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JAIL CONDITIONS
Essex Co. Jail Inmates v. Treffinger

2:82-cv-01945 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 10, 1982

Closed Date: 2007

On June 10, 1982, inmates of the Essex County Jail [ECJ] filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement. On October 14, 1982, the District Court (Judge Harold A. Ackerman) approved and entered a Consent Decree which specified changes to be taken at the ECJ in the areas of overcrowding, exercise, inmate visits, food service, medical care, fire prevention and other general con…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Smith & Rudd v. Norris

5:93-cv-00732 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 1993

Closed Date: July 28, 1997

This lawsuit was the result of a stabbing incident at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections. An inmate stabbed two other inmates with a hobby knife. Ernest Smith was injured in the attack and John Stewart died as a result. Smith filed a lawsuit on December 6, 1993 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against the Arkansas Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking damages for his injuries. He claimed that the prison condi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Coleman v. Brown

2:90-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 1990

NOTE: All the documents in this case relating to the prison overcrowding proceedings, which led to imposition of a statewide prison population cap, affirmed by the Supreme Court, are presented in a related case record, Plata v. Newsom. On April 23, 1990, incarcerated persons with mental illnesses in California state prisons filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs sued California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitatio…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Green v. Peters

1:71-cv-01403 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 11, 1971

Closed Date: June 27, 2002

In 1971, an Illinois inmate filed suit in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against state prison officials. Plaintiff sued under section 1983 for violations of his First Amendment right to access various published materials. Following a denial of cross-motions for summary judgment, the parties adopted a consent decree. This agreement prohibited the defendants from restricting the inmates' access to certain non-legal publications. At a hearing in 1975, Judge Frank McGa…
POLICING
U.S. v. State of New Jersey

3:99-cv-05970 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 1999

Closed Date: 2009

On December 12, 1999, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and its Division of State Police under 42 U.S.C. § 14141 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The DOJ alleged that the defendants engaged in an unconstitutional pattern or practice of performing vehicle stops and searches of African American motorists traveling on New Jersey roadways, including the New Jersey Turnpike.Simultaneously wit…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch

3:06-cv-02371 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2006

Closed Date: Sept. 2, 2010

This case is one of four lawsuits filed against the City of Farmers Branch, Texas, to challenge the City's anti-immigrant housing law, Ordinance 2892 (subsequently repealed and reenacted in slightly altered form as Ordinance 2903). See Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch, Barrietos v. City of Farmers Branch and Ramos v. City of Farmers Branch. This case and two others filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch and Barrientos v. City of F…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Connecticut v. Northern Correctional Institution

3:03-cv-01352 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 2003

Closed Date: 2008

On August 6, 2003, the State of Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities (OPA) filed a § 1983 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Connecticut against the Connecticut Department of Corrections and two prisons it operated. Represented by a coalition of attorneys from the local ACLU, ACLU's National Prison Project, local legal aid organizations, the plaintiffs alleged that prisoners and detainees with mental illness who were confined at CDC's Northern Correctio…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT CENTER

3:05-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 28, 2005

Closed Date: Dec. 1, 2008

In July 2005, the Birmingham District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Productivity Improvement Center, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the charging party, a female employee, was subjected to a sexually hostile work environment by her supervisor. The charging party intervened in the suit in February…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. TELESERVICES MARKETING CORPORATION

4:04-cv-00075 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 3, 2004

Closed Date: 2006

Originally filed in the U.S. District for the Northern District of Texas, the Dallas office of the EEOC transferred this case against Teleservices Marketing Corporation and General Telemarketing International, Inc. to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in March 2004. The amended complaint alleged discrimination based on national origin in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. More specifically, the claimant alleged the defendants terminated his employmen…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. WESTLODGE HOSPITALITY, INC. dba EL PASO TRAVELODGE

3:00-cv-00297 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2000

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2002

In September 2000, the EEOC's El Paso office filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas against Westlodge Hospitality, Inc. and WW Lodging Limited, LLC, both d/b/a El Past Travelodge-City Center, alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Specifically, the EEOC alleged that the defendants terminated the complainant from his position as a night watchman in a hotel because he has spina bifida and requires a wheelchair for mobility. The …