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JAIL CONDITIONS
Woodson v. Sully

3:85-cv-03049 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 1985

Closed Date: 2011

On February 27, 1985, prisoners of the Wyandotte County Jail filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys, sued the Board of County Commissioners of Wyandotte County, three individual commissioners, and the Sheriff of Wyandotte County. The plaintiffs challenged the conditions of their confinement. In 1987, the parties negotiated a stipulated consent de…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rust v. Gunter

4:84-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 1984

On 10/24/1984, death row inmates at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, represented by private counsel, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of Nebraska against officials of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Plaintiffs complained of inadequate access to the law library, legal services, exercise, and visitation rights.The case went to trial in July 1986, but settled prior to the conclusion of the trial. The District Court (Judge Warren K. Urbom) entered the conse…
PUBLIC HOUSING
NAACP, Boston Chapter v. HUD

1:78-cv-00850 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 17, 1978

On April 17, 1978, two citizens of Massachusetts filed lawsuits under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977 against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by racially discriminatory disbursement of federal housing funds in the cities of Boston and…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. THE DENVER NEWSPAPER AGENCY, LLP

1:04-cv-01896 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2004

Closed Date: April 27, 2007

The EEOC's Denver district office sued The Denver Newspaper Agency LLP, the publisher of the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, on September 14, 2004 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The EEOC's complaint is unavailable, however Judge Walker D. Miller's order concerning both parties' motions for summary judgment (filed by the defendant against the EEOC and intervenor on April 10, 2006 and by the EEOC against the defendant on April 11, 2006) briefly summaries the ca…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Mortgage Information Services

0:01-cv-07543 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2001

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2003

In September 2001, the Miami District Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against Mortgage Information Services, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant subjected the charging party, a female employee, to a sexually hostile work environment and retaliated against the charging party following her complaint …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Hill Brothers Construction & Engineering Company, Inc.

3:05-cv-00122 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2005

Closed Date: April 4, 2010

This suit was filed by the EEOC's Birmingham District Office in September 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the northern District of Mississippi, against Hill Brothers Construction and Engineering Company, Inc. The complaint alleged that Hill Brothers had subjected three male employees to sexual harassment and constructive discharge. One charging party intervened in October 2005. In February 2007, there was a jury trial, which does not appear to have settled all the claims, as the private…
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. U.S. Bell / Buzz Telecom

2:03-cv-00237 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 16, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2005

The EEOC's Indianapolis district office sued U.S. Bell Corporation, a national telecommunications provider, on June 16, 2003 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The EEOC's complaint is unavailable, however the four intervenors, who intervened in November 2003, alleged that U.S. Bell violated Title VII when it discriminated based on sex (female) by creating a hostile work environment and retaliated against the intervenors when it discharged them for their complaints…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Johnson v. District of Columbia

1:02-cv-02364 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2002

Closed Date: 2013

On December 2, 2002, nine female plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed this 42 U.S.C §1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs challenged the practice of the U.S. Marshal's Service and the District of Columbia of conducting blanket strip, visual body cavity, and/or squat searches ("strip searches") of female arrestees that were being held in the Superior Court Cell Block of the D.C. Superior Court while awaiting presentment b…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nilsen v. York County

2:02-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2002

Closed Date: 2006

On October 15, 2002, a man and woman represented by attorneys David G. Webbert of Augusta, Maine, and Howard Friedman of Boston, Massachusetts, filed a class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for Maine. The lawsuit challenged the blanket policy of conducting routine, suspicionless strip searches of all pre-arraignment detainees entering the York County (Maine) Jail. Plaintiffs maintained that with every pre-trial detainee strip searche…