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JAIL CONDITIONS
Little v. Shelby County

2:96-cv-02520 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 14, 1996

Closed Date: 2005

On May 14, 1996, an inmate at the County Jail of Shelby County, Tennessee, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the County of Shelby in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Memphis Division. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that excessive violence at the Jail and insufficient guard presence resulted in his gang-related rape in violation of his Eighth Amendment rights. On July 1, 1996, …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jolly v. Coughlin

1:92-cv-09026 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 1992

Closed Date: 2000

On December 15, 1992, a Rastafarian inmate at the Southport Correctional Facility in Pine City, New York filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) 42 U.S.C. §2000b, against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the defendants had violated his constitutional rights by s…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Goff v. Maschner

4:97-cv-90341 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: May 14, 1997

On May 14, 1997, thirty-five inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary who were professed members of the Church of New Song (CONS) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the warden of Iowa State Penitentiary in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Many inmates were either dismissed or failed to pay the court-filing fee so that the case finally included only fourteen named plaintiffs. Additionally, the case name was changed from Goff v. Mascher to Goff v. Graves when t…
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. QWEST COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION and US WEST COMMUNICATIONS INC

3:01-cv-01136 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: July 24, 2001

Closed Date: 2008

EEOC's San Francisco and Seattle office jointly filed this Title VII lawsuit alleging discrimination based on national origin. The lawsuit was filed at the United States District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland) on 07/24/2001. EEOC alleged on behalf of a class of eight employees at defendant's Portland, Oregon facility that they were denied promotion to management jobs because they were Hispanics. The defendant Qwest Communications Corp. acquired US West Communications, Inc. which…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Colindres v. Quietflex Manufacturing

4:01-cv-04319 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2001

On October 10, 2001, a group of Latino workers filed a lawsuit under of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq., and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. against Quietflex Manufacturing Co., in the United States District Court of the Western District of Texas, though it was subsequently transferred to the Southern District. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and eventually the EEOC, asked the Court for injunctive and declaratory relief, …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Spectrum Health Worth Home Care

1:05-cv-00446 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 28, 2005

Closed Date: 2009

In June of 2005, the Detroit District Office of the EEOC filed suit in U.S District Court for the Western District of Michigan against Spectrum Health Worth Home Care, a provider of in-home health care. The suit alleged that two female African-American employees were sexually and racially harassed and sexually assaulted by a patient to whom they were assigned. According to the EEOC, their employer violated Title VII when it failed to remedy or take steps to prevent this harassment. Shortly afte…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh

3:85-cv-03255 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 7, 1985

Closed Date: May 24, 1999

On July 7, 1985, religious and refugee service organizations and two individual undocumented aliens brought a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against various government officials, including the United States Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, challenging prosecutions for harboring undocumented aliens. The plaintiffs contended that the defendants' application of immigration laws violated the First Amendment and equal protection. The plaintiff…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arias v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

0:07-cv-01959 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: April 19, 2007

Closed Date: Feb. 2, 2010

On April 19, 2007, a group of Latino plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, challenging a series of raids by immigration agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division ("ICE") and local police officials in and around Willmar, Minnesota, between April 10 - 14, 2007. The plaintiffs sued ICE, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), and various ICE and DHS officials and officers in their official capacity (“United States defendant…