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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
T.Y. v. Shawnee County

5:94-cv-04079 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: May 19, 1994

Closed Date: 1996

On May 19, 1994, boys and girls incarcerated at the Shawnee County Youth Center in Topeka, Kansas, filed a class action lawsuit against the county commissioners, the county director of the department of corrections, and the administrator of the Youth Center. The class named included present and future children at the Youth Center; the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas under 42 U.S.C § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the totality of the conditions viola…
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
Cutter v. Wilkinson

2:97-cv-00382 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 3, 1997

Closed Date: 2009

Beginning on April 3, 1997, three prisoners in the state of Ohio filed separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Ohio Department of Corrections. Each of the plaintiffs claimed that his constitutional right to practice his religion, which was protected by the newly enacted Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), had been violated during his incarceration. The defendants argued that RLUIPA was unconst…
POLICING
Louima v. City of New York

1:98-cv-05083 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 1998

Closed Date: July 31, 2001

This is a summary of the infamous Abner Louima case. a matter that attracted international attention and sparked demonstrations on New York City Hall in 1997 for its allegations of conscious-shocking police abuse. On August 8, 1998, Louima's private attorneys, who included the late Johnnie Cochran, filed suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C.§ 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the City of New York, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA) and various individual po…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. UMB Bank Financial Corporation

4:04-cv-01084 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2004

Closed Date: May 5, 2009

On December 1, 2004 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. EEOC sued UMB Financial Corporation (UMB) under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. With the assistance of private counsel, the complainant intervened in the lawsuit shortly after the EEOC filed this lawsuit and sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as puniti…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. University of Phoenix, Inc.

2:06-cv-02303 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

On September 25, 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), on behalf of a class of non-Latter Day Saints employees, filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Arizona, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, against the University of Phoenix, Inc. The EEOC sought injunctive relief, compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorneys' fees, and other forms of affirmative relief claiming that the defendants engaged in …
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. Garden City Plastics Equipment and Supply Company, Inc.

4:04-cv-00726 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2004

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2006

In August 2004, the St. Louis District Office of the EEOC (with participation from the Kansas City Area Office) brought this suit against Garden City Plastics Equipment and Supply Co., Inc. and Plastic Packaging Concepts, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri alleging that the defendants discriminated and retaliated in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendants subjected the charging party, a fe…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. NCL AMERICA

1:06-cv-00451 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2006

Closed Date: June 3, 2010

The Los Angeles district office of the EEOC filed this case in August 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii against NCL America, Inc., a major international cruise line, and three of its affiliated corporate entities. The complaint alleged that NCL had discharged the charging parties because of their Middle Eastern origin and their Muslim religion, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In November 2006, the charging parties intervened in the suit, add…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. AREA ERECTORS, INC.

3:06-cv-00516 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2006

Closed Date: May 27, 2012

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed this lawsuit against Area Erectors, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin in September 2006. The complaint alleged the defendant engaged in racial discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. More specifically, the complaint alleged the defendant terminated the claimant's employment in retaliation for his complaints about discrimination against Black employees …