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PRISON CONDITIONS
Laube v. Haley

2:02-cv-00957 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2002

Closed Date: 2010

On August 19, 2002, female prisoners in Alabama filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The prisoners sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging conditions of their confinement under the Eighth Amendment. This class action suit, brought on behalf of all female state prisoners in Alabama, was based on the following claims of unconstitutional conditions: overcrowding, inadequate supervision in open dorms, inadequate inmate classification, inmate violence, th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Spain v. Procunier

3:73-01293 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 1973

Closed Date: 1983

On December 28, 1973, seven inmates at the Adjustment Center in the California State Prison in San Quentin, California filed a lawsuit 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 asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by the length and conditions of their confinement. In addition, they com…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Dillard v. Nevada Department of Prisons

3:89-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 1989

Closed Date: 1993

On 2/15/1989, female inmates housed within the Nevada Department of Prisons filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of Nevada, against officials of the Nevada Department of Prisons. Plaintiffs complained of inadequate vocational programs and maintenance at Nevada Department of Prisons institutions. Plaintiffs were represented by apparently private counsel.In February 1993, the parties submitted a stipulated settlement agreement that required defendants to encourage the entities…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Sheppard v. Phoenix

1:91-cv-04148 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 18, 1991

Closed Date: 2002

On June 18, 1991, an inmate at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility (RICF) in New York filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Warden of RICF in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff, who was later represented by the Legal Aid Society Prisoners' Rights Project of New York, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that his constitutional rights had been violated when correctional officers beat…
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. …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Mason v. Granholm

5:05-cv-73943 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2005

On October 13, 2005, current and former female prisoners filed a class-action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC). Plaintiffs were originally members of a certified class-action suit pending in Michigan state court, Neal v. MDOC, LC No. 96-006986-CZ. The Neal plaintiffs alleged violations of their state civil rights under the Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rig…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. COMMERCIAL COATING SERVICE, INC.

4:03-cv-03984 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2003

Closed Date: March 20, 2010

In September 2003, the EEOC district office in Houston, Texas brought this suit against Commercial Coating Service, Inc., a pipe coating contractor in the oil business, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The EEOC alleged race and color discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, a former employee of the defendant alleged that four co-workers constantly used racial slurs to refer to him, instead of his name. When he compl…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. K&B Louisiana Corporation (d/b/a Rite Aid)

3:00-cv-02238 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2000

Closed Date: Nov. 12, 2003

In September 2000, the New Orleans District Office and Houston Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision (EEOC) filed this lawsuit against drug store Rite Aid Corp. and K & B Louisiana Corp, doing business as Rite Aid Corp., in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana alleging discrimination on the basis of gender in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the fourth amended complaint alleged that the defendant did not consider rehi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Rio Bravo International, Inc.

8:99-cv-01371 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 11, 1999

Closed Date: Nov. 14, 2005

In June 1999, the Tampa Area Office and Miami District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Rio Bravo International, Inc., Innovative Restaurant Concepts, Inc., and Applebee's International (doing business as Rio Bravo Cantina) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendants maintained a hostile work envir…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Bellsouth Telecommunication, Inc.

1:01-cv-00087 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2001

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2005

In February 2001, the EEOC district office in Birmingham, Alabama brought this suit against Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc., a regional telephone and internet provider, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. Fourteen individuals intervened in the case. The complaints state that it was alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it refused to promote, training, or even test Black employees for promotion because of their race. …