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JAIL CONDITIONS
Winston v. Speybroeck/Nagy

3:94-cv-00150 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 1994

Closed Date: 2001

On February 15, 1994, inmates in the St. Joseph County Jail in South Bend, Indiana, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against prison officials, challenging the conditions of confinement, including overcrowding. The incarcerated people were represented by private counsel. On October 18, 1994, the court (Chief Judge Allan Sharp), determined that the lawsuit should be maintained as a class action and consolidated …
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. Go Daddy Software Inc

2:04-cv-02062 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2004

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2011

In September 2004, the EEOC district office of Phoenix, Arizona brought this suit against Go Daddy Software, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The EEOC claimed that a Muslim male, born in Morocco, was unlawfully discriminated against because of his national origin and religion in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Specifically, the EEOC claimed that Go Daddy retaliated against the plaintiff for reporting…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. DIAL CORPORATION

1:99-cv-03356 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 20, 1999

Closed Date: 2005

The Chicago District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against the Dial Corporation, who makes soap and other hygiene products, in May 1999, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was based on sexual harassment and retaliation claims in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The docket indicates that the parties had numerous discovery motions, mostly protective orders and orders to compel, and two individuals intervened. The defendant file…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.

2:00-cv-02916 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2000

Closed Date: Aug. 28, 2003

In September 2000, the Memphis District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Northwest Airlines, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee alleging discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Specifically, the defendant allegedly refused to hire the charging party because of his disability, diabetes. The charging party intervened in the suit in late January 2001. After some scheduling orders and numerous discovery disputes, …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. KROGER FOOD STORES

4:99-cv-04187 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 1999

Closed Date: 2001

The Chicago office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, against Kroger Food Stores. The complaint was filed in August 1999 and Defendant moved for summary judgment in March 2000, but the motion was denied in July 2000. Defendant moved for summary judgment again in September 2000, but the motion was again denied in January 2001. In February 2001 the case went to trial, but after two days the parties settled. The only document that we…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
King v. Walker

1:06-cv-00204 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 2006

Closed Date: 2015

On January 13, 2006, Illinois parolees who were re-arrested for alleged parole violations filed this class action complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) arguing that they had been unconstitutionally denied a timely parole revocation hearing. For violations of their constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amend…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Disability Law Center v. Massachusetts Department of Correction

1:07-cv-10463 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 8, 2007

Closed Date: 2017

On March 8, 2007, the Disability Law Center ("DLC") filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §12131, and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §794 against the Massachusetts Department of Correction ("DOC"). The DLC is the agency designated by the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act, 42 U.S.C. §§10801 et seq. to pursue legal, administrative, and oth…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Rose v. Saginaw County

2:01-cv-10337 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2001

On October 9, 2001, a group of pre-trial detainees represented by private counsel filed a class action civil rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, challenging the naked confinement policy of the Saginaw County Jail. Plaintiffs alleged that, under the policy, the County Sheriff and deputies placed detainees they found to be uncooperative or disruptive in administrative segregation cells, after being stripped naked. Plainti…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Barnett v. County of Contra Costa

3:04-cv-04437 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 20, 2004

Closed Date: 2011

On October 20, 2004, a woman who had been subjected to a strip search after being charged with resisting arrest filed a class action civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the Contra Costa County Sheriff's policies, practices, and customs concerning the use of strip searches and visual body cavity searches in the Contra Costa County Jail. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, alleged that she was arrested on March 1, 2004 …