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JAIL CONDITIONS
Benjamin v. Horn

1:75-cv-03073 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 24, 1975

This case was consolidated for enforcement purposes with Ambrose v. Malcolm; Detainees of Queens House of Detention v. Malcolm; Detainees of Brooklyn House of Detention for Men v. Malcolm; Maldonado v. Ciuros; Forts v. Malcolm; and Rosenthal v. Malcolm. The summary below includes all of these in the consolidated form, but more information about each individual case is included in the "Related Cases" section. On June 24, 1975, a group of pretrial detainees at Rikers Island Detention Center for M…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
U.S. v. District of Columbia

1:95-cv-00948 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 19, 1995

Closed Date: 1997

On August 19, 1991, the United States Department of Justice [DOJ] issued its findings letter to the mayor of Washington, DC providing details of its investigation of the Village Nursing Home (DC Village) conducted pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). DC Village was licensed as a long-term-care nursing home for geriatric patients but overflow from other institutions was causing additional residents to be placed in the facility. These residents included adults …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Rio Bravo International, Inc.

8:99-cv-01371 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 11, 1999

Closed Date: Nov. 14, 2005

In June 1999, the Tampa Area Office and Miami District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Rio Bravo International, Inc., Innovative Restaurant Concepts, Inc., and Applebee's International (doing business as Rio Bravo Cantina) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendants maintained a hostile work envir…
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
Spinner v. City of New York

1:01-cv-02715 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 2, 2001

Closed Date: June 4, 2004

In 2001, private attorneys representing individual plaintiffs filed several civil rights lawsuits pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The cases challenged allegedly improper strip searches and unsanitary and inhumane conditions of confinement at the Brooklyn Central Booking facility. Plaintiffs alleged that police had a blanket policy of strip searching all individuals who entered the Brooklyn Central Booking facility, regardless of th…
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
Maynor v. Morgan County, Ala.

5:01-cv-00851 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 5, 2001

On April 5, 2001, attorneys with the Southern Center for Human Rights and private counsel filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Morgan County Jail. The jail, which was alleged to have been old, antiquated, and structurally unfit for human habitation, housed both pre-trial detainees and convicted prisoners. Plaintiffs alleged that the Jail was severely overcrowded and that i…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Williams v. Kaufman County

3:97-cv-00875 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 21, 1997

Closed Date: Oct. 7, 2004

This case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas by persons subjected to strip-searches which occurred at a nightclub during a drug bust. 17 people sued; four were later dismissed. Most plaintiffs settled for $65,400 to be distributed among them. Three went on to trial, and were awarded $100 each in nominal damages and $15,000 each in punitive damages against the sheriff. The court denied the injunction, saying it would be unnecessary/redundant. Williams v. Kauf…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Whitaker v. Perdue

4:06-cv-00140 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 20, 2006

On June 20, 2006, six low-level sex offenders filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, against the state of Georgia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the ACLU of Georgia, challenged provisions of the state's new sex offender law that prevented sex offenders from living and working within one-thousand feet of school bus stops and churches. The plaintiffs had committed their crimes when they were young …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Castellanos-Contreras v. Decatur Hotels, LLC

2:06-cv-04340 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 25, 2010

On August 16, 2006, attorneys with the Immigrant Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Louisiana Justice Institute, and the National Immigration Law Center filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of about 300 H-2B guest workers who traveled to the U.S. to work in luxury hotels in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Plaintiffs alleged that their employer, Decatur Hotels, L.L.C., violated the Fair Labor Standar…