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PRISON CONDITIONS
Krug v. Lutz

4:99-cv-00362 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: July 13, 1999

Closed Date: 2007

On July 13, 1999, a state prison inmate in Arizona, filed a pro se complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona under 42 U.S.C. §1983. The complaint alleged that state corrections officials violated the plaintiff's right to procedural due process by denying him his publications and failing to provide adequate medical care. Krug's claims of inadequate medical care were dismissed on January 6, 2000. Previously, in 1973, inmates in the Arizona state prison system and the Arizon…
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. AutoZone, INC.

2:06-cv-00926 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 30, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

On March 30, 2006, the Phoenix District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiff sued the automobile repairer AutoZone, Inc. under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The plaintiff, representing a female employee of AutoZone Inc., asked the court for monetary relief for the complainant and injunctive relief enjoining the defendant from future discrimination on the basis of sex. Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that her…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Evans v. Saar

1:06-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

On January 19, 2006, a death-sentenced inmate of the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center in Baltimore, Maryland filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Maryland Department of Correction in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiff, whose execution was scheduled to take place during the week of February 6, 2006, sought a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction enjoining the defendants from carrying out his execution using their current p…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC) or the Erie County Correctional Facili…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Williams v. Kaufman County

3:97-cv-00875 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 21, 1997

Closed Date: Oct. 7, 2004

This case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas by persons subjected to strip-searches which occurred at a nightclub during a drug bust. 17 people sued; four were later dismissed. Most plaintiffs settled for $65,400 to be distributed among them. Three went on to trial, and were awarded $100 each in nominal damages and $15,000 each in punitive damages against the sheriff. The court denied the injunction, saying it would be unnecessary/redundant. Williams v. Kauf…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Perez-Farias v. Global Horizons, Inc.

2:05-cv-03061 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: July 12, 2005

Closed Date: 2014

On July 12, 2005, three U.S. orchard workers from Yakima Valley who had been denied or terminated from agricultural employment, brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Represented by Columbia Legal Services and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued Global Horizons, Green Acre Farms, Platte River Insurance Company, and Valley Fruit Orchards, under the Migrants and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (29 U.S.C. § 1801), the Farm…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. Richardson Independent School District

3:70-cv-04101 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 1970

Closed Date: 2013

This case was originally part of United States v. Texas Education Agency but was later separated and became an independent case. On 08/19/1970, United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division filed a complaint against Richardson Independent School District, among other Texas school districts, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The U.S. sought an injunction prohibiting the defendant school districts from discriminating against Black students on the basis of …
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Brown v. Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration

3:00-cv-00665 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: July 13, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 5, 2010

On July 13, 2000 a group of developmentally disabled individuals and two advocacy organizations filed suit against the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities in the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. On September 11, 2000 the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration was substituted as the defendant. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendants were violating the Medicaid Act by denying them the opportunity to apply for community …