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PRISON CONDITIONS
Goff v. Harper

4:90-cv-30365 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: July 6, 1990

Closed Date: 2006

On July 6, 1990, an inmate at Iowa State Prison filed a lawsuit against prison officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa alleging Eighth and Eleventh Amendment violations. Plaintiff specifically alleged the defendants' disciplinary procedures and policies violated inmates' constitutional rights.On December 14, 1993, plaintiff filed a motion for preliminary injunction requesting that certain prison officials not be involved in any of …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duffy v. Riveland

2:92-cv-01596 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 1992

Closed Date: 2002

In 1992 and 1993, a deaf inmate incarcerated at the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe, Washington, filed two pro se suits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District Of Washington contending that prison officials failed to provide him with a qualified interpreter at prison proceedings in violation of his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 ("ADA"); the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794 ("RA"); 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (" § 1983"); and Revis…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. VON MAUR

4:06-cv-00182 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: April 19, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2010

In April 2006 the Milwaukee office of the EEOC brought this suit in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa, alleging that the defendant, Von Maur, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by failing to hire black applicants because of their race. In July 2006, the case was consolidated for the purpose of discovery with a separate private action brought against Von Maur in the Southern District of Iowa, Ward v. Von Maur.On September 22, 2008 the two cases were consolidated for trial, h…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Williams v. County of Los Angeles

2:97-cv-03826 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 22, 1997

Closed Date: 2003

On May 22, 1997, ten individuals who were allegedly over-detained in the Los Angeles County jail brought a class action lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the County, the Sheriff and various individual supervisors charged with jail management. As the lawsuit alleged both federal and state law violations, the defendants removed the case to the federal court - the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Plaintiffs alleged that pursuant to jail policy, …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Ward v. Von Maur Inc

3:04-cv-00159 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2004

Closed Date: 2010

On December 19, 2004, several African Americans who applied for and were denied jobs at Von Maur brought suit against Von Maur in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The plaintiffs claimed that the Defendant violated Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §1981, and the Iowa Civil Rights Act. The plaintiffs also made tort violations, claiming intentional infliction of emotional distress. The plaintiffs alleged racial discrimination in Von Maur’s hiring practices, including but not…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Parish v. Sheriff of Cook County

1:07-cv-04369 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2007

On August 3, 2007, a person held in Cook County Jail (CCJ) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988, and 28 U.S.C. § 1343 and 2201 against Cook County. The plaintiff, represented by civil rights attorneys, asked the court for compensatory damages, claiming that the jail's policies and procedures that denied prescribed medications to prisoners violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiffs specifically alleged that the d…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Rosie D. v. Romney

3:01-cv-30199 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2001

On October 31, 2001, the Center for Public Representation, the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee, and a private law firm filed a class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1396, against the Governor of Massachusetts and other state officials, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Rosie D. and eight other Medicaid-eligible children, aged 6 to 15, who were hospitalized or at risk of hospitalization due to a lack of home-based services. The class…
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…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Doe v. Reed

3:09-cv-05456 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 28, 2009

Closed Date: 2012

On July 28, 2009, plaintiffs, two anonymous individuals who signed a voting petition and the group that organized the petition drive, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against the State of Washington under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, challenged the constitutionality of the state's Public Records Act as applied to the referendum process, claiming violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. They sought declara…