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PRISON CONDITIONS
Washington v. Reno

5:93-cv-00217 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: June 2, 1993

Closed Date: 2003

On June 2, 1993, federal prison inmates filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons' replacement of the collect call system with a direct dial system. Almost immediately thereafter, the case was consolidated with a similar claim, Robinson v. Hambrick, filed on July 9, 1993. The District Court (Judge Henry R. Wilhoit, Jr.) issued a preliminary injunction on October 13, 1993, blocking the install…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Busey v. Corrections Corp

4:97-cv-01995 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 31, 1997

Closed Date: 1999

On 07/31/1997, inmates at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NOCC), represented by, among others, D.C. Prisoners' Legal Services Project, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the Northern District of Ohio against The Corrections Corporation of America and the Government of the District of Columbia. NOCC is Ohio's only private prison and was used to house inmates from Washington, D.C. In 1997, twenty inmates were stabbed and two were murdered. Plaintiffs alleged injuries due to exce…
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…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. University of Phoenix, Inc.

2:06-cv-02303 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

On September 25, 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), on behalf of a class of non-Latter Day Saints employees, filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Arizona, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, against the University of Phoenix, Inc. The EEOC sought injunctive relief, compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorneys' fees, and other forms of affirmative relief claiming that the defendants engaged in …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Osterback v. Moore

1:97-cv-02806 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 1997

Closed Date: March 25, 2008

Plaintiffs, prisoners in various Florida state prisons, brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) officials operating the prisons on October 28, 1997. In the allegations in the second amended complaint, their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case alleged that prisoners housed in "Close Management" (CM) status in these prisons suffered cruel and unusual punishment in violation of their Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiffs, seeki…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dare v. Knox County

2:02-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2002

On December 17, 2002, a pre-trial detainee filed a class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, challenging the Knox County Sheriff's policies, practices, and customs concerning the use of strip searches and visual body cavity searches in Knox County Jail. Plaintiff alleged that officers subjected detainees in their custody to strip and visual body cavity searches regardless of the crime charged and without having reasona…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aguilar v. ICE

1:07-cv-08224 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2007

On September 20, 2007 several Latino families and individuals, represented by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and private counsel, filed a class action suit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging raids conducted as part of a program called "Operation Return to Sender." Plaintiffs alleged that federal agents unlawfully raided the home…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rosiles-Perez v. Superior Forestry Service, Inc.

1:06-cv-00006 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

On January 25, 2006, a group of migrant forestry workers admitted to the U.S. under the H-2B foreign worker program filed suit against their employer, Superior Forestry Service, Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et. seq., and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act ("AWPA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801 et seq. Plaintiffs alleged that Superior and its officers failed to pay plain…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Breen v. Mineta

1:05-cv-00654 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 31, 2005

On March 31, 2005, several current or former employees of the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") who were forty years old or older filed this age discrimination lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, against the FAA and the U.S. Department of Transportation ("DOT"). The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA") and alleged that the FAA and DOT discriminated against them by targeting their jobs for outs…