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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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harper v. Bennett

1:04-cv-01416 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 19, 2004

Closed Date: 2015

On May 19, 2004, inmates at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued Fulton County and the Georgia Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the conditions of their confinement under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The class action suit, brought on behalf of inmates who were currently or would be incarcerated in the future at the Fulton County Jail facilities in Atla…
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, …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Brown v. Secretary, Department of Corrections

2:03-cv-00526 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2003

Closed Date: Nov. 28, 2005

In the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, a group of state prisoners filed a class action complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on September 12, 2003. The plaintiffs' attorneys included lawyers of the Florida Institutional Legal Services, Inc., the Florida Justice Institute, Inc., the Southern Poverty Law Center, and private counsel. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as attorneys' fees, from the defendant state officials, basing their compl…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Young v. County of Cook

1:06-cv-00552 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2006

Closed Date: 2016

On January 30, 2006, on behalf of a female and a male plaintiff, the Chicago civil rights law firm Loevy & Loevy filed this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The complaint challenged the Cook County Sheriff's blanket policy of requiring a strip and body cavity search of every detainee who entered the Cook County Jail for booking/intake, irrespective of the nature of the charge against the detainee and of whether there…
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
Doan v. Watson

4:99-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 1999

Closed Date: 2002

On January 13, 1999, attorneys from Indiana and Kentucky filed a civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, challenging the Floyd County Sheriff's blanket policy of requiring a strip and body cavity search as part of a delousing procedure of every detainee that entered the Floyd County Jail for booking/intake, irrespective of the nature of the charge against the detainee and whether or not there was any reasonable …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Lee v. Ashcroft

2:04-cv-00449 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 2004

Closed Date: 2009

On February 27, 2004, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging the policies and procedures used by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to adjudicate applications for naturalization. Plaintiffs alleged that the agency failed to apply the correct standard for determining whether applicants have "good moral character" and failed to adjudicate applications within 120 days as prescribed by law. Plainti…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rosiles-Perez v. Superior Forestry Service, Inc.

1:06-cv-00006 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

On January 25, 2006, a group of migrant forestry workers admitted to the U.S. under the H-2B foreign worker program filed suit against their employer, Superior Forestry Service, Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et. seq., and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act ("AWPA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801 et seq. Plaintiffs alleged that Superior and its officers failed to pay plain…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Black Fire Fighters Ass'n of Dallas v. City of Dallas, Tex.

3:88-cv-02304 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 1988

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 1994

On September 19, 1988, black employees of the City of Dallas Fire Department filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., against the City of Dallas. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for back pay and injunctive relief based upon allegations that the City of Dallas had discriminated on the basis of race regarding hiring and promotion…