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JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Sunflower County

4:95-cv-00122 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 20, 1995

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

In 1993, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Sunflower County of the Department's intention to investigate conditions at the County Jail in Indianola, Mississippi. The DOJ submitted findings as to problems and minimal remediation in 1993. Apparently after negotiation, the Attorney General filed an action under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. section 1997 et seq., against the jail in 1995. Six days later the District Court …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
W.C. v. DeBruyn

1:90-cv-00040 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 16, 1990

Closed Date: 2005

On January 16, 1990, juveniles at the Indiana Boys School, a correctional facility in Plainfield, Indiana, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all present and future students against the superintendent of the school and commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs, who were represented by Legal Services of Indiana, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
U.S. v. Essex County

2:87-cv-04829 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 1987

Closed Date: 2003

On January 6, 1986, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice [DOJ] notified the state of New Jersey that it intended to investigate the conditions of confinement at the Essex County Youth House at Newark, New Jersey pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. Following its investigation, the DOJ issued its findings letter on July 23 1986, which outlined various egregious conditions of confinement that existed at the facility…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Horton v. Williams

3:94-cv-05428 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 1994

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2001

On August 11, 1994, juvenile plaintiffs filed a § 1983 civil rights class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (Tacoma), challenging conditions of confinement at the Green Hill School (GHS). Plaintiffs were represented by attorneys for the National Center for Youth Law Columbia Legal Services and sought declaratory and injunctive relief.Plaintiffs amended their Complaint on August 17, 1994. Defendants moved to dismiss, which was denied by the District …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Plata v. Newsom

4:01-cv-01351 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2001

NOTE: Documents relating to the prison overcrowding proceedings in this case under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which led to imposition of a statewide prison population cap, affirmed by the Supreme Court, are presented in a different case record. See "related cases" below. Summary: On April 5, 2001, nine male California incarcerated persons filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, against officials of the California Department of C…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Bowers v. City of Philadelphia

2:06-cv-03229 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 24, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On July 24, 2006, pre-trial detainees in the Philadelphia Prison System [PPS] filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), challenging the conditions of their confinement. Plaintiffs, represented by the Institutional Law Project and private attorneys, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages. Plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by severe prison…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch

3:06-cv-02376 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 26, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On December 26, 2006 the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU), along with the ACLU's National Immigrants' Rights Project, filed a civil rights suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against the City of Farmers Branch, challenging the City's recently adopted Ordinance 2892. The Ordinance required landlords to verify the U.S. Citizenship or "eligible immigration status" of prospec…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. ERNST & YOUNG, LLP

2:03-cv-04277 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

The Philadelphia office of the EEOC brought this suit against Ernst & Young LLP, an accounting firm, in September 2003, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The complainant alleged that the defendant engaged in hostile work environment and quid pro quo sexual harassment (under Title VII and NJ state law), retaliation, defamation, and invasion of her privacy. Specifically, complainant alleges that her supervisor, a lesbian, repeatedly retaliated against her because she de…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. CARDIAC CONSULTANTS

1:99-cv-00584 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 1999

Closed Date: July 19, 2002

The Houston office of the EEOC brought this Title VII suit against Cardiac Consultants in September 1999, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The complainant alleged that the defendant harassed and constructively discharged her because of her race/national origin and the race (black) of her companion. The complainant intervened in the suit several months after initiation, and the court entered a consent decree approximately one month later. The two year consent decr…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. VICTORIA'S SECRET STORES, INC.

2:02-cv-06715 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 2002

Closed Date: June 27, 2003

In this Title VII case, brought in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by the EEOC's Philadelphia District Office in August 2002, the complaint alleged that the defendant, a nationwide chain of lingerie stores, subjected the charging party, a comanager of a Victoria's Secret store in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, to a hostile working environment because of her race (Black) and religion (Baptist) and failed to accommodate her need to attend religious services. The white store manager, white comanage…