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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…
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…
POLICING
Handschu v. Special Services Division

1:71-cv-02203 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 18, 1971

On May 18, 1971, residents of New York City filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued an intelligence division within the New York Police Department (NYPD), the Special Services Division (SSD), under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and private counsel, sought class certifi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Barnes v. District of Columbia

1:06-cv-00315 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2006

On February 23, 2006, four men incarcerated at the District of Columbia Jail filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs claimed that D.C. Jail officials violated their Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendment rights in detaining them beyond their release dates and violated their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights for conducting blanket strip searches. The Barnes case followed a nearly identical class action lawsuit Bynum v. Distric…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Whitaker v. Perdue

4:06-cv-00140 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 20, 2006

On June 20, 2006, six low-level sex offenders filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, against the state of Georgia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the ACLU of Georgia, challenged provisions of the state's new sex offender law that prevented sex offenders from living and working within one-thousand feet of school bus stops and churches. The plaintiffs had committed their crimes when they were young …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Thomas v. Baker

1:86-cv-02850 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 1986

Closed Date: June 20, 2001

On October 17, 1986 two African-American Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) filed suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000 et seq. against then Secretary of the Department of State, James Baker, in United States District Court in the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief and damages, alleging that the State Department discriminated against African-Americans who served as FSOs. Specifi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bacon v. Honda of America Manufacturing. Inc.

2:99-cv-00803 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 1999

Closed Date: 2002

On August 19, 1999, two employees filed a lawsuit against their employer, Honda of American Manufacturing Inc., in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., 42 U.S.C. § 1981, Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4112.99, and Ohio common law. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleged that the defendant engaged in a pattern and practice of discrimination, resulting in disparate impact and disparat…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
G.F. v. Contra Costa County

3:13-cv-03667 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2013

On August 8, 2013, detainees of the Costa County Juvenile Hall filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Contra Costa County, California. The plaintiffs, represented by counsel from the Disability Rights Advocates, alleged that defendants discriminated against disabled youth in the Contra Costa County Juvenile Hall. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that because Contra Costa County denied the plaintiffs special education and related services, …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Moeller v. Taco Bell

4:02-cv-05849 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2002

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

On December 17, 2002 plaintiffs, California residents with disabilities that required them to rely on wheelchairs or scooters for mobility, filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton) against Taco Bell Corporation. Plaintiffs, represented by the Impact Fund and private counsel, claimed the Defendant denied them, on the basis of disability, full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, ad…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Mills v. Billington

1:04-cv-02205 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2004

Closed Date: 2016

On December 20, 2004, minority employees of the Library of Congress (LOC) filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves, minority job applicants and all past, current, and future employees of the LOC in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant, the Librarian of Congress, engaged in discrimination against minority employees in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The plaintiffs alleged discrimi…