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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Conner v. Branstad

4:86-cv-90871 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Dec. 8, 1986

Closed Date: 2003

On December 8, 1986, a resident of Glenwood or Woodward State Hospital-Schools filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa on behalf of himself and other similarly situated persons. Plaintiffs were represented by the Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services and the University of Iowa College of Law Clinical Program, the Legal Center for Special Education, and private attorneys. Defendants were the State of Iowa, the Division of M…
PRISON CONDITIONS
LaMarca v. Turner

9:82-cv-08196 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 14, 1982

Closed Date: 2000

On May 14, 1982, an inmate at the Glades Correctional Institution in Florida filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the prison in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Nine other inmates of the prison were eventually added onto the lawsuit, which became a class action, and they were later represented by Florida Rural Legal Services. The inmates asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Milburn v. Coughlin

1:79-cv-05077 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 1979

On September 25, 1979, this class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs filed under 42 U.S.C. 1983 on behalf of all people who were or would be incarcerated at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, New York, against New York State, its Department of Correctional Services, Green Haven Correctional Facility, and their medical personnel. Represented by the Prisoners' Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society of New York, …
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Detroit, Michigan

2:03-cv-72258 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 12, 2003

Closed Date: May 31, 2016

On June 12, 2003, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Detroit. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 14141, the DOJ alleged a pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct by officers of the Detroit Police Department (DPD), including the excessive use of force, false arrest, improper warrantless searches and failure to protect detainees. Contemporaneously with the filing o…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Autozone

2:00-cv-02923 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2000

Closed Date: March 24, 2009

The Memphis and Washington D.C. offices of the EEOC brought suit against Autozone, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee in September 2000. While we do not have a copy of the complaint, it seems the complaint alleged that Autozone, Inc. engaged in a pattern or practice of race and gender discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. More specifically, the defendant allegedly discriminated against females and Blacks in hiring and prom…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Powell v. Barrett

1:04-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 21, 2004

Closed Date: 2013

On April 21, 2004, eleven former male detainees of the Fulton County Jail, represented by private attorneys, brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs challenged as unconstitutional the Jail's practices of (a) conducting "blanket strip searches" of inmates entering and/or returning to the Jail without any individualized determination that such searches would reveal contraband; and (b) detaining inmates past…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Morales v. Hickman

3:06-cv-00219 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2006

On January 11, 2006, several inmates at the state prison at San Quentin filed lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, all of whom were scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, alleged that their constitutional rights were threatened, arguing that lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment that violated the Eighth Amendment. They further argued that pancuronium…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Flynn v. Doyle

2:06-cv-00537 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 1, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2016

On May 1, 2006, attorneys for the National Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation and the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation Inc. filed a civil rights class action in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of female inmates incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional Institution (“TCI”) in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The plaintiffs alleged that their conditions of confinement violated their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United St…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Latuga v. Hooters Inc.

1:93-cv-07709 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 1993

Closed Date: 1997

On December 23, 1993, a male applicant to the Hooters of Orland Park, IL filed a lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et. seq., against Hooters Inc. and Hooters or Orland Park in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, alleged that he had been discriminated against on account of his gender when he was not hired for a waiter possession because Hooters has a policy such that only…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…