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PRISON CONDITIONS
Inmates of Three Lorton Facilities v. District of Columbia

1:92-cv-01208 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 20, 1992

Closed Date: 2000

On May 20, 1992, inmates at three facilities of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging inadequate attention to the medical needs of inmates.After pre-trial proceedings, the parties settled the action, agreeing to a Consent Decree on November 22, 1994. The Decree stated that the defendants should increase numbers and hours of medical staff and that "sick call" should …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Fussell v. Wilkinson

1:03-cv-00704 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Oct. 14, 2003

Closed Date: 2012

On October 14, 2003, the Ohio Justice & Policy Center filed a class action lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on behalf of three prisoners who claimed that their health care was unconstitutionally inadequate. In particular, they cited staffing shortages, long delays in the provision of routine and emergency care, problems ordering and obtaining results of diagnostic tests, and inadequate contro…
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. International Profit Associates, Inc.

1:01-cv-04427 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 12, 2001

Closed Date: 2014

This case was filed by the Chicago office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in June 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The EEOC alleged that the defendant, a telemarketer of small business consulting packages based in Buffalo Grove, IL, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by carrying out a pattern or practice of discrimination by subjecting female employees to sexual harassment. EEOC also alleged the defendant made favorable employment act…
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
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Murphy

1:05-cv-01287 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 12, 2005

Closed Date: 2015

On May 12, 2005, male arrestees at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the warden of Central Booking, the Baltimore Police Department, the City of Baltimore, and other state officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the Court for injunctive relief, compensatory and consequential damages, and attorneys fees and costs. The plaintiffs al…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Americans United for Separation of Church and State v. Prison Fellowship Ministries

4:03-cv-90074 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2003

Closed Date: 2008

On February 12, 2003, a separation-of-church-and-state advocacy group and state prisoners sued the State of Iowa, Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC) officials, and certain vendors ("InnerChange" and "Prison Fellowship"), claiming violations of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause and the equivalent provision of the Iowa state constitution. The plaintiffs challenged a contract that provided for payments to vendor organizations for pre-release rehabilitation services at the DOC's Newton f…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McBean v. City of New York

1:02-cv-05426 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 15, 2002

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2010

On July 15, 2002, inmates of New York City jails filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of New York and jail officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the Court in a series of amended complaints for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the defendants had violated their constitutional rights by subjecting them to strip searches in the absence of re…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
LaGrand v. Lewis

4:92-cv-00026 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 1, 1992

Closed Date: April 14, 1999

After his murder conviction was affirmed, and his first petition for habeas corpus was denied, Karl LaGrand, an Arizona death row inmate, filed a second habeas corpus petition in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. In the second petition, which was filed in 1998, the plaintiff argued that the use of lethal gas as a means of execution violated his constitutional rights because it was cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Th…