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JAIL CONDITIONS
Woodson v. Sully

3:85-cv-03049 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 1985

Closed Date: 2011

On February 27, 1985, prisoners of the Wyandotte County Jail filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys, sued the Board of County Commissioners of Wyandotte County, three individual commissioners, and the Sheriff of Wyandotte County. The plaintiffs challenged the conditions of their confinement. In 1987, the parties negotiated a stipulated consent de…
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
Raines v. State of Florida

4:92-cv-40311 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 1992

Closed Date: Oct. 13, 2004

In 1992, Florida inmates filed a class-action lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act, alleging that they were denied the maximum amount of incentive gain time at Holmes Correctional Institution because they were disabled. Inmates could earn incentive gain time only through security, work and program components, which proved problematic for inmates not able to perform work due to disability. The inmates were represented by the Florida Justice Institute. On March 21, 1997, the U.S. Di…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Inmates of New York with HIV v. Cuomo

9:90-cv-00252 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: March 6, 1990

Closed Date: 2009

On March 6, 1990, a class of inmates infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus ("HIV") filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against the New York Department of Corrections ("DOC") in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, challenging the DOC's delivery of medical, mental health, education, and preventative services. Plaintiffs, who were represented by the Prisoners' Rights Project Legal Aid Society, the New York State Department of Labor, and Prisoners' Leg…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Emery v. Hunt

3:00-cv-03008 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2003

On February 14, 2000, Native American registered voters and residents of Dewey County, in District 28 of the South Dakota legislature, filed a lawsuit against South Dakota in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the dissolution of two special legislative districts in 1996 violated 42 U.S.C. §1973. Specifi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
U.S.A. v. South Dakota

3:00-cv-03015 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 28, 2000

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2002

This is a case about the protection of the voting rights of Native Americans in state legislature elections.  South Dakota has 35 legislative districts, each of which elects one senator and two representatives.  Before the 1990 census, the two representatives were elected at large to represent the entire legislative district.  The legislature redistricted in 1991 "in order to protect minority voting rights”: District 28 in the north central part of the state was split into two single-member Hou…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Roberts v. County of Mahoning

4:03-cv-02329 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2003

Closed Date: May 17, 2010

On November 14, 2003 Ohio inmates filed this class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District Of Ohio, alleging that the conditions of confinement at the Mahoning County Justice Center ("Justice Center") and the Minimum Security Jail ("MSJ") violated their constitutional rights. The plaintiffs alleged that they were subjected severe overcrowding and corresponding deprivations. They sought equitable and declaratory relief.On March 5, 2004, …
POLICING
U.S. v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

3:08-cv-00158 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2008

In March 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated an investigation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) pursuant to 42 USC § 14141. On October 5, 2005, the DOJ issued a technical assistance letter to VIPD, making recommendations regarding specific changes to the department's policies regarding use of force, vehicle pursuits, holding cells, misconduct investigations, discipline, supervisory oversight, and training. On December 23, 2008, the DOJ …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LES SCHWABS TIRES

9:06-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2006

Closed Date: June 27, 2010

In September 2006, the EEOC's Seattle Field Office filed this suit in U.S. District Court, District of Montana, against Les Schwab Tire Centers of Montana, Inc. and Les Schwab Tire Warehouse, Inc. The complaint was brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act; it alleged that the defendant had harassed a Native American employee because of his race, and then retaliated against him when he complained. Judge Donald W. Molloy was assigned to the case. The employee who was allegedly discriminate…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Sonic Drive Inn

3:01-cv-00819 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2001

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2005

In September 2001, the New Orleans District Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against Sonic Drive Inn and 17 related defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana alleging discrimination on the basis of sex and race in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleges that the defendant subjected the complaining parties, eleven individuals, to either a sexually hostile work environment based upon their gender, female,…