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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
Cottone v. Jenne

0:00-cv-07545 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2000

Closed Date: July 20, 2006

Plaintiff, a personal representative for his son, sued numerous defendants associated with the Broward County Detention Center in Florida after his son, a pretrial detainee, died at the hands of a mentally ill co-inmate. The detention center was subject to a consent decree from Carruthers v. Cochran (JC-FL-008) that required the jail to institute a system of classification, separation, and monitoring of inmates. In 2002, the district court for the Southern District of Florida (Judge William J…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Stevens v. CA Youth Authority

2:01-cv-00675 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 4, 2001

Closed Date: 2003

On April 4, 2001, nine youths in custody of the California Youth Authority ("CYA") filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the CYA in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. The youths, represented by both private counsel and counsel from the Disability Rights Advocates, sought injunctive and declaratory relief under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, the Americans with Disability Act (42 U.S.C. § 12131), the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794) and the…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Nunn v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:96-cv-71416 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 27, 1996

Closed Date: April 25, 2007

On March 27, 1996 women prisoners at Scott Correctional Facility and Florence Crane Facility in Michigan filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs alleged that they were subjected to a pattern and practice of sexual harassment and abuse as a result of the Michigan Department of Correction's (DOC) failure to train properly and discipline its staff. Defendants moved to dismiss. The district court (Judge John Corbett…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Lozano v. City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania

3:06-cv-01586 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2016

In this lawsuit, filed on August 15, 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, two property owners challenged the Hazleton, Pennsylvania ordinance penalizing those who rent to or hire undocumented immigrants. This was the first city ordinance of its kind, and the lawsuit received a great deal of press. The ordinance, titled "Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance" (Immigration Ordinance), immediately served as a model for several dozen other cities' similar enac…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Reynolds v. City of Valley Park, Missouri

4:06-cv-01487 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On September 22, 2006, landlords and employers in Valley Park Missouri and the non-profit Equal Housing Opportunity Council brought suit as plaintiffs in state court against the City of Valley Park. Represented by a large group of lawyers from advocacy organizations (including the ACLU), law school clinics, and several St. Louis law firms, the plaintiffs sought a declaration that the City of Valley Park's Ordinance 1708 was unlawful, under both state and federal law, and a temporary, preliminar…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Stein World LLC

2:06-cv-02478 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: July 25, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On July 25, 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), on behalf of a black forklift operator (plaintiff-intervenor), filed a lawsuit in the Western District Court of Tennessee under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against Stein World, LLC. The EEOC sought the defendant's compliance with a prior settlement agreement, injunctive relief, compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorneys' fees, and other forms of affirmative relief, claiming that the defendant violated …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Bell Gas, Inc.

1:02-cv-01090 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2002

Closed Date: 2004

On August 29, 2002, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico against Bell Gas, Inc. and related corporations on behalf of a female employee. The EEOC alleged that the companies had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000e et. seq.) by subjecting the employee to a sexually hostile work environment created by verbal and physical harassment from her immediate supervisor, including sexual ass…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Huffman v. New Prime, Inc.

6:01-cv-03144 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 29, 2001

Closed Date: July 6, 2004

A private plaintiff brought this case against New Prime, Inc., a trucking company, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri in March 2001. The case was consolidated with a suit brought by the EEOC in August 2001. Two other complainants intervened in this case. The defendant filed several motions to dismiss, which were denied. The defendant also filed several partial motions for judgment on the pleadings, one of which was granted. The defendant also filed several motions f…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. FOODCRAFTERS DISTRIBUTION CO.

1:03-cv-02796 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 11, 2003

Closed Date: 2010

The Philadelphia District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Foodcrafters Distribution Company, Tropical Plant Carriers, Inc., and Little Brownies Properties, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in July 2003. Five charging parties intervened in the EEOC's case, which was consolidated with the a private party suit, Lovenduski v. Foodcrafters Distribution Company, 1:04-cv-02394 (D. N.J. May 21, 2004), in June 2004. Defendants moved for summary judgment in June…