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JAIL CONDITIONS
Cottone v. Jenne

0:00-cv-07545 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2000

Closed Date: July 20, 2006

Plaintiff, a personal representative for his son, sued numerous defendants associated with the Broward County Detention Center in Florida after his son, a pretrial detainee, died at the hands of a mentally ill co-inmate. The detention center was subject to a consent decree from Carruthers v. Cochran (JC-FL-008) that required the jail to institute a system of classification, separation, and monitoring of inmates. In 2002, the district court for the Southern District of Florida (Judge William J…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
A.J. v. Myers

4:89-cv-01077 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1989

On November 15, 1989, a juvenile detainee at the Jackson County, Missouri, Juvenile Justice Center filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1988 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri against various administrators and an officer of the juvenile detention center. The class consisted of the named juvenile detainee and others similarly-situated. The plaintiff, who was represented by private counsel and the National Center for Youth Law, sought injunctive rel…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Richard S. v. Dept. of Developmental Services of California

8:97-cv-00219 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 20, 1997

Closed Date: 2005

On March 20, 1997, Richard S. filed a class-action lawsuit and an application for a temporary restraining order in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against the Department of Developmental Services for the State of California and Fairview Developmental Center. Richard S. was a resident of Fairview and was represented by a private attorney. William Cable, M.D. served as guardian ad litem for the class members, developmentally disabled clients without conserv…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. California

3:90-cv-02641 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 1990

Closed Date: 1995

On January 23, 1985, four patients at the Napa State Hospital (NSH) in Napa Valley, California filed a lawsuit against the hospital and the Department of Mental Health for the State of California (DMH) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by conditions at the hospital. This lawsuit drew the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice, who initiated an investigation into the conditions at the hospital on …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hallett v. Payne

3:93-cv-05496 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 1993

Closed Date: 2004

On August 31, 1993, inmates at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the facility's health care manager and superintendent alleging that healthcare in the prison violated the Eighth Amendment. Plaintiffs were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, Columbia Legal Services, the Public Interest Law Group, and the ACLU's Natio…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Jaimes v. Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority

3:74-cv-00068 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 1974

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is a class action lawsuit brought by low-income residents of the metropolitan area of Toledo, Ohio against the Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority. The plaintiffs alleged that Toledo engaged in racially discriminatory conduct in the provision and location of low-income housing and sought to enjoin Toledo from engaging in such discriminatory behavior.
POLICING
U.S. v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

3:08-cv-00158 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2008

In March 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated an investigation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) pursuant to 42 USC § 14141. On October 5, 2005, the DOJ issued a technical assistance letter to VIPD, making recommendations regarding specific changes to the department's policies regarding use of force, vehicle pursuits, holding cells, misconduct investigations, discipline, supervisory oversight, and training. On December 23, 2008, the DOJ …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. ERNST & YOUNG, LLP

2:03-cv-04277 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

The Philadelphia office of the EEOC brought this suit against Ernst & Young LLP, an accounting firm, in September 2003, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The complainant alleged that the defendant engaged in hostile work environment and quid pro quo sexual harassment (under Title VII and NJ state law), retaliation, defamation, and invasion of her privacy. Specifically, complainant alleges that her supervisor, a lesbian, repeatedly retaliated against her because she de…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. BENCHMARK RESIDENTIAL SERVICES, INC.

1:03-cv-10172 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 4, 2003

Closed Date: July 19, 2004

In June 2003, the Detroit Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Benchmark Residential Services, Incorporated in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore the exact allegations involved are unknown. However, the intervenor complainant's complaint alleges the defendant subjected her to sexual harassment based on her sex, female, and that she was terminated from her position after she refused to have sex with her super…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. HOLLYWOOD ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION

4:04-cv-00478 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 2004

Closed Date: March 10, 2008

This suit was filed by the EEOC's Seattle office in September 2004 against Hollywood Entertainment Corporation, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The complaint alleged that the charging party had been refused a promotion and constructively discharged on the basis of her disability, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The charging party attempted to intervene in March 2005 and at the same time filed a motion to consolidate this case with her private lawsuit…