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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…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Connecticut

3:86-cv-00252 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 25, 1986

Closed Date: 2009

On May 1, 1984, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division informed the Governor of Connecticut that it would investigate the living conditions at Southbury Training School, an institutional care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/MR) in Southbury, Connecticut, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. On September 11, 1985, the Department of Justice announced its findings. Three lawsuits, including th…
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. …
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Los Angeles

2:00-cv-11769 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2000

Closed Date: 2013

On November 3, 2000, the United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California under 42 U.S.C. §14141, alleging that the City of Los Angeles, its Board of Police Commissioners and its Police Department (collectively the "LAPD") deprived individuals of their constitutional rights through the use of excessive force, false arrests and improper searches and seizures. The suit was an offshoot of a lengthy internal investigation of the LAPD's Rampart Divisi…
POLICING
Wilkins v. Maryland State Police

1:93-cv-00468 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 1993

Closed Date: 2008

On February 12, 1993, Robert L. Wilkins, an African-American attorney, and three of his relatives filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against the State of Maryland and the Maryland State Police [MSP] under 42 U.S.C. §1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, alleged that defendants violated their constitutional rights by stopping, detaining and searching them pursuant to a racial profile used by defendants as part …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Mast v. Indiana Department of Corrections

2:05-cv-00037 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2005

Closed Date: July 23, 2019

On February 3, 2005, inmates confined to the Secured Housing Unit ("SHU") at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Indiana filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU National Prison Project and the ACLU of Indiana, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the confinement of certain mentally ill prisoners there was unconstitutional. On March 10, 2005,…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LEXUS OF SERRAMONTE & SONIC AUTO

4:05-cv-00962 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 8, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

In March 2005, the EEOC district office of San Francisco, California brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Lexus of Serramonte, a Lexus automotive dealership; Sonic Automotive, Inc., an internet automotive dealership; and First America Automotive. The complaint alleged that the defendants maintained sexually hostile work environments in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After a grant of partial summary judgment for t…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. AIRGUIDE CORPORATION

1:02-cv-22912 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

On September 30, 2002, the Miami District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed this lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, against Airguide Corporation and Pioneer Metals. Airguide manufactured air conditioning units, and Pioneer Metals was Airguide's parent company. The EEOC, who brought suit on behalf of eight current and former male and female employees and other similarly situated individuals who were employed by A…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

6:01-cv-00339 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2001

Closed Date: 2015

On August 24, 2001, the Louisville Area Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought this lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, London Division, alleging disparate treatment of female employees, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and seeking relief for a class of similarly situated female applicants who had been adversely affected. Specifically, Pla…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. TARGET

2:02-cv-00146 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2002

Closed Date: Dec. 10, 2007

The Milwaukee District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Target Corporation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in February 2002. The complaint alleged that the Defendant violated Title VII's prohibition of race discrimination by failing to hire African Americans and failing to keep appropriate records to determine whether unlawful employment practices had taken place. Both parties moved for summary judgment, and Target was granted its motion, wh…