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PRISON CONDITIONS
Plata v. Newsom

4:01-cv-01351 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2001

NOTE: Documents relating to the prison overcrowding proceedings in this case under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which led to imposition of a statewide prison population cap, affirmed by the Supreme Court, are presented in a different case record. See "related cases" below. Summary: On April 5, 2001, nine male California incarcerated persons filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, against officials of the California Department of C…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Lehman

2:01-cv-01911 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 2001

Closed Date: 2005

On November 27, 2001, Prison Legal News (PLN) and Rollin A. Wright filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. PLN claimed that the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) violated its First and Fourteenth Amendment rights through its mail policy. PLN was a Washington non-profit corporation that published materials of interest to inmates. The DOC prohibited the receipt by inmates of non-subscription bulk mail and cata…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Dixon v. Weinberger

1:74-cv-00285 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 8, 1986

Closed Date: March 30, 2014

In 1974, patients confined at the Federal Mental Institution (FMI) in the District of Columbia filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed under the Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act (HMIA), 21 D.C. Code §501, against the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Mental Health Law Project, asked the court for a declaration of the following: 1) that they had a right to…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Convergys Customer Management Group, Inc.

4:04-cv-00846 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 8, 2004

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2007

In July 2004 the Saint Louis District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Convergys Customer Management Group, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri alleging discrimination on the basis of physical disability in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendant failed to reasonably accommodate the complainant's physical disability. Following extensive discover…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. AMALGAMATED SUGAR CO.

1:98-cv-00378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 1998

Closed Date: June 28, 2001

In September 1998, the EEOC district office in Seattle, Washington brought this suit against the Amalgamated Sugar Company in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The complaint alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating against Hispanic workers. Specifically, the EEOC alleged that although several individuals had worked for the defendant in previous years as seasonal workers, the defendant refused to hire them again because the…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX

1:05-mc-01048 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2005

Closed Date: 2010

In September 2005, the Albuquerque Area Office and Phoenix District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against educational service-provider University of Phoenix, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complaining parties intervened in the lawsuit in February and May of 2006. Following discovery, settlement by one complaining party …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LENNAR HOMES OF ARIZONA INC

2:03-cv-01827 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2003

Closed Date: July 17, 2007

In September 2003, the Phoenix District Office and Denver Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Lennar Homes of Arizona, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona alleging violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Complainants allege that their positions as Sales Consultants were terminated, by the defendant, despite their records of high performance. Additionally, complainants allege that the defendant hired younger and less experienced representatives t…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Moeller v. Bradford County

3:05-cv-00334 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 2005

On February 17, 2005, six named plaintiffs represented by attorneys with the ACLU of Pennsylvania and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, challenging the practices of the Firm Foundation of America, a prison ministry organization, at the Bradford County Correctional Facility. Five of the plaintiffs were taxpaying residents of the county and …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Fulbright v. Jones

5:03-cv-00099 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2003

Closed Date: 2012

On January 21, 2003, Plaintiff. a prisoner in an Oklahoma correctional center, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, alleging that his Constitutional rights under the Free Exercise Clause were being violated by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections' refusal to provide him with a Kosher diet. In June 2003, the court (Judge Wayne Alley) consolidated Plaintiff's case with two other similar complaints. All three prisoners fi…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Nooner v. Norris

5:06-cv-00110 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 1, 2006

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2008

On May 1, 2006, an inmate awaiting execution at the Supermax Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Represented by the Federal Public Defender, the inmate claimed that the procedures used to carry out lethal injections in Arkansas—specifically the use of potassium chloride in the lethal cocktail of drugs—risked unnecessary conscious suffering in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The…