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MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Dixon v. Weinberger

1:74-cv-00285 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 8, 1986

Closed Date: March 30, 2014

In 1974, patients confined at the Federal Mental Institution (FMI) in the District of Columbia filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed under the Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act (HMIA), 21 D.C. Code §501, against the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Mental Health Law Project, asked the court for a declaration of the following: 1) that they had a right to…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
In re Juvenile Justice Facilities

3:97-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 2, 1997

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2003

This case was part of the collection of § 1983 inmate cases that had been pending in the Louisiana federal courts, challenging the operation and conditions of confinement in the Louisiana prison system and in parish and city jails through Louisiana. See the cases categories PC-LA, JC-LA and JI-LA of this collection.Judge Frank J. Polozola of the U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana presided over many of the Louisiana prison and jail cases. In an effort to better manage those cases…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Harris Farms, Inc.

1:02-cv-06199 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2002

Closed Date: 2008

On September 30, 2002, the San Francisco District Office and San Jose Office of the EEOC filed suit against the integrated farming business Harris Farms Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On September 29, 2003, the farm worker subject to harassment joined the suit as an intervenor plaintiff. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff, asserted…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Maryland NAACP v. Baltimore City Police Department

1:06-cv-01863 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: June 14, 2006

Closed Date: 2015

This case, Maryland NAACP v. Baltimore City Police Department, 1:06-cv-01863-CCB (D. Md. 2006) was one of three cases filed about the same time alleging mistreatment of persons arrested and taken to Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center ("Central Booking" or "CBIC") for booking and processing. (The other cases were Jones v. Murphy, Case No. 1:05-cv-01287-CCB (D. Md. 2005) and Rodney v. Murphy, 24-C-05004405, filed in Maryland state court.) Central Booking was opened in 1995 as the central…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Chang v. U.S.

2:99-cv-10518 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 1999

Closed Date: Feb. 13, 2013

Plaintiffs were a group of ''Immigrant Investors'' who participated in the ''EB-5'' program, which granted lawful permanent resident (''LPR'') status in the United States to those who made qualifying investments that created jobs for United States workers under the Immigrant Investor Law (''IIL''), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1153(b)(5).On August 24, 1999, Plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) imprope…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Cavanaugh v. Sprint/United Management Co.

1:04-cv-03418 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 2004

Closed Date: 2006

On November 22, 2004, a female employee 0ver the age of 40 filed a class action lawsuit under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 621 (ADEA) against Sprint/United Management Company in United States District Court, Northern District of Atlanta. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, including reinstatement and restoration of pensions and other benefits, and monetary relief including front pay, back pay, and liquida…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Engers v. AT&T

2:98-cv-03660 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 1998

Closed Date: June 22, 2011

AT&T changed its pension plan in November 1997, which allegedly resulted in younger employees receiving more benefits than older employees previously had, while the pension benefits for older employees were reduced. On August 5, 1998, the plaintiff filed this class-action lawsuit in the District Court of New Jersey bringing 17 claims for relief alleging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), ERISA, and state law. The complaint sought declaratory and injunctive relief req…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Brown v. Bush

1:98-cv-00673 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 24, 1998

Closed Date: 2007

On May 24, 1998, a group of individuals confined to Florida's four Developmental State Institutions for Persons with Developmental Disabilities ("DSIs") filed suit against the state of Florida and relevant state officials alleging that defendants failed to take appropriate measures to habilitate the plaintiffs, and that the plaintiffs suffered grave harm as a result. They asserted claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. ("ADA") and its regulations; the Rehab…
POLICING
Barham v. Ramsey

1:02-cv-02283 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 2002

Closed Date: 2018

The initial plaintiffs in this case were a group of twenty-two individuals who were arrested in September 2002 at a mass political demonstration in Washington, D.C. On November 19, 2002, they filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under 28 U.S.C §§ 1331 and 1343 against a number of municipal and federal defendants, including the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Chief of Police Charles Ramsey of the Metropolitan Police Department, the District of Co…
CHILD WELFARE
Sam M. v. Chafee

1:07-cv-00241 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: June 28, 2007

On June 28, 2007, ten named minor children in the legal custody of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families ("DCYF") filed this putative class action lawsuit (by their Next Friends) in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Office of Health & Human Services, and Director of DCYF. The named plaintiffs were represented by the advocacy organization Children's Rights, then-Rhode Island Child Advocat…