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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Medley v. Ginsberg

2:78-cv-02099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: April 21, 1978

Closed Date: 2001

On April 21, 1978, the Executive Director of the, Kanawha Putnam Association for Retarded Children and an individual plaintiff, represented by Mountain State Justice, Inc., filed this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia (Charleston) to redress alleged deprivation of the constitutional rights of all children and young adults with intellectual disabilities institutionalized by the State of West Virginia.Plaintiffs alleged depr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Women Prisoners of DC Department of Corrections v. District of Columbia

1:93-cv-02052 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1993

Closed Date: 2004

On October 1, 1993, a group of female prisoners of the District of Columbia filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the District of Columbia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by sexual abuse from prison staff, who they claimed had used physical force and threats of physical forc…
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
ACORN v. Edgar

1:95-cv-00174 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 1995

Closed Date: 1995

On January 11, 1995, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Equip for Equality, and several individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the State of Illinois in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, asking the court to compel the defendants to enforce the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), 42 U.S.C. Section 1973gg, et seq., usually known as the Motor Voter law. The defendants counterargued that the law in question was unconsti…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. ROBERT L REEVES & ASSOCIATES

2:00-cv-10515 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2000

Closed Date: 2002

In September 2000, the Los Angeles District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against the law firm Robert L Reeves & Associates in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, and pregnancy-based discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. However i…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Williams v. Mohawk Industries

4:04-cv-00003 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2004

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2010

On January 6, 2004, current and former employees of Mohawk Industries Inc., a giant carpet and rug manufacturer, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, alleging that Mohawk engaged in a massive scheme to hire undocumented immigrants for the express purpose of depressing employee wages.In furtherance of their scheme, defendants were alleged to have: traveled to border towns to recruit undocumented immigrants to work in their plants, provided transpo…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McDaniel v. Schenectady County

1:04-cv-00757 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: June 29, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

On June 29, 2004, two females who, earlier, had been arrested for misdemeanors and now were represented, for civil case purposes, by private attorneys from Washington, D.C. and New York, filed a class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the North District of New York. They alleged that the Schenectady County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered the Schenecta…
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…