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PRISON CONDITIONS
Lancaster v. Tilton / Thompson v. Gomez

3:79-cv-01630 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 6, 1979

Closed Date: 2009

On July 6, 1979, prisoners on death row at the California State Prison at San Quentin filed a class action lawsuit under 42 USC § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Prison Warden and the State Director of Corrections alleging a violation of their Eighth Amendment rights. A consent decree was entered on October 23, 1980, which required the prison to take corrective actions in areas such as housing, treatment, and privileges afforded to condemned …
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. Sbarro's Italian Eatery

2:00-cv-00774 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 13, 2004

In September 2000, the U.S. Attorney's Office, Salt Lake City Attorneys Office, Phoenix District Office and Albuquerque Area Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against restaurant chain Tri-Spur Investment Company (aka Tri-Spur Investments, Inc., Sbarro's Italian Eatery), Tri-Spur Investment LLC (aka Tri Spur Investment II LLC, Sbarro's Italian Eatery) and Berkley Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, in violati…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
MORGAN v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA INC

4:94-cv-01184 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 17, 1994

On June 17, 1994, several black UPS center managers filed a lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (''Title VII''), and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 against UPS in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages as well as equitable relief, claiming that UPS had violated Title VII by discriminating against black salaried employees nationwide in the…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

6:01-cv-00339 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2001

Closed Date: 2015

On August 24, 2001, the Louisville Area Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought this lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, London Division, alleging disparate treatment of female employees, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and seeking relief for a class of similarly situated female applicants who had been adversely affected. Specifically, Pla…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. CEDARS HEALTHCARE GROUP dba COLUMBIA CEDARS

1:02-cv-22913 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2002

Closed Date: 2004

On September 30, 2002, the Miami office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act against Cedars Healthcare Group, Ltd. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of the complainant by discriminating against her and discharging her because she had an unspecified disability.On March 6, 2003, the case was referred to mediation, but the mediation did no…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barahona-Gomez v. Reno

4:97-cv-00895 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 1997

Closed Date: 2006

On March 14, 1997, the National Immigration Law Center, the Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights of San Francisco Bay Area and cooperating counsel filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging directives of Executive Office for Immigration Review officials which implemented the Section 309(c) (5) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA). When the IIRIRA took effect on April 1, 1997, it made ali…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Cazenave v. Foti

2:00-cv-01246 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 25, 2000

Closed Date: 2018

On April 25, 2000, three named plaintiffs in Louisiana and Kentucky filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court the Eastern District of Louisiana. Represented by private council, they sued the Orlean's Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office (OPCSO), challenging the strip and visual body cavity search policy of the Orleans Parish Jail in Louisiana. The plaintiffs, who were arrested for minor offenses, alleged that they were strip searched pursuant to a b…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McBean v. City of New York

1:02-cv-05426 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 15, 2002

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2010

On July 15, 2002, inmates of New York City jails filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of New York and jail officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the Court in a series of amended complaints for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the defendants had violated their constitutional rights by subjecting them to strip searches in the absence of re…