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JAIL CONDITIONS
Edge v. DeKalb County

4:91-cv-00308 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1991

Closed Date: 1997

On February 8, 1991, inmates in the DeKalb County Jail in Alabama filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the county and corrections officials alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement. The defendants filed a third-party complaint against the Alabama Department of Corrections alleging that they were responsible for the alleged unconstitutional conditions because the jail's inmates were mostly state pri…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Albro v. County of Onondaga

5:85-cv-01425 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 1985

Closed Date: 1997

On October 25, 1985, pretrial detainees and inmates in the Onondaga County Jail in New York filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York against both the county and the state seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to reduce the jail population to levels that would insure the inmates were not being held in unconstitutional conditions. The inmates were represented by Syracuse University Law Clinic. On November 22, 1985, th…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Wuori v. Concannon

1:75-cv-00080 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: July 3, 1975

On July 3, 1975, seven residents of Pineland Center, a state institution for individuals with mental disabilities, filed this putativeclass action lawsuit in the Southern District of Maine on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated—a class defined as “all present and future residents of Pineland whose needs for care, education, training and therapy in a humane and healthful physical and psychological environment are unmet.” The plaintiffs sued the Pineland Center under 42 U.S.C. 198…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roe v. Fauver

3:88-cv-01225 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 11, 1988

Closed Date: 1998

On March 11, 1988, plaintiff, a female New Jersey inmate, filed a lawsuit, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Rehabilitation Act, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, challenging her segregation and confinement in the St. Francis Medical Center due to her AIDS diagnosis. Plaintiff was represented by attorneys of the Public Advocate/Public Defender, Department of the Public Advocate for New Jersey and sought declaratory and injunctive relief.In her initial complaint, pla…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Langley v. Coughlin

1:84-cv-05431 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 31, 1984

On July 31, 1984, female inmates at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the New York State Department of Corrections and several individual defendants (including the Unit Chief, the Chief of Mental Hygiene, the Superintendent of BHCF, the Fire Safety Officer, and the Deputy Superintendent for Programs) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Prisoners' Legal Services of New Yo…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Skinner v. Uphoff

2:02-cv-00033 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2002

On February 15, 2002, inmates at Wyoming State Prison filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming against the director of the Wyoming Department of Correction and prison officers and administrators. The class consisted of all those who were or would be inmates at the Wyoming State Prison. The ACLU and private counsel represented the class. The plaintiffs sought damages and injunctive relief, alleging that the policies and practic…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Dixon v. Weinberger

1:74-cv-00285 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 8, 1986

Closed Date: March 30, 2014

In 1974, patients confined at the Federal Mental Institution (FMI) in the District of Columbia filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed under the Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act (HMIA), 21 D.C. Code §501, against the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Mental Health Law Project, asked the court for a declaration of the following: 1) that they had a right to…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Hood

1:03-cv-02320 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2003

Closed Date: 2006

On November 20, 2003, Plaintiff Mark Jordan, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum 2 facility in Florence, Colorado ("Florence ADX"), commenced this action in the U.S. District Court for Colorado on November 20, 2003, seeking declaratory relief, injunctive relief and damages arising out of alleged violations of his First and Fifth Amendment rights.Plaintiff claimed that his rights were being violated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons by enforcing 28 C.F.R. § 540.71(…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. ST. MICHAEL HOSPITAL of FRANCISCAN SISTERS, MILWAU

2:96-cv-01428 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1996

Closed Date: July 8, 1998

The EEOC's Milwaukee district office sued St. Michael Hospital of Franciscan Sisters, Milwaukee, Inc., a Milwaukee hospital, on December 16, 1996 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The EEOC's complaint is unavailable; however the causes of action are described in the court's opinion deciding the hospital's motion for partial summary judgment, filed in June 1997, and the hospital's motion foe summary judgment, filed in August 1997. The EEOC alleged that the hospi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Health Food Associates, Inc.

5:05-cv-01058 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2005

Closed Date: Feb. 8, 2007

The Oklahoma City office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, against Health Food Associates, Inc. The complaint, filed in September 2005, alleged disability discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; specifically that Defendant refused to hire the charging party because she was disabled and failed to reasonably accommodate her. Both Defendant and the EEOC moved for summary judgment in August 2006 and …