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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Ricci v. Okin

1:72-cv-00469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 14, 1972

Closed Date: 2013

On February 7, 1972 a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of mentally disabled clients of Belchertown State School in Massachusetts against various Commonwealth officials responsible for the operation of the school in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, filing under the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396(a), asserted that conditions at the school violated residents' statutory and constitutional rights, including the right to minimally adeq…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Alamo Rent-A-Car, LLC

2:02-cv-01908 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

On September 27, 2002, the Phoenix office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against Alamo Rent-A-Car and ANC Rental Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of the complainant, a Somali Muslim woman, by refusing to allow her to wear a head scarf during Ramadan and by discharging her when she insisted on wearing it.On November 19, 2002, the case was stayed due to …
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 …
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. Coast Energy Management, Inc.

2:01-cv-01352 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: July 20, 2001

Closed Date: Feb. 23, 2005

In July 2001, the Phoenix Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Coast Energy Management, Inc., and DGB Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The complaint alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for sex discrimination and retaliation. It was alleged that a class of female employees were subjected to both physical and verbal sexual harassment that altered the terms and conditions of their employment and created a hostile work…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Morales v. Hickman

3:06-cv-00219 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2006

On January 11, 2006, several inmates at the state prison at San Quentin filed lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, all of whom were scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, alleged that their constitutional rights were threatened, arguing that lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment that violated the Eighth Amendment. They further argued that pancuronium…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dare v. Knox County

2:02-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2002

On December 17, 2002, a pre-trial detainee filed a class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, challenging the Knox County Sheriff's policies, practices, and customs concerning the use of strip searches and visual body cavity searches in Knox County Jail. Plaintiff alleged that officers subjected detainees in their custody to strip and visual body cavity searches regardless of the crime charged and without having reasona…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Walsh v. City and County of Honolulu

1:05-cv-00378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: June 9, 2005

Closed Date: 2007

On June 9, 2005, a group of individuals whose applications for employment with the City and County of Honolulu had been rejected brought a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court District of Hawaii to challenge constitutionality of Hawaii's statutory pre-employment residency requirement for public employment. The law in question, Hawaii Revised Statute Section 78-1(c), provided: All persons seeking employment with the government of the State or in the servi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
O'Bannon v. Friedman's

8:03-cv-00623 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 6, 2003

Closed Date: May 14, 2009

On March 6th, 2003, African American employees of Friedman's jewelry store filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 against Friedman's Inc., along with Federal Insurance Company and St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company. The lawsuit was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Southern Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought equitable and injunctive relief, alleging that they had suffered a racially hostile work environment, discriminatory policies an…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Collins v. Reish

4:08-cv-00345 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2008

Closed Date: 2011

On February 25, 2008 a group of pre-trial detainees at Northumberland County Prison filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against the Northumberland County Prison and the Northumberland County Prison Board. Their cause of action was 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and they alleged violations of the First, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically they claim that there was inadequate medical care, dental care, and mental health care. They claimed…