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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Johnson v. Upchurch

4:86-cv-00195 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 6, 1986

On April 6, 1986, inmates at Catalina Mountain Juvenile Institution (now known as Catalina Mountain School) near Tucson, Arizona, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Education for the Handicapped Act against the former and acting superintendents of Catalina Mountain Juvenile Institution; the acting superintendent of Catalina Mountain; the director of the Arizona Department of Corrections; and the director of Juvenile Services for the Arizona Department of Corrections. The suit was f…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Inmates of Occoquan v. Barry

1:86-cv-02128 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1986

On August 4, 1986, the prisoners at the Occoquan Facilites of the District of Columbia's Lorton Correctional Complex filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the District of Columbia government officials responsible for these medium security facilities in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that overcrowding at the facility violated their Eighth Amendment rights, and that the District of Columbia repeatedly fai…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Skinner v. Uphoff

2:02-cv-00033 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2002

On February 15, 2002, inmates at Wyoming State Prison filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming against the director of the Wyoming Department of Correction and prison officers and administrators. The class consisted of all those who were or would be inmates at the Wyoming State Prison. The ACLU and private counsel represented the class. The plaintiffs sought damages and injunctive relief, alleging that the policies and practic…
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Los Angeles

2:00-cv-11769 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2000

Closed Date: 2013

On November 3, 2000, the United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California under 42 U.S.C. §14141, alleging that the City of Los Angeles, its Board of Police Commissioners and its Police Department (collectively the "LAPD") deprived individuals of their constitutional rights through the use of excessive force, false arrests and improper searches and seizures. The suit was an offshoot of a lengthy internal investigation of the LAPD's Rampart Divisi…
POLICING
U.S. v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

3:08-cv-00158 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2008

In March 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated an investigation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) pursuant to 42 USC § 14141. On October 5, 2005, the DOJ issued a technical assistance letter to VIPD, making recommendations regarding specific changes to the department's policies regarding use of force, vehicle pursuits, holding cells, misconduct investigations, discipline, supervisory oversight, and training. On December 23, 2008, the DOJ …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Custom Companies

1:02-cv-03768 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 28, 2002

Closed Date: 2009

In May of 2002, the EEOC's Chicago District Office filed suit in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, against Custom Companies Inc., a trucking company, and related corporate entities. The suit alleged sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of Title VII. The charging parties intervened as plaintiffs. In July of 2003, the case was consolidated with a separate action brought by the EEOC against Custom Companies (1:03-cv-02293). The defendants made multiple motions for summ…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Scientific Colors, Inc. d/b/a "Apollo Colors"

1:00-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2000

Closed Date: 2002

In January of 2000, the Chicago District Office of the EEOC brought suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, against Scientific Colors, Inc., a manufacturer of pigments operating outside of Chicago. The suit was brought under Title VII on behalf of African-American employees who allegedly were subjected to a racially hostile work environment when their employer failed to promptly remove and properly respond to racist graffiti and displays of hangman's nooses. A number …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Spinner v. City of New York

1:01-cv-02715 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 2, 2001

Closed Date: June 4, 2004

In 2001, private attorneys representing individual plaintiffs filed several civil rights lawsuits pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The cases challenged allegedly improper strip searches and unsanitary and inhumane conditions of confinement at the Brooklyn Central Booking facility. Plaintiffs alleged that police had a blanket policy of strip searching all individuals who entered the Brooklyn Central Booking facility, regardless of th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Osterback v. Moore

1:97-cv-02806 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 1997

Closed Date: March 25, 2008

Plaintiffs, prisoners in various Florida state prisons, brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) officials operating the prisons on October 28, 1997. In the allegations in the second amended complaint, their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case alleged that prisoners housed in "Close Management" (CM) status in these prisons suffered cruel and unusual punishment in violation of their Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiffs, seeki…