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JAIL CONDITIONS
Bull v. City and County of San Francisco

3:03-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 2003

Closed Date: 2013

On April 23, 2003, nine plaintiffs, acting through private attorneys, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the strip search policy of the City and County of San Francisco ("CCSF"). Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that, under CCSF policy, all prisoners who were placed in the general jail population at the CCSF's jails were subjected to strip and visual body cavity searches, with those refusing to consent be…
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
Jane Doe v. District of Columbia

1:92-cv-00635 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 11, 1992

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 1993

In March 1992, inmates infected with HIV in the District of Columbia's Lorton Prison filed suit in the District of DC against the District of Columbia, represented by an attorney from the Open Society Initiative. Plaintiffs sued using pseudonyms under section 1983 for violation of their Fifth Amendment right to privacy and Eighth Amendment right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment. In addition, certain plaintiffs sued for violation of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. section 794, for …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ilick v. Miller

3:94-00314 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: May 15, 1994

Closed Date: 2000

On 5/15/1994, inmates at Ely State Prison, represented by the ACLU National Prison Project, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of Nevada, against officials of the Nevada Department of Prisons. Plaintiffs claimed that Defendants deliberately subjected them to injury and risk of injury from a ""shoot to injure"" policy enforced in non-threatening situations. Plaintiffs also complained of inadequate medical and mental health care, denial of meaningful access to the court, and…
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
Giles v. Coughlin

1:95-cv-03033 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 28, 1995

James Giles, an inmate at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in New York, filed a pro-se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the state Department of Corrections on April 28, 1995, alleging that his Eighth Amendment rights had been violated when he was held in "medical keeplock" for refusing to take a test that would detect latent tuberculosis ("PPD test"). The conditions of confinement in medical keeplock were found unconstitutional in two other sou…
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Detroit, Michigan

2:03-cv-72258 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 12, 2003

Closed Date: May 31, 2016

On June 12, 2003, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Detroit. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 14141, the DOJ alleged a pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct by officers of the Detroit Police Department (DPD), including the excessive use of force, false arrest, improper warrantless searches and failure to protect detainees. Contemporaneously with the filing o…
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, …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harper v. Bennett

1:04-cv-01416 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 19, 2004

Closed Date: 2015

On May 19, 2004, inmates at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued Fulton County and the Georgia Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the conditions of their confinement under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The class action suit, brought on behalf of inmates who were currently or would be incarcerated in the future at the Fulton County Jail facilities in Atla…
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…