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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Baldridge v. Clinton

4:83-cv-01004 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 1983

Closed Date: 1991

On November 22, 1983, a lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against the Governor of Arkansas, the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS), and its Division of Mental Health Services (MHS), Mental Health Board, Division of Developmental Disability Services (DDS), and Developmental Disability Service Board. On September 24,1984, the court certified the class, which it defined as all institutionalized persons in the custody of DHS now and…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Crowe v. Erickson

4:72-cv-04101 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1972

On November 21, 1972, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 suit in the District Court for the Southern Division of South Dakota against the warden, prison officials, and the Governor. Plaintiffs complained of punishment for violations of prison rules without due process of law, prison officials reading and censoring incoming and outgoing mail, poor medical treatment, inadequate religious and cultural protections, inadequate work release and employment programs, a…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Forrey v. Federated Financial Services

0:01-cv-07089 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 27, 2001

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2012

In June 2001, the Miami District Office of the EEOC represented an employee in this suit in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, against Federated Financial Services alleging sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and state law. According to the complaint, female employees of the defendant were subjected to crude sexual remarks, and some of them were terminated when they complained. The plaintiff sought a declaratory judgment, compensat…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Doe v. Calumet City, Illinois

1:87-cv-03594 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 17, 1987

Closed Date: 1993

On April 17, 1987, a female arrestee filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, challenging the constitutionality of the strip-search policy of Calumet City, Illinois. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged that the Calumet City Police Department policy of strip-searching women who had been arrested for non-felony offenses, without any particularized belief that the arrestee possessed either a weapon or contraband violated the Fourth Amendment o…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Williams v. Mohawk Industries

4:04-cv-00003 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2004

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2010

On January 6, 2004, current and former employees of Mohawk Industries Inc., a giant carpet and rug manufacturer, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, alleging that Mohawk engaged in a massive scheme to hire undocumented immigrants for the express purpose of depressing employee wages.In furtherance of their scheme, defendants were alleged to have: traveled to border towns to recruit undocumented immigrants to work in their plants, provided transpo…
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…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
USA v. Arkansas

4:09-cv-00033 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Jan. 16, 2009

Closed Date: 2011

On April 24, 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division ("DOJ") sent a findings letter to Arkansas's governor, advising him of the results of the Spring 2003, DOJ investigation of conditions and practices at the Conway Human Development Center ("CHDC"), a facility housing developmentally disabled persons, including those with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and/or autism. The investigation occurred under the authority of the Civil Rights of Institutionali…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jackson v. Sheriff of Cook County

1:06-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2006

Closed Date: 2007

On January 27, 2006, on behalf of a male pretrial detainee, Chicago attorneys Kenneth N. Flaxman and Thomas G. Morrissey filed a civil rights class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The complaint, amended within days to add two additional plaintiffs and a third defendant, challenged the Cook County Sheriff's policy of subjecting each male pre-trial detainee to the non-consensual insertion of a swab into his pe…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Pugh

1:02-cv-01239 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 28, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

In this prison conditions case brought in 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, a federal prisoner in the U.S. Bureau of Prison's (BOP) Florence, Colorado Administrative Maximum (ADX) Detention Unit, claimed violation of First Amendment rights in his pro se federal tort claim against BOP officials. The defendants administered 28 C.F.R. 540.20, a BOP prison regulation restricting inmates from publishing articles under their bylines. The plaintiff, represented by the Univ…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
In re J.P. Morgan Chase Cash Balance Litigation

1:06-cv-00732 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2006

Closed Date: July 15, 2010

On January 31, 2006 a group of participants in J.P. Morgan Chase's Retirement Plan filed suit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq, in United Stated District Court of the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the Court for declaratory, injunctive and compensatory relief alleging that the defendant used cash balance formulas in a discriminatory manner based on age and for other viola…