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JAIL CONDITIONS
Inmates of Suffolk County Jail v. Rufo

1:71-cv-00162 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 1971

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 1999

In 1971, incarcerated individuals of the Suffolk County Jail (also known as the Charles Street Jail) in Boston, Massachusetts filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against the Sheriff of Suffolk County, the Commissioner of Correction for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Mayor of Boston, and several City Councilors. After the parties agreed to a partial judgment and the court held a short trial on the merits, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Judge W. Arth…
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Los Angeles

2:00-cv-11769 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2000

Closed Date: 2013

On November 3, 2000, the United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California under 42 U.S.C. §14141, alleging that the City of Los Angeles, its Board of Police Commissioners and its Police Department (collectively the "LAPD") deprived individuals of their constitutional rights through the use of excessive force, false arrests and improper searches and seizures. The suit was an offshoot of a lengthy internal investigation of the LAPD's Rampart Divisi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Vivendi Universal Studios

2:03-cv-07023 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2003

Closed Date: June 25, 2008

In September 2003, the Los Angeles and New York District Offices and San Diego Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against the collective enterprises making up Universal Pictures (Vivendi Universal SA, Vivendi Universal Group LLP, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios LLLP, Vivendi Universal Entertainment LLLP, Universal City Studios LLLP, Universal Pictures Inc.) in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging discrimination on the basis of race in violation of Ti…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Sbarro's Italian Eatery

2:00-cv-00774 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 13, 2004

In September 2000, the U.S. Attorney's Office, Salt Lake City Attorneys Office, Phoenix District Office and Albuquerque Area Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against restaurant chain Tri-Spur Investment Company (aka Tri-Spur Investments, Inc., Sbarro's Italian Eatery), Tri-Spur Investment LLC (aka Tri Spur Investment II LLC, Sbarro's Italian Eatery) and Berkley Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, in violati…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Ramirez v. Cintas Corporation

3:04-cv-00281 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2004

On January 20, 2004, Cintas Corporation employees filed a lawsuit against Cintas under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq., the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, and the California Unfair Business Practices Act, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, represented initially by private counsel, asked the Court for declaratory, equitable, and compensatory relief, claiming that Cintas…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Leatherwood v. Campbell

7:02-cv-02812 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2002

Closed Date: 2006

On November 18, 2002, HIV positive inmates at the Limestone Correctional Facility in Capshaw, Alabama filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama to challenge their treatment and conditions of confinement. Plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and private civil rights attorneys, alleged that they were denied adequate medical treatment and were subjected to deplorable living conditions. Defendants i…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Spinner v. City of New York

1:01-cv-02715 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 2, 2001

Closed Date: June 4, 2004

In 2001, private attorneys representing individual plaintiffs filed several civil rights lawsuits pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The cases challenged allegedly improper strip searches and unsanitary and inhumane conditions of confinement at the Brooklyn Central Booking facility. Plaintiffs alleged that police had a blanket policy of strip searching all individuals who entered the Brooklyn Central Booking facility, regardless of th…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Hawkins v. Compartet-Cassani

2:98-cv-05605 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 13, 1998

Closed Date: 2002

On July 13, 1998, a person who was a convicted burglar filed a civil complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He was represented by private counsel and later aided by amicus counsel who appeared in the case on behalf of Amnesty International. The plaintiff alleged that his Fourth and Eighth Amendment constitutional rights were violated when the defendants (the state court judge, Los Angeles County, and associated officials respo…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sundstrom and Fields v. Frank

2:06-cv-00112 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2006

Closed Date: May 23, 2012

On January 24, 2006, two transgender state prisoners in various Wisconsin prisons filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Division. Represented by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., the ACLU Foundation, Inc., the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation, Inc., and private counsel, Plaintiffs brought this lawsuit against various officials from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDC) and staff from the various state prisons. Plaintif…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Trollinger v. Tyson Foods, Inc.

4:02-cv-00023 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: April 2, 2002

Closed Date: Oct. 20, 2008

In December 2001, a federal grand jury returned a 36-count indictment against Tyson Foods, Inc., the world's largest poultry processor, and several individuals, charging the defendants with conspiring to smuggle undocumented aliens into the U.S. and employing them at Tyson's chicken processing plants throughout the country. Shortly after the criminal indictment, plaintiffs filed a nationwide class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee against Tyson and several…