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JAIL CONDITIONS
Campbell v. McGruder

1:71-cv-01462 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 21, 1971

Closed Date: 2004

On July 21, 1971, pre-trial detainees at the District of Columbia Jail filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the mayor of the District of Columbia and jail officials. The complaint sought declaratory and injunctive relief for a long list of violations of the inmates' Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional rights. These included overcrowding, inadequate food, denial of access to counsel, inadequate medical services…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Anderson v. Bayh

3:83-cv-00481 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 1983

On February 13, 1986, inmates at the Westville Correctional Center in Westville, Indiana, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against prison officials in the District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the Valparaiso University Clinical Program, the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU National Prison Project, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging vio…
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…
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. …
PUBLIC HOUSING
Jaimes v. Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority

3:74-cv-00068 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 1974

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is a class action lawsuit brought by low-income residents of the metropolitan area of Toledo, Ohio against the Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority. The plaintiffs alleged that Toledo engaged in racially discriminatory conduct in the provision and location of low-income housing and sought to enjoin Toledo from engaging in such discriminatory behavior.
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 …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Disability Law Center v. Massachusetts Department of Correction

1:07-cv-10463 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 8, 2007

Closed Date: 2017

On March 8, 2007, the Disability Law Center ("DLC") filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §12131, and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §794 against the Massachusetts Department of Correction ("DOC"). The DLC is the agency designated by the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act, 42 U.S.C. §§10801 et seq. to pursue legal, administrative, and oth…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Gonzalez v. City of Schenectady

1:00-cv-00824 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: May 30, 2000

Closed Date: 2002

On May 30, 2000, three Plaintiffs filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state common law against the City of Schenectady and five Schenectady police officers in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked for compensatory and punitive damages, alleging they were strip-searched pursuant to an unconstitutional city policy in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.On April 1, 1998, Plaintiff C.F. was in …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank

1:94-cv-04094 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 8, 1994

Closed Date: May 12, 1998

Plaintiffs filed their class action lawsuit on July 6, 1994, alleging that Citibank had engaged in redlining practices in the Chicago metropolitan area in violation of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), 15 U.S.C. 1691; the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619; the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; and 42 U.S.C. 1981, 1982. Plaintiffs alleged that the defendant-bank rejected loan applications of minority applicants while approving loan applications filed by white applicants w…