint is unavailable, however the consent decree, filed on April 7, 2004, describes the EEOC's causes of action. The EEOC alleged that SAC violated Title VII when it discriminated against the intervenor employees, who intervened in two groups in September 2002 and August 2003,…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Fitness First

0:05-cv-61580 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2005

Closed Date: 2010

The Miami District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against PH Fitness, Inc., which owns Fitness First, in September of 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The suit was based on an unlawful termination of the complainant for being a female and being pregnant. She had just received a promotion when she told her boss that she was pregnant, after which she was quickly terminated. The complainant intervened and her complaint was dismissed twice due to failu…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Saravia v. Sessions

3:17-cv-03615 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case, filed on June 22, 2017, was brought by a parent on behalf of her minor child for wrongful incarceration by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The complaint alleged that the child, A.H., was released into the plaintiff's custody but that a few years later, ICE arrested and detained him without cause. Represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and the private law firm Cooley LLP, the plaintiff argued that the government violated th…