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PUBLIC HOUSING
Tinsley v. Pierce

4:89-cv-00023 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 1989

On January 17, 1989, residents of T.B. Watkins Homes, a public housing development operated by the Housing Authority of Kansas City, Missouri, filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the State of Missouri in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by racial discri…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Grace Church

2:06-cv-05302 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2006

Closed Date: 2016

On September 28, 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed this lawsuit against Grace Episcopal Church of Whitestone, Inc (Grace Church). and Episcopal Diocese of Long Island (Diocese) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York alleging discrimination on the basis of sex and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendants subjected the female complaining party to a sexually host…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. L.A. Weight Loss

1:02-cv-00648 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2002

Closed Date: Dec. 1, 2018

In February 2002, the EEOC's Baltimore District Office filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against L.A. Weight Loss, a company that at the time operated over 400 "weight loss centers" nationwide. The complaint alleged a "pattern or practice" of failing to hire men, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The EEOC also alleged that L.A. Weight Loss fired a female employee in retaliation when she complained about the company's hiring practices. Sho…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Conectiv, and related cases

2:05-cv-03389 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 1, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

On July 1, 2005, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The EEOC sued four private corporations under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. The complaint asked the court for a permanent injunction and damages, including back pay and other monetary compensation. Suing on behalf of three named black employees and all others similarly situated, the EEOC cla…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McDaniel v. Schenectady County

1:04-cv-00757 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: June 29, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

On June 29, 2004, two females who, earlier, had been arrested for misdemeanors and now were represented, for civil case purposes, by private attorneys from Washington, D.C. and New York, 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. They alleged that the Schenectady County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered the Schenecta…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Taylor v. Crawford

2:05-cv-04173 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 28, 2005

Closed Date: Feb. 25, 2014

On July 28, 2005 a death-sentenced inmate of the Potosi Correctional Center in Washington County, Missouri, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Missouri Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. He claimed that there was a 43% chance that the defendants' planned lethal injection procedure would torture him and cause him unnecessary pain. He argued that this violated his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual pun…
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 …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. City of Warren

2:86-cv-75435 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 1986

Closed Date: 2003

On October 31, 1986, the U.S. Department of Justice ("D.O.J.") filed a lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e, against the City of Warren, Michigan and the City of Warren Police and Firefighter Civil Service Commission, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The D.O.J. sought injunctive relief, alleging defendants' advertising and recruitment practices had a discriminatory impact on blacks and that black applicants received disparate t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hugo Martin Recinos-Recinos v. Express Forestry Inc.

2:05-cv-01355 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 7, 2005

Closed Date: June 22, 2009

On April 7, 2005, attorneys with the Immigrant Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of over 300 predominantly Guatemalan and Mexican migrant workers, admitted to work in the U.S. pursuant to H-2B temporary foreign worker visa program, who planted trees and performed other forestry-related activities for Express Forestry Inc. Plaintif…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Tomlinson v. El Paso Corp.

1:04-cv-02686 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2004

Closed Date: 2012

On December 29, 2004, employees of El Paso Corporation filed a lawsuit under ERISA and the ADEA against their employer in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming that changes made to their pension plans violated federal law. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that their pension plans were negatively impacted when El Paso Corporation changed to…