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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Ricci v. Okin

1:72-cv-00469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 14, 1972

Closed Date: 2013

On February 7, 1972 a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of mentally disabled clients of Belchertown State School in Massachusetts against various Commonwealth officials responsible for the operation of the school in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, filing under the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396(a), asserted that conditions at the school violated residents' statutory and constitutional rights, including the right to minimally adeq…
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
EEOC v. Vivendi Universal Studios

2:03-cv-07023 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2003

Closed Date: June 25, 2008

In September 2003, the Los Angeles and New York District Offices and San Diego Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against the collective enterprises making up Universal Pictures (Vivendi Universal SA, Vivendi Universal Group LLP, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios LLLP, Vivendi Universal Entertainment LLLP, Universal City Studios LLLP, Universal Pictures Inc.) in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging discrimination on the basis of race in violation of Ti…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION

2:02-cv-00984 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2002

Closed Date: 2004

The Philadelphia office of the EEOC brought this suit against FedEx Express Corporation (a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation), a major national shipping company, in February 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, for violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complaint alleged that the female complainant had been sexually harassed by male co-workers and subjected to a hostile work environment, that no action was taken to remedy the situation w…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Disability Law Center v. Massachusetts Department of Correction

1:07-cv-10463 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 8, 2007

Closed Date: 2017

On March 8, 2007, the Disability Law Center ("DLC") filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §12131, and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §794 against the Massachusetts Department of Correction ("DOC"). The DLC is the agency designated by the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act, 42 U.S.C. §§10801 et seq. to pursue legal, administrative, and oth…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Rose v. Saginaw County

2:01-cv-10337 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2001

On October 9, 2001, a group of pre-trial detainees represented by private counsel filed a class action civil rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, challenging the naked confinement policy of the Saginaw County Jail. Plaintiffs alleged that, under the policy, the County Sheriff and deputies placed detainees they found to be uncooperative or disruptive in administrative segregation cells, after being stripped naked. Plainti…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rosalino Perez-Benites v. Candy Brand LLC

1:07-cv-01048 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 7, 2007

Closed Date: 2013

On June 7, 2007, attorneys with the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class action lawsuit in the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas on behalf of about 2,700 Mexican migrant workers who entered the United States with H-2A visas and harvested and packed tomatoes and performed other agricultural work in Bradley County, Ark., from 2002 to 2007. Plaintiffs alleged that the employers violated the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. by failing to pay …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Daniels v. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

1:98-cv-01186 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 1998

Closed Date: March 8, 2007

On February 25, 1998 eight African Americans filed a lawsuit alleging discrimination on the basis of race pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1981 against their current or former employer, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, in United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. On June 18, 1998, the complaint was amended to add plaintiffs and a Title VII race discrimination claim. Their specific complaint was that the defendant discriminated against African Americans when making promotion…
PRISON CONDITIONS
El-Tabech v. Houston

4:04-cv-03231 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: June 28, 2004

Closed Date: 2012

On June 28, 2004, a prisoner at the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP) and transferred to the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution (TSCI) filed this lawsuit after being severely injured by prison guards. Filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, the plaintiff sued the wardens of both maximum security prisons, the director of all Nebraska prisons, and multiple agents of the state prison system, including several medical personnel, under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and the Religious L…