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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 …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Carty v. Farrelly

3:94-cv-00078 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: June 20, 1994

On June 20, 1994, inmates of the Criminal Justice Complex in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and others, sued the Governor of the Virgin Islands and the Virgin Islands Bureau of Corrections; they asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their cons…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LOCKHEED MARTIN

1:05-cv-00479 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2005

Closed Date: Jan. 16, 2010

In August 2005, the EEOC filed suit against aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin in U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, alleging that a black employee was subjected to racial harassment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The complaint further alleged that the employee was laid off in retaliation for complaining about the discrimination. The charging party intervened in the case in addition to filing his own suit (1:05-cv-00496). The two cases were subsequently cons…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society and/or Omaha Woodmen Life Insurance Society

8:03-cv-00165 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: April 29, 2003

Closed Date: July 24, 2007

In April 2003, the Denver District Office and Dallas, Saint Louis, and Washington, DC Offices of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, also known as Omaha Woodmen Life Insurance Society, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendants subjected the complaining par…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Allstate Insurance Co

2:01-cv-07042 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 27, 2001

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2018

On December 27, 2001, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit alleged that Allstate sought to convert all of its employee-agents into independent contractors. Employee-agents were informed that they would all be terminated by June 30, 2000. However, if employees signed a broad release, they could continue working for Allstate as independent contractors. The release encompassed all claims und…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Cazenave v. Foti

2:00-cv-01246 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 25, 2000

Closed Date: 2018

On April 25, 2000, three named plaintiffs in Louisiana and Kentucky filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court the Eastern District of Louisiana. Represented by private council, they sued the Orlean's Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office (OPCSO), challenging the strip and visual body cavity search policy of the Orleans Parish Jail in Louisiana. The plaintiffs, who were arrested for minor offenses, alleged that they were strip searched pursuant to a b…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Johnson v. District of Columbia

1:02-cv-02364 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2002

Closed Date: 2013

On December 2, 2002, nine female plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed this 42 U.S.C §1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs challenged the practice of the U.S. Marshal's Service and the District of Columbia of conducting blanket strip, visual body cavity, and/or squat searches ("strip searches") of female arrestees that were being held in the Superior Court Cell Block of the D.C. Superior Court while awaiting presentment b…
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
Rosalino Perez-Benites v. Candy Brand LLC

1:07-cv-01048 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 7, 2007

Closed Date: 2013

On June 7, 2007, attorneys with the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class action lawsuit in the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas on behalf of about 2,700 Mexican migrant workers who entered the United States with H-2A visas and harvested and packed tomatoes and performed other agricultural work in Bradley County, Ark., from 2002 to 2007. Plaintiffs alleged that the employers violated the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. by failing to pay …