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JAIL CONDITIONS
McCray v. Dawson

3:92-cv-01180 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 1992

Closed Date: 2001

On September 21, 1992, inmates at the Macon County Jail in Tuskegee, Alabama, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the conditions of their confinement at the jail. The plaintiffs were represented by the Southern Prisoners Defense Committee and the Southern Center for Human Rights. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (Judge Ira De Ment) granted the plaintiffs class certification and approved a consent order in September 1994, which required the defendants, county…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Sheriff [USDOJ CRIPA Case]

2:15-cv-05903 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2015

On June 6, 1996, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Los Angeles County that it intended to investigate conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail system (the Jails) pursuant to the Civil Rights of the Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In August of 1996, the DOJ toured the Jails with correctional mental health experts. The investigation found that the Jails were failing to provide care meeting constitutional standards to mentally ill inmates. On September 5, 1997, the DOJ…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Castillo v. Cameron County, TX

1:93-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 1993

Closed Date: 2002

In 1993, plaintiffs in Cameron County Jail brought a section 1983 class action suit against the county alleging that the overcrowded conditions in the jail amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. The district court for the Southern District of Texas (Judge John William Black) certified plaintiffs' class and allowed the county to implead the State of Texas as a third-party defendant because the state failed to transfer ""paper ready"" inmates to state correctional facilities. In 1994, the co…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Women Prisoners of DC Department of Corrections v. District of Columbia

1:93-cv-02052 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1993

Closed Date: 2004

On October 1, 1993, a group of female prisoners of the District of Columbia filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the District of Columbia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by sexual abuse from prison staff, who they claimed had used physical force and threats of physical forc…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Henry v. Deland

2:89-cv-01124 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 1989

Closed Date: 2000

On December 18, 1989, Sandra Henry filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C § 1983 in the United States District Court for the District of Utah against the Utah Department of Corrections. Henry brought the lawsuit on behalf of herself and current and future inmates at the Utah State Penitentiary at Draper. Plaintiffs were represented by the Legal Center for the Handicapped, the ACLU of Utah Foundation, and private attorneys. The National Prison Project of the ACLU later represented plaint…
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. …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Ford Motor Credit Company

3:06-cv-00900 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

The EEOC brought this suit against Ford Motor Credit Company in September 2006 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (Nashville). The case was assigned to Judge Aleta A. Trauger. The complaint alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act for failure to keep confidential the medical information of an employee with HIV. The complainant intervened, alleging violations of the ADA and the Tennessee Human Rights Act, invasion of privacy and intentional i…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Honda of America

2:06-cv-00233 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: March 27, 2006

Closed Date: 2009

On March 27, 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought this suit against Honda of America, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The EEOC's complaint alleged that an individual female employee at Honda had suffered from discriminatory employment practices because of her gender, and that she had subsequently been terminated from employment when she opposed the discriminatory treatment. The complaint was brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Ac…
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. 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…