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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…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Conn. Traumatic Brain Injury Assoc. v. Hogan

2:90-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1990

Closed Date: 2002

On February 8, 1990, the Connecticut Traumatic Brain Injury Association filed a class action lawsuit against the Connecticut Departments of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and various state hospitals in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Plaintiffs were a class of persons with intellectual disabilities or traumatic brain injuries and who were or may be placed in Norwich or Fairfield Hills Hospitals. They were represented by Connecticut Legal Services, the Con…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Crowe v. Erickson

4:72-cv-04101 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1972

On November 21, 1972, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 suit in the District Court for the Southern Division of South Dakota against the warden, prison officials, and the Governor. Plaintiffs complained of punishment for violations of prison rules without due process of law, prison officials reading and censoring incoming and outgoing mail, poor medical treatment, inadequate religious and cultural protections, inadequate work release and employment programs, a…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Roberts v. County of Mahoning

4:03-cv-02329 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2003

Closed Date: May 17, 2010

On November 14, 2003 Ohio inmates filed this class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District Of Ohio, alleging that the conditions of confinement at the Mahoning County Justice Center ("Justice Center") and the Minimum Security Jail ("MSJ") violated their constitutional rights. The plaintiffs alleged that they were subjected severe overcrowding and corresponding deprivations. They sought equitable and declaratory relief.On March 5, 2004, …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LUBY'S INC

2:04-cv-01094 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 27, 2004

Closed Date: Oct. 19, 2007

In May 2004, the Phoenix District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Luby's Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. We do not have a copy of the complaint. However, according to the consent decree and a court order in the case, the complaint alleged that the defendant violated the American with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA") by discriminating against the charging party, an employee with an intellectual disability. Specifically, the defendant failed to reasona…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Elmaghraby v. Ashcroft

1:04-cv-01809 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 3, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2010

This case was one of two related actions filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York by plaintiffs who were investigated for suspected terrorist ties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and were eventually deported or left the U.S. The other case was styled Turkmen v. Ashcroft [IM-NY-7]. Both cases were assigned to District Court Judge John Gleeson.The plaintiffs were Muslim aliens from Egypt and Pakistan that were arrested and detained in the Metropolitan Detention Cent…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Pugh

1:02-cv-01239 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 28, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

In this prison conditions case brought in 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, a federal prisoner in the U.S. Bureau of Prison's (BOP) Florence, Colorado Administrative Maximum (ADX) Detention Unit, claimed violation of First Amendment rights in his pro se federal tort claim against BOP officials. The defendants administered 28 C.F.R. 540.20, a BOP prison regulation restricting inmates from publishing articles under their bylines. The plaintiff, represented by the Univ…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Thomas v. Baca

2:04-cv-08448 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2004

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2017

In October 2004, two former prisoners of the Los Angeles County Jail filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Corrections and Los Angeles County. The plaintiffs claimed that they had been forced to sleep on the floor of their cells during their detentions. They claimed that this violated their constitutional rights by subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Breen v. Mineta

1:05-cv-00654 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 31, 2005

On March 31, 2005, several current or former employees of the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") who were forty years old or older filed this age discrimination lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, against the FAA and the U.S. Department of Transportation ("DOT"). The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA") and alleged that the FAA and DOT discriminated against them by targeting their jobs for outs…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Foster-Bey v. Sampson

2:05-cv-71318 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 5, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

On April 5, 2005, Michigan inmates, represented by attorneys and students with the University of Michigan Clinical Law Program, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, alleging that changes to the Michigan parole law and policies made in 1992 ("life means life") precluded any meaningful review of their life sentences, thereby effectively converting them into mandatory life sentences in violation of the Ex Post Facto and the Due Process Clauses of t…