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JAIL CONDITIONS
Marion County Jail Inmates v. Cottey

1:72-00424 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 1972

Closed Date: 2007

Starting in 1972, Marion County Jail in Indiana was the subject of a long-running case to improve its conditions. One of the results of that case was a federal injunction putting a cap on the maximum population size of the jail. We do not have much information on this initial phase of the litigation. What we do know is that after the passage of PLRA, on July 21, 1997, officials at the jail asked the court to lift the population cap so it could put in bunk beds and house an additional one hundre…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harper v. Bennett

1:04-cv-01416 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 19, 2004

Closed Date: 2015

On May 19, 2004, inmates at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued Fulton County and the Georgia Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the conditions of their confinement under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The class action suit, brought on behalf of inmates who were currently or would be incarcerated in the future at the Fulton County Jail facilities in Atla…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Collegeville/Imagineering

2:05-cv-03033 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2005

Closed Date: Nov. 19, 2009

In September 2005, the Phoenix District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Collegeville/Imagineering and Rubie's Costume Company, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona 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 defendant created a hostile work environment culminating in the constructive discharge of one complaining party. Following discovery and su…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. WORTHINGTON, MOORE, & JACOBS

1:04-cv-03127 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2004

Closed Date: July 18, 2011

On September 30, 2004, the EEOC's Baltimore Office filed suit against Worthington, Moore, & Jacobs, a collection agency operating out of Ellicott City, Maryland. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 2000e), alleged that the company president sexually harassed a number of female employees, and that the company retaliated against those who complained. On February 19, 2009, the court (Judge Everett…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Outback Steakhouse

8:99-cv-02218 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 1999

Closed Date: 2004

The Miami District office of the EEOC filed suit against Outback Steakhouse of Florida, Inc. on September 30, 1999 in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida. The EEOC claimed that Outback violated Title VII and the Equal Pay Act of 1963 when it discriminated against the intervenor employee based on sex (female), paid her less money than her male counterparts, transferred her based on retaliation, attempted to force her to sign an illegal release concerning her rights under T…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Cazenave v. Foti

2:00-cv-01246 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 25, 2000

Closed Date: 2018

On April 25, 2000, three named plaintiffs in Louisiana and Kentucky filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court the Eastern District of Louisiana. Represented by private council, they sued the Orlean's Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office (OPCSO), challenging the strip and visual body cavity search policy of the Orleans Parish Jail in Louisiana. The plaintiffs, who were arrested for minor offenses, alleged that they were strip searched pursuant to a b…
CHILD WELFARE
Nicholson v. Williams

1:00-cv-02229 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 17, 2000

Closed Date: 2007

The plaintiffs in this case are mothers in New York who have been subjected to domestic violence, and as a result, had the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) remove their children from their custody. Represented by the Sanctuary for Families, Lawyers for Children, and the New York Legal Aid Society, they each brought suit, separately, in 2000 in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, against ACS. Their cases were then consolidated and converted to a class action in Janua…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Walker v. Floyd County

4:07-cv-00014 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2007

On February 6, 2007, inmates confined at the Floyd County, Indiana Jail filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, alleging that they became infected with a virulent, penicillin-resistant staph infection as a result of the deliberate indifference of Jail personnel. Plaintiffs alleged that they were thereby deprived without due process of law of their right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth an…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Torres v. Goddard

2:06-cv-02482 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2006

Closed Date: July 17, 2018

This case is one of a pair of lawsuits filed against the Arizona Attorney General to challenge his practice of seizing money wire transferred to Mexico through Western Union. In an attempt to curtail the smuggling of undocumented immigrants by trafficking organizations (known as "coyotes") from Mexico to Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General had obtained warrants and seized millions of dollars of money that was wire transferred to Mexico. The Attorney General focused on amounts over $500, which…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karraker v. Rent-A-Center Inc.

2:02-cv-02026 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2002

Closed Date: 2005

On January 28, 2002, current and former employees, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, sued their employer, Rent-A-Center, Inc. (RAC), in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. and state laws. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief as well as class certification. On March 22, 2002, the plaintiffs amended their complaint, and…