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JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Terrell County (GA)

1:04-cv-00076 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 7, 2004

Closed Date: July 15, 2014

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Terrell County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Terrell County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, grievance system, exercise, visitation, access to reading materials and religious services, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, suicide prevention,…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Davis v. Buckley

3:80-00569 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 22, 1980

Closed Date: April 25, 1983

In 1980, a intellectually disabled resident of the Southside Virginia Training Center ("Southside") filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of himself and 98 other Southside residents with intellectual disabilities who desired community placement. Plaintiffs, represented by the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society and the Peninsula Legal Aid Center, sought declaratory and injunctive relief requiring the defendants, who included So…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Women Prisoners of DC Department of Corrections v. District of Columbia

1:93-cv-02052 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1993

Closed Date: 2004

On October 1, 1993, a group of female prisoners of the District of Columbia filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the District of Columbia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by sexual abuse from prison staff, who they claimed had used physical force and threats of physical forc…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rust v. Gunter

4:84-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 1984

On 10/24/1984, death row inmates at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, represented by private counsel, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of Nebraska against officials of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Plaintiffs complained of inadequate access to the law library, legal services, exercise, and visitation rights.The case went to trial in July 1986, but settled prior to the conclusion of the trial. The District Court (Judge Warren K. Urbom) entered the conse…
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. AutoZone, INC.

2:06-cv-00926 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 30, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

On March 30, 2006, the Phoenix District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiff sued the automobile repairer AutoZone, Inc. under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The plaintiff, representing a female employee of AutoZone Inc., asked the court for monetary relief for the complainant and injunctive relief enjoining the defendant from future discrimination on the basis of sex. Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that her…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. TOTAL PETROLEUM, INC.

5:98-cv-01274 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 1998

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2001

The EEOC's Oklahoma Area Office sued TPI Petroleum, Inc., a mid-west petroleum refiner, on September 16, 1998 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. The EEOC's complaint is unavailable, however the contents of its complaint is summarized in the consent decree, filed on February 1, 2000. The EEOC alleged that TPI violated Title VII when it discriminated based on sex (female) by creating a hostile work environment for the intervenor, who intervened in November 1998, w…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Collegeville/Imagineering

2:05-cv-03033 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2005

Closed Date: Nov. 19, 2009

In September 2005, the Phoenix District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Collegeville/Imagineering and Rubie's Costume Company, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant created a hostile work environment culminating in the constructive discharge of one complaining party. Following discovery and su…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. ASI MILLWORK, INC.

3:00-cv-02124 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2000

Closed Date: 2002

On September 28, 2000, the Dallas office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against ASI Millwork, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of the complainant by subjecting her to a sexually hostile work environment and by constructively discharging her.On March 5, 2001, the case was referred to mediation, but the parties could not reach a settlement. On October 9…