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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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
WILFONG v. RENT A CENTER

3:00-cv-00680 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2000

Closed Date: 2006

This is a quite complex case, connected to two others:In May 1999, the EEOC filed a lawsuit (EEOC v Rent-A-Center, No 99-2427-TU-V) in Memphis, Tennessee, charging that RAC, when it acquired a competitor named Rentronics, terminated female employees and refused to hire female applicants in Tennessee and Arkansas because of their sex. In 2000, female employees filed two cases. One was in Kansas City (MO), filed by two women who claimed individual bias, and ordered to mandatory arbitration by th…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Marriott v. Montgomery County

5:03-cv-00531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: April 29, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

On April 29, 2003, a person represented by a group of private attorneys from New York and D.C. law firms 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, challenging the jail admission policy of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department. The policy, known as a "change-out" procedure, required that each admittee to be placed in the Montgomery County Jail had to remove his/her clothes, shower and then change in…
EDUCATION
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by any Means Necessary (BAMN) v. Granholm

2:06-cv-15024 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2006

Closed Date: April 24, 2014

Until and through the latter part of 2006, the University of Michigan's admissions policies allowed for the consideration of race among the factors it considered in making admissions decisions. In 2003, this policy was expressly approved by the United States Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003). On November 7, 2006, the people of Michigan approved by majority vote a statewide ballot initiative, Proposal 2, which amended the Michigan Constitution to prohibit discrimination …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
L.H. v. Schwarzennegger

2:06-cv-02042 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2006

Closed Date: 2014

On September 13, 2006, several Department of Juvenile Justice parolees filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. (They amended the complaint a week later.) The plaintiffs sued California and the persons and entities administering California's juvenile parole system under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In their complaint, they claimed that California's policies and practices regarding the revocation of juvenile parole violated the their constitutional rights to due…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bunch v. Rent-a-Center, Inc.

4:00-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: April 19, 2000

Closed Date: 2004

On April 19, 2000, a woman formerly employed by Rent-A-Center filed this action in the U.S. District Court of Western Illinois against her employer alleging sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, and retaliation. Her claims were brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Missouri state law. Specifically, the plaintiff alleged that she was sexually and physically harassed by her manager. The manager called the plaintiff several sexually explicit names, made explicit comments, and tol…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Hodczak v. Latrobe Specialty Steel Company

2:08-cv-00649 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 13, 2008

Closed Date: 2012

On May 13, 2008, the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Pennsylvania against Latrobe Specialty Steel Company. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought injunctive relief and damages on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated claiming that Latrobe violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. § 621. The plaintiffs alleged that Latrobe engaged in practices that discriminated against its older work force in conducting termination…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hart v. Sheahan

1:03-cv-01768 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 11, 2003

Closed Date: 2011

On March 11, 2003, Plaintiffs filed a civil rights action against the superintendent of the Cook County Jail in Chicago ("Jail") and Cook County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago Division. The controversy arose from a now discontinued practice in the Jail. Once a month, the Jail is locked down--the inmates are kept inside their cells to enable the correctional officers to search for weapons and contraband. The lockdowns occurred on…
POLICING
Floyd v. City of New York

1:08-cv-01034 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2008

This is one of four ongoing cases challenging the constitutionality of the New York Police Department's "Stop and Frisk" program. See Ligon v. City of New York; Daniels v. City of New York; Davis v. City of New York. On January 31, 2008, four African-American men who had been stopped and frisked in the City of New York brought this class § 1983 suit against the City in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rig…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management

3:10-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2010

Closed Date: 2013

On January 20, 2010, an employee of the federal judiciary married to her same-sex partner under California law filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201-2202, and the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 701-706, against the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The plaintiff, represented by private counsel and Lambda Legal, asked the court for declaratory and inj…