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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
Carty v. Farrelly

3:94-cv-00078 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: June 20, 1994

On June 20, 1994, inmates of the Criminal Justice Complex in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and others, sued the Governor of the Virgin Islands and the Virgin Islands Bureau of Corrections; they asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their cons…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LOCKHEED MARTIN GLOBAL TELECOMMUNIC

8:05-cv-00287 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

On January 31, 2005, the Baltimore office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) against Lockheed Martin Corporation and Telenor Satellite Services, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of a complainant by conditioning her severance pay on the withdrawal of a complaint that she had filed against them with the EEOC. The EEOC further…
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…
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 …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rasho v. Snyder

3:00-cv-00528 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 1999

Closed Date: 2006

On January 7, 1999, Illinois state prisoners who had serious mental illnesses filed an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. These prisoners resided in a "super maximum" security correctional institution in Tamms, Illinois. They were represented by private counsel and attorneys from Northwestern University School of Law's MacArthur Justice Center and from the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. Counsel amended the complaint on Febr…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jackson v. Sheriff of Cook County

1:06-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2006

Closed Date: 2007

On January 27, 2006, on behalf of a male pretrial detainee, Chicago attorneys Kenneth N. Flaxman and Thomas G. Morrissey filed a civil rights class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The complaint, amended within days to add two additional plaintiffs and a third defendant, challenged the Cook County Sheriff's policy of subjecting each male pre-trial detainee to the non-consensual insertion of a swab into his pe…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Gamino v. Ventura County

2:02-cv-09785 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 24, 2002

On December 24, 2002, Plaintiff Gamino filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, raising Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment challenges against the Ventura County Sheriff's blanket policy of strip searching all individuals booked into the Ventura County Jail on suspicion of being under the influence of illegal drugs. Defendants answered Plaintiff's complaint by generally denying the allegations. On September 17, 2003, the Dist…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Amochaev v. Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

4:05-cv-01298 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 31, 2005

Closed Date: 2012

On March 31, 2005, a female employee of Citigroup Global Markets and its subsidiary, Smith Barney, filed a lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et. seq., and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, against Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in the United States District Court of the Northern District of California. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive and declaratory relief and damages, charging Citigroup and Smith Barney…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Pagliolo v. Guidant Corp.

0:06-cv-00943 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: March 1, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 24, 2008

On March 1st, 2006, a group of former employees of Guidant Corporation filed a lawsuit under 28 U.S.C. § 2201 against Guidant Corporation in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory judgment that the Severance Agreement and Release of Claims was invalid under the Older Workers Benefits Protection Act ("OWBPA"). The plaintiffs claimed that employment Releases given by Guidant Corporation failed …