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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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Marion County Jail Inmates v. Cottey

1:72-00424 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 1972

Closed Date: 2007

Starting in 1972, Marion County Jail in Indiana was the subject of a long-running case to improve its conditions. One of the results of that case was a federal injunction putting a cap on the maximum population size of the jail. We do not have much information on this initial phase of the litigation. What we do know is that after the passage of PLRA, on July 21, 1997, officials at the jail asked the court to lift the population cap so it could put in bunk beds and house an additional one hundre…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turner v. Schultz

1:99-cv-02232 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 11, 1999

On November 11, 1999, an inmate incarcerated at the Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, filed a Bivens lawsuit against fifteen corrections officers and officials pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff, represented by court-appointed counsel, alleged violations of his Fourth and Eighth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that several corrections officers, known as the "Cowboys," were liable for mali…
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. 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. COMPREHENSIVE BENEFIT CONSULTANTS

2:04-cv-03076 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: 2009

The New York District Office brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, against Comprehensive Benefit Consultants. The complaint, filed in July 2004, alleged sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; specifically that Defendant subjected the charging parties to a sexually hostile work environment, constructive discharge and retaliation because of their sex, female. Defendant moved for summary judgment in February 2006…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. COWBOYS/RED RIVER

3:99-cv-01685 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 27, 1999

Closed Date: March 27, 2006

In July 1999, the Dallas District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Red River Beverage Company, doing business as Cowboys Red River Dance Hall and Saloon, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas 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 defendant demoted the charging party, a female employee, and subjected her to a hostile working environment due to her se…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Forrey v. Federated Financial Services

0:01-cv-07089 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 27, 2001

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2012

In June 2001, the Miami District Office of the EEOC represented an employee in this suit in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, against Federated Financial Services alleging sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and state law. According to the complaint, female employees of the defendant were subjected to crude sexual remarks, and some of them were terminated when they complained. The plaintiff sought a declaratory judgment, compensat…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Serrano v. Cintas

2:04-cv-40132 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 10, 2004

Closed Date: March 15, 2018

On May 10, 2004, several people who applied to work at Cintas filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Plaintiffs sued Cintas under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys, sought monetary damages. Specifically, plaintiffs alleged that she personally applied for three positions as a Route Sales Driver with Cintas over the course of six months and was denied three times despite being wel…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ali v. Ashcroft

2:02-cv-02304 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2002

Closed Date: Sept. 19, 2008

[The following summary is adapted with some additions from the Background section of the District Court's Order of March 30, 2007. See Ali v. Gonzales, 486 F. Supp. 2d 1197, 1199-1202 (W.D. Wash. 2007).]On November 13, 2002, five Somali nationals detained pending execution of a final order of removal to Somalia filed a petition for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington challenging respondent federal government's deportation methods and post-removal-orde…