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PRISON CONDITIONS
D.M. v. Terhune

3:96-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 11, 1996

Closed Date: 1999

On April 11, 1996, prisoners of the state of New Jersey filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) against the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Social Justice at the Seton Hall University School of Law, were a class of mentally ill inmates who alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by the denial of treatmen…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Amador v. Department of Correctional Services

1:03-cv-00650 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2003

Closed Date: 2015

On January 28, 2003, seventeen current and former female inmates at the New York State Department of Correctional Services filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against two classes of defendants pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs alleged that the prison correctional staff engaged in repeated acts of sexual abuse and harassment against female inmates in New York state prisons. These alleged acts ranged in severity from verbal harassm…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jones'el v. Berge

3:00-cv-00421 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2000

Closed Date: 2008

On September 25, 2000, prisoners confined at the Supermax Correctional Institution in Boscobel, Wisconsin, and the Waupun Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against those prisons. The plaintiffs, represented by court appointed counsel and the University of Wisconsin School of Law, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that their va…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Presley v. Epps

4:05-cv-00148 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 22, 2005

Closed Date: 2012

On June 22, 2005, attorneys for the local ACLU and the ACLU National Prison Project filed a class-action § 1983 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on behalf of inmates confined in Unit 32 of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi. The lawsuit alleged dangerous and inhumane conditions of confinement in Unit 32, a "supermax" facility operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). The plaintiffs immediately moved for clas…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. INTOWN SUITES MANAGEMENT, INC.

1:03-cv-01494 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 27, 2003

Closed Date: Nov. 21, 2005

The Atlanta Office of the EEOC filed this action in the District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. The Defendant was Intown Suites, Inc., an apartment-style hotel chain. The controversy involved the alleged retaliation against the complainant in response to her complaint that she was opposed to the company policy of not hiring minorities for management positions. The complainant intervened and also alleged that the company had a pattern of discriminating against people of color. T…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. International Profit Associates, Inc.

1:01-cv-04427 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 12, 2001

Closed Date: 2014

This case was filed by the Chicago office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in June 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The EEOC alleged that the defendant, a telemarketer of small business consulting packages based in Buffalo Grove, IL, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by carrying out a pattern or practice of discrimination by subjecting female employees to sexual harassment. EEOC also alleged the defendant made favorable employment act…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Convergys Customer Management Group, Inc.

4:04-cv-00846 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 8, 2004

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2007

In July 2004 the Saint Louis District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Convergys Customer Management Group, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri alleging discrimination on the basis of physical disability in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendant failed to reasonably accommodate the complainant's physical disability. Following extensive discover…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Enterprise Leasing Company of Florida

8:00-cv-02012 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2000

Closed Date: 2002

In September 2000, the Miami district office of the EEOC brought this suit against Enterprise Leasing Company of Florida d/b/a Enterprise Rent-A-Car in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The complaint alleged that the defendant discriminated against the claimant by refusing to promote him because of his race (black). The claimant intervened in the EEOC's suit in October 2001 adding claims under the Florida Civil Rights Act. After the defendant filed two discovery moti…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Newnan Trading Company

1:01-cv-01062 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 24, 2001

Closed Date: 2004

On April 24, 2001, the Atlanta office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against Newnan Trading Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of the complainant, who intervened as a plaintiff in this lawsuit, by subjecting her to sexual harassment and gender discrimination when they fired her for refusing to comply with their restroom/break room pass rules. W…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. WHITEHALL HOTEL

1:03-cv-06851 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2003

Closed Date: Sept. 13, 2005

The EEOC's Chicago office filed this suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on September 29, 2003. The complaint alleged Whitehall Hotel and Whitehall Restaurant violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to accommodate a cook with a learning disability and by including impermissible inquiries on job applications regarding applicants' need for accommodations. After filing, both sides filed numerous discovery motions. The defendant filed a motion for…