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PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. Price

2:95-cv-00338 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: March 7, 1995

Closed Date: 1999

On 03/07/1995, death row inmates of the State Correctional Institution at Greene filed a Section 1983 suit in the Western District of Pennsylvania, pro se, against officials of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Plaintiffs claimed that strip searches prior to non contact visits with attorneys were unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment; that they were deprived of equal protection in being denied contact legal visits; and that the lack of confidential meeting rooms for legal visits de…
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. …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Skinner v. Uphoff

2:02-cv-00033 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2002

On February 15, 2002, inmates at Wyoming State Prison filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming against the director of the Wyoming Department of Correction and prison officers and administrators. The class consisted of all those who were or would be inmates at the Wyoming State Prison. The ACLU and private counsel represented the class. The plaintiffs sought damages and injunctive relief, alleging that the policies and practic…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Morgan v. City of Houston

4:76-cv-00629 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 12, 1976

Closed Date: Aug. 1, 2013

In 1976, a lawsuit was filed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on behalf of inmates who were incarcerated for failure to pay a fine, alleging that the City of Houston violated their due process rights because they had not been given the opportunity to show whether they could afford to pay the fines, they were not provided with lawyers, and they were not informed of their right to defer payment rather than face incarceration. The complaint further alleged that conditions…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Dixon v. Weinberger

1:74-cv-00285 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 8, 1986

Closed Date: March 30, 2014

In 1974, patients confined at the Federal Mental Institution (FMI) in the District of Columbia filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed under the Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act (HMIA), 21 D.C. Code §501, against the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Mental Health Law Project, asked the court for a declaration of the following: 1) that they had a right to…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC

3:06-cv-01453 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 27, 2006

Closed Date: 2009

On March 27, 2006, the New York District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against United Parcel Service, Inc. (“UPS”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Based on a complaint it received, UPS had failed to hire the complainant because he refused to shave his beard that he wears in observance of Rastafarianism. The complainant had applied for a driver helper position with UPS in November of 2004. UPS policy did not allow drivers or driver helpers to have facial hair be…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. ATLANTIS GOLF CLUB, INC.

9:99-cv-09077 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 1999

Closed Date: Aug. 9, 2001

The Miami District Office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, against Atlantis Golf Club, Inc. The complaint, filed in December 1999, alleged sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; specifically that Defendant subjected charging party to sexual harassment and then terminated her in retaliation for complaining to management about the harassment.In May 2000 the charging party intervened and in Augus…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. WAL-MART STORES INC

4:04-cv-00076 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2004

Closed Date: April 18, 2010

The Kansas City, Kansas and St. Louis, Missouri offices of the EEOC brought this case against Wal-Mart, Inc. in January 2004 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The complaint alleged that the Wal-Mart store located in Richmond, Missouri failed to hire the complainant because of his physical disability in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. After a number of discovery disputes, Wal-Mart, Inc. filed a motion for summary judgment. The District Court gr…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Scolari Warehouse Markets

3:04-cv-00229 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: May 6, 2004

Closed Date: 2011

In May 2004, the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office brought suit against Scolari Food and Drug. The complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by subjecting female employees to sex-based harassment and retaliating against them when they complained. After a prolonged series of discovery disputes, one of which resulted in Rule 11 sanctions against the EEOC in the amount of $4,000, the defendan…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Peabody Coal Company

2:01-cv-01050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 13, 2001

The EEOC Phoenix office filed this suit on June 13, 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The suit alleged that defendant Peabody Western Coal's lease agreement with the Navajo Nation violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act because it mandated a hiring preference in favor of Navajo Indians, as opposed to members of other Indian tribes. The complainants, who intervened in the case, were Hopi Indians who were not hired to work at the coal plant. Peabody Western Coal move…