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JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Sheriff [USDOJ CRIPA Case]

2:15-cv-05903 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2015

On June 6, 1996, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Los Angeles County that it intended to investigate conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail system (the Jails) pursuant to the Civil Rights of the Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In August of 1996, the DOJ toured the Jails with correctional mental health experts. The investigation found that the Jails were failing to provide care meeting constitutional standards to mentally ill inmates. On September 5, 1997, the DOJ…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Benjamin v. Horn

1:75-cv-03073 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 24, 1975

This case was consolidated for enforcement purposes with Ambrose v. Malcolm; Detainees of Queens House of Detention v. Malcolm; Detainees of Brooklyn House of Detention for Men v. Malcolm; Maldonado v. Ciuros; Forts v. Malcolm; and Rosenthal v. Malcolm. The summary below includes all of these in the consolidated form, but more information about each individual case is included in the "Related Cases" section. On June 24, 1975, a group of pretrial detainees at Rikers Island Detention Center for M…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Sheppard v. Phoenix

1:91-cv-04148 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 18, 1991

Closed Date: 2002

On June 18, 1991, an inmate at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility (RICF) in New York filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Warden of RICF in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff, who was later represented by the Legal Aid Society Prisoners' Rights Project of New York, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that his constitutional rights had been violated when correctional officers beat…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Crowe v. Erickson

4:72-cv-04101 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1972

On November 21, 1972, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 suit in the District Court for the Southern Division of South Dakota against the warden, prison officials, and the Governor. Plaintiffs complained of punishment for violations of prison rules without due process of law, prison officials reading and censoring incoming and outgoing mail, poor medical treatment, inadequate religious and cultural protections, inadequate work release and employment programs, a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lindell v. Frank

3:02-cv-00021 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2002

Closed Date: 2005

On January 17, 2002, a prisoner confined at the Supermax Correctional Institution (Supermax) in Boscobel, Wisconsin, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against employees of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and Supermax. The plaintiff claimed that prison rules and practices violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1. …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Inmates of the Bucks County Correctional Facility v. County of Bucks

2:02-cv-07377 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2002

On September 12, 2002, inmates of the Bucks County Correctional Facility [BCCF] filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), challenging their conditions of confinement. Plaintiffs, represented by the Institutional Law Project and private attorneys, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages. Plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by denial of nece…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. K&B LOUISIANA CORPORATION (D/B/A RITE AID)

2:03-cv-02079 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 21, 2003

Closed Date: July 28, 2005

The New Orleans District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against K&B Louisiana Corp., doing business as Rite Aid Inc., in July of 2003, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The suit was based on sexual harassment and retaliation against a female employee in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complainant intervened in the case, which consisted mostly of discovery issues. Rite Aid filed a motion for summary judgment in which the court…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
ALICIA MANSEL v. BUILDERS GYPSUM SUPPLY LLC (f/d/b/a BUILDERS GYPSUM SUPPLY CO INC)

5:05-cv-00965 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2005

Closed Date: May 12, 2010

The San Antonio district office of the EEOC brought this suit against Builders Gypsum Supply LLP and three individual defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in September 2005. The complaint filed by the EEOC alleged harassment based on the complainant's sex, female, and retaliation against the complainant for complaining of this sexual harassment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complainant was allowed to file a complaint as an i…
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…