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PRISON CONDITIONS
Crowe v. Erickson

4:72-cv-04101 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1972

On November 21, 1972, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 suit in the District Court for the Southern Division of South Dakota against the warden, prison officials, and the Governor. Plaintiffs complained of punishment for violations of prison rules without due process of law, prison officials reading and censoring incoming and outgoing mail, poor medical treatment, inadequate religious and cultural protections, inadequate work release and employment programs, a…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Bowers v. City of Philadelphia

2:06-cv-03229 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 24, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On July 24, 2006, pre-trial detainees in the Philadelphia Prison System [PPS] filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), challenging the conditions of their confinement. Plaintiffs, represented by the Institutional Law Project and private attorneys, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages. Plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by severe prison…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Prye v. Blunt

2:04-cv-04248 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

During 2003, a law professor residing in Illinois developed a mental illness. Due to this illness, a state court appointed the Office of State Guardian as guardian of his person and, in 2004, of his estate. He moved to Missouri, where a petition was soon filed to appoint a guardian for him. The guardianship in Illinois did not affect his eligibility to vote while residing there, but the guardianship adjudication had a different, prohibitive impact on his voting rights in Missouri. Thus, in …
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. Outback Steakhouse of Florida

1:06-cv-01935 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2006

Closed Date: 2013

In September 2006, the Denver District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed this lawsuit against Outback Steakhouse of Florida, OS Restaurant Partners, and OS Restaurant Services (the latter two doing business as Outback Steakhouse) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado alleging discrimination on the basis of gender in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Individual complaining parties intervened in the lawsuit in November 2006,…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Milgard Manufacturing Incorporated dba Milgard Windows

1:01-cv-01731 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2001

Closed Date: 2004

In August 2001, the Denver District Office brought this suit against Milgard Manufacturing, Inc., a producer of windows and sliding doors, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado alleging discrimination on the basis of race, African-American, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. However, it appears from the EEOC's litigation settlement report that the complaint …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Delandro v. County of Allegheny

2:06-cv-00927 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 13, 2006

On July 13, 2006, two individuals, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit against Defendants Allegheny County in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, challenging the Allegheny County Bureau of Corrections' policy and practice of strip-searching all individuals entering Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) who were placed in jail clothing, regardless of their criminal charge and without reasonable suspicion to be…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Marriott v. Montgomery County

5:03-cv-00531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: April 29, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

On April 29, 2003, a person represented by a group of private attorneys from New York and D.C. law firms filed a class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the North District of New York, challenging the jail admission policy of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department. The policy, known as a "change-out" procedure, required that each admittee to be placed in the Montgomery County Jail had to remove his/her clothes, shower and then change in…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
M.K.B. v. Eggleston

1:05-cv-10446 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2005

Closed Date: 2014

On December 13, 2005, a group of battered immigrant wives and children of lawful U.S. residents filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the denial of food stamps, Medicaid, and other public assistance benefits to certain categories of immigrants. The plaintiffs alleged that they applied for public benefits at New York City Job Centers, but were improperly denied those benefits in violation of state and federal law. …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Cooey v. Taft

2:04-cv-01156 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 10, 2004

On June 10, 2004, two death-sentenced inmates at the Mansfield Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Ohio, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. They asked the Court to stay their executions and issue an injunction against the defendants' use of their current lethal injection protocol, which they alleged would violate their Constitutional rights by torturing them to deat…