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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
Blue v. Lockhart

5:84-cv-00551 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

Closed Date: 1993

On December 5, 1984, a prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Arkansas filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Arkansas Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging that prison officials had violated his constitutional right to free exercise of his religion. The parties entered into a consent decree.On April 16, 1992 the plaintiff asked the court to hold the defendants in contempt, claiming that they had violated the consent d…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Rutherford v. Block

2:75-cv-04111 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 1975

On February 9, 1975, prisoners represented by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the practices and conditions of confinement at the Los Angeles County Central Jail (the "Jail"). On December 31, 1975, the District Court certified the class.Following a 17 day trial on the matter and unannounced jail inspections by the Court, the District Court (Judge William P. Gray) entered an orde…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch

3:06-cv-02371 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2006

Closed Date: Sept. 2, 2010

This case is one of four lawsuits filed against the City of Farmers Branch, Texas, to challenge the City's anti-immigrant housing law, Ordinance 2892 (subsequently repealed and reenacted in slightly altered form as Ordinance 2903). See Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch, Barrietos v. City of Farmers Branch and Ramos v. City of Farmers Branch. This case and two others filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch and Barrientos v. City of F…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. TARGET

2:02-cv-00146 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2002

Closed Date: Dec. 10, 2007

The Milwaukee District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Target Corporation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in February 2002. The complaint alleged that the Defendant violated Title VII's prohibition of race discrimination by failing to hire African Americans and failing to keep appropriate records to determine whether unlawful employment practices had taken place. Both parties moved for summary judgment, and Target was granted its motion, wh…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Dunbar Diagnostic Services, Inc.

4:02-cv-00555 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2002

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2005

In February 2002, the Houston office of the EEOC brought this Title VII suit against Dunbar Diagnostic Services, Inc. et al. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The complaint alleged that the defendant discriminated and retaliated against an employee. The defendant filed a motion for summary and judgment and the plaintiff filed a partial motion for summary judgment in August and September of 2002. The court granted in part and denied in part both the plaintiff and …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. COLORADO BOULEVARD MOTORS INC (d/b/a MIKE SHAW CHEVROLET INC)

1:06-cv-00591 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: March 31, 2006

Closed Date: 2009

In March 2006, the Phoenix Office of the EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, against Colorado Boulevard Motors Inc., dba Mike Shaw Chevrolet, a Denver car dealership. The suit alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. According to the complaint, the dealership had an explicit policy whereby women who submitted to sexual demands were rewarded, and those who did not were punished. The EEOC also alleged that women were routinely harassed and g…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Augustin v. Jablonsky

0:99-cv-03126 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 3, 1999

Closed Date: 2017

On June 3, 1999, a plaintiff represented by New York attorney Robert L. Herbst filed a civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff challenged the blanket strip search policy of the Nassau County Correctional Center. Under the policy, all misdemeanor and minor offense arrestees were allegedly strip-searched without any suspicion that they were concealing weapons or other contraband. The plaintiff claimed that the poli…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Brown v. Esmor Correctional Services, Inc.

2:98-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 20, 1998

Closed Date: 2007

This class action lawsuit was originally filed on March 6, 1996 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York on behalf of undocumented aliens who were detained at a facility that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (''INS'') maintained in Elizabeth, New Jersey pending a determination of their asylum status. The facility was operated by a private corporation, Esmor Correctional Services, Inc. Plaintiffs alleged that during their detention they were subjected to torture, beatings, harass…
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. …