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JAIL CONDITIONS
Benjamin v. Horn

1:75-cv-03073 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 24, 1975

This case was consolidated for enforcement purposes with Ambrose v. Malcolm; Detainees of Queens House of Detention v. Malcolm; Detainees of Brooklyn House of Detention for Men v. Malcolm; Maldonado v. Ciuros; Forts v. Malcolm; and Rosenthal v. Malcolm. The summary below includes all of these in the consolidated form, but more information about each individual case is included in the "Related Cases" section. On June 24, 1975, a group of pretrial detainees at Rikers Island Detention Center for M…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. SERRANO'S MEXICAN RESTAURANTS LLC

2:02-cv-01608 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2002

Closed Date: April 5, 2007

EEOC's Phoenix, AZ office filed this Title VII lawsuit alleging discrimination based on religious belief against the Defendant Serrano's Mexican Restaurants, LLC. The lawsuit was filed at the United States District Court for the District of Arizona (Phoenix) on 08/20/2002. EEOC alleged on behalf of the former general manager of the restaurant that she was wrongfully discharged because of organizing a bible study group attended by three subordinate employees. The defendant had had a policy pr…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Rio Bravo International, Inc.

8:99-cv-01371 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 11, 1999

Closed Date: Nov. 14, 2005

In June 1999, the Tampa Area Office and Miami District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Rio Bravo International, Inc., Innovative Restaurant Concepts, Inc., and Applebee's International (doing business as Rio Bravo Cantina) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendants maintained a hostile work envir…
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
Doe v. Calumet City, Illinois

1:87-cv-03594 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 17, 1987

Closed Date: 1993

On April 17, 1987, a female arrestee filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, challenging the constitutionality of the strip-search policy of Calumet City, Illinois. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged that the Calumet City Police Department policy of strip-searching women who had been arrested for non-felony offenses, without any particularized belief that the arrestee possessed either a weapon or contraband violated the Fourth Amendment o…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
U.S. v. Oklahoma

4:06-cv-00673 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 2011

On December 15, 2006, the United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the state of Oklahoma and its officials and subgroups responsible for operation of the L.E. Rader Center ("Rader") juvenile detention facility. The complaint, as amended on May 4, 2007, alleged that the defendants (1) denied Rader's residents their rights to protection from harm from staff, from other residents, and from imp…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Hartman v. Albright

1:77-cv-02019 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 25, 1977

Closed Date: 2000

On November 25, 1977, Carolee Brady Hartman filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16 against the United States International Communication Agency (the "Agency"), formerly known as the United States Information Agency, in the United States District Court, District of Columbia. Hartman, represented by both private and public counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the Agency's hiring, promotion, and salary practices constituted patterns or practices of discrim…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Reynolds v. Giuliani

1:98-cv-08877 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1998

Closed Date: July 22, 2011

New York City implemented an overhaul to its welfare system in order to meet federal and state welfare requirements, which were revised in the mid-1990s. Under the city’s program, “income support centers” (locations where public assistance benefits were applied for and distributed, sometimes during the initial visit by an applicant) were to be converted to “job centers.” These job centers put greater emphasis on making sure those receiving public assistance obtained employment from the private …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Puffer v. Allstate Insurance Company

1:04-cv-05764 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 7, 2011

In January 2001, a female manager filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that Allstate Insurance Company intentionally created and maintained an unequal workforce that injured its female employees. Plaintiff further alleged she was sexually harassed by a supervisor and then passed over for promotion as retaliation for rejecting her supervisor's advances. Plaintiff alleged that Allstate failed to conduct an adequate investigation into those matters. On Septem…