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JAIL CONDITIONS
Monaco v. Stone

1:98-cv-03386 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 5, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2016

Background On May 5, 1998, inmates in the Suffolk County Jail in New York filed a putative class action complaint on behalf of all individuals with mental illnesses facing civil commitment in jails and state-run hospitals. The suit also contained some individual claims from an individual plaintiff who was confined in Suffolk County jail and claims from the Mental Disability Law Clinic of Touro Center. The named defendants were various state officials in New York, the New York State Office of M…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jensen v. Gunter

4:87-cv-00607 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 1987

Closed Date: 2007

On 12/01/1987, inmates at the Nebraska State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 class action suit, pro se, in the District of Nebraska against officials of the Nebraska Department of Corrections. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants' practice of double celling constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment and that the penitentiary's policy relating to inmate liability for contraband violated the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause. Prior to an evidentiary hearin…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Austin v. Wilkinson

4:01-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2001

On January 9, 2001, inmates at the Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP), represented by the ACLU, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio against officials of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Plaintiffs alleged violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, plaintiffs complained of inadequate medical and mental health services, improper classification and transfer procedures, and inadequate suicide pr…
POLICING
Maryland State Conference of NAACP Branches v. Department of Maryland State Police

1:98-cv-01098 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 10, 1998

Closed Date: 2008

On April 10, 1998, the Maryland State Conference of NAACP Branches ("NAACP") and eighteen individuals filed this §1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the Maryland State Police (MSP) and twenty-four of its officers alleging racial profiling of minority motorists on Interstate 95 in Maryland. plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, damages, and attorneys' fees. In June 1998, an amended complaint was filed and the case wa…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. AutoZone, INC.

2:06-cv-00926 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 30, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

On March 30, 2006, the Phoenix District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiff sued the automobile repairer AutoZone, Inc. under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The plaintiff, representing a female employee of AutoZone Inc., asked the court for monetary relief for the complainant and injunctive relief enjoining the defendant from future discrimination on the basis of sex. Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that her…
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…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC) or the Erie County Correctional Facili…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Thomas v. Pemco Aeroplex, Inc.

2:99-cv-03280 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 1999

Closed Date: 2002

On December 9, 1999, a group of thirty-six African American employees filed a lawsuit, under 42 U.S.C. §1981, 42 U.S.C. §1981A, Title VII of U.S.C. §2000e, and 42 U.S.C. §1988, against Pemco Aeroplex, Inc. seeking monetary and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, claimed that they were victims of racial discrimination which created a hostile working environment. Debate over class certification ensued from 1999 to 2000. Ultimately, hearings on class certification…