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JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Sheriff [USDOJ CRIPA Case]

2:15-cv-05903 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2015

On June 6, 1996, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Los Angeles County that it intended to investigate conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail system (the Jails) pursuant to the Civil Rights of the Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In August of 1996, the DOJ toured the Jails with correctional mental health experts. The investigation found that the Jails were failing to provide care meeting constitutional standards to mentally ill inmates. On September 5, 1997, the DOJ…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Women Prisoners of DC Department of Corrections v. District of Columbia

1:93-cv-02052 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1993

Closed Date: 2004

On October 1, 1993, a group of female prisoners of the District of Columbia filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the District of Columbia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by sexual abuse from prison staff, who they claimed had used physical force and threats of physical forc…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Harvey v. Schoen

3:72-cv-00073 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: March 8, 1972

Closed Date: 1999

In 1972, a class of incarcerated and former inmates at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Stillwater filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections. The complaint alleged that disciplinary rules and regulations at the prison violated their rights under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments and federal and state statutes. The plaintiffs were represented by private counsel. The parties entered into an agreement regarding disciplinary policies. Judge Phillip …
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
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Moore v. Rees

3:06-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 19, 2006

Closed Date: 2015

On April 19, 2006, the plaintiff, a death row inmate in Kentucky represented by private counsel, filed a lawsuit against the Kentucky Department of Corrections, the warden of the Kentucky State Penitentiary, the medical director of the Kentucky Department of Corrections, and the governor of Kentucky in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The plaintiff sought a temporary restraining order, injunctive and declaratory relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of his E…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Flynn v. Doyle

2:06-cv-00537 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 1, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2016

On May 1, 2006, attorneys for the National Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation and the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation Inc. filed a civil rights class action in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of female inmates incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional Institution (“TCI”) in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The plaintiffs alleged that their conditions of confinement violated their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United St…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Evans v. Atwood

1:96-cv-02746 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 1996

Closed Date: 2002

On December 12, 1996, several former Foreign Service employees of the United States Agency for International Development filed a lawsuit under 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), against the Agency and the Agency's former Administrator in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs were terminated by the Agency as part of its reduction in force ("RIF") in 1996 and allege that the defendants intentionally discriminated against them on…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless v. Barry

1:93-cv-00691 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 5, 1993

Closed Date: March 4, 1997

In 1984, voters in Washington, DC (The District) passed the Right to Overnight Shelter Act (ROSA) which guaranteed to all homeless people in the District the right to adequate overnight shelter. Later the City Council passed a law that created an emergency shelter program for eligible families; this program was approved by and partially funded by the federal government via the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. The city council later amended these laws to explicitly state that an …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Parra v. Bashas', Inc.

2:02-cv-00591 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 4, 2002

Closed Date: 2015

On April 4, 2002, current and former Hispanic employees of Bashas', Inc. filed a class action in the U.S. District Court of Arizona under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and 42 U.S.C. § 1981, against Bashas'. The plaintiffs, represented by an Impact Fund attorney and private counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief as well as class certification. They alleged national origin and race discrimination of their employer in pay and working condit…