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JAIL CONDITIONS
Inmates of D.C. Jail v. Jackson

1:75-cv-01668 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1975

Closed Date: 2003

On October 7, 1975, post-trial detainees at the District of Columbia jail brought a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that various conditions at the jail were unconstitutional. The plaintiff class was represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. On May 24, 1976, the District Court (Judge William Benson Bryant) granted the plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment by hold…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duran v. Martinez

1:77-cv-00721 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1977

On 11/15/1977, prisoners of the Penitentiary of New Mexico, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of New Mexico against the Governor of New Mexico and officials of the New Mexico Department of Corrections. In the first amended complaint, the plaintiffs alleged that "the totality of the overcrowding and other conditions at PNM fall beneath standards of human decency, inflict needless suffering on p…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sandoval v. Lopez

1:02-cv-00170 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2002

Closed Date: 2005

On Feb. 12, 2002, plaintiff Anthony J. Sandoval, a prisoner at New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe, filed a Section 1983 suit, pro se, in the District of New Mexico against officials of the New Mexico Department of Corrections. Plaintiff alleged that defendants used excessive force in violation of his Eighth Amendment rights. In October 2002, plaintiffs in a related class action suit, Ayers v. Perry (PC-NM-003), sought to consolidate the two cases arguing that both lawsuits "involve con…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Crowe v. Erickson

4:72-cv-04101 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1972

On November 21, 1972, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 suit in the District Court for the Southern Division of South Dakota against the warden, prison officials, and the Governor. Plaintiffs complained of punishment for violations of prison rules without due process of law, prison officials reading and censoring incoming and outgoing mail, poor medical treatment, inadequate religious and cultural protections, inadequate work release and employment programs, a…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hayden v. Pataki

1:00-cv-08586 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2000

Closed Date: 2006

On November 9, 2000, Plaintiffs filed this class action against the State of New York and its State Board of Elections in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Plaintiffs, Black and Latino individuals who had been convicted of felonies under the laws of the state of New York and were incarcerated in the New York prison system or on parole, claimed that pursuant to New York Election Law § 5-106(2), they were not permitted to vote in state or federal elections, i…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind v. O'Neill

1:02-cv-00864 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 3, 2002

In 2002, the American Council of the Blind and two individuals with visual impairments filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer of the United States under § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs challenged the Treasury Department's failure to make paper banknotes that are independently usable by persons who are blind or visually impaired and sought declarat…
POLICING
U.S. v. Prince George's County, Maryland

8:04-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 2004

In July 1999, the U.S. Department of Justice [DOJ] initiated an investigation pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 14141 of alleged misconduct by the Canine Section of the Prince George's County Police Department [PGPD]. The investigation followed some eighteen civil rights lawsuits filed between 1993 through 1998 by individuals that alleged dog attacks by the PGPD's canine unit. In October 2000, the DOJ expanded the scope of its investigation to include broader allegations of excessive force. The DOJ and t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roe v. Crawford

2:05-cv-04333 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

On October 12, 2005, plaintiff filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri against the Missouri Department of Corrections [DOC], challenging the DOC's refusal to transport plaintiff to an off-site medical clinic so that she could receive a nontherapeutic abortion. The complaint alleged that that the prison's policy that female prisoners would not be sent out of their institutions for abortions that were not medically necessary depri…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. ERNST & YOUNG, LLP

2:03-cv-04277 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

The Philadelphia office of the EEOC brought this suit against Ernst & Young LLP, an accounting firm, in September 2003, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The complainant alleged that the defendant engaged in hostile work environment and quid pro quo sexual harassment (under Title VII and NJ state law), retaliation, defamation, and invasion of her privacy. Specifically, complainant alleges that her supervisor, a lesbian, repeatedly retaliated against her because she de…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Arizona Public Service

6:06-cv-00865 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

In September 2006, the Albuquerque Area Office and Phoenix District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico alleging discrimination on the basis of disability in violation of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendant terminated the complainant's employment at a power plant due to a perceived disability. Following some discovery, the parties settled the lawsuit in June 2007 t…