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JAIL CONDITIONS
Mangan v. Christian County

6:99-cv-03373 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 1999

On October 6, 1999, a pretrial detainee of the Christian County Jail in Ozark, Missouri, represented by the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri and private counsel, brought a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. In the action he claimed violations of due process through lack of access to courts, lack of protection from cruel and unusual punishment, and inadequate conditions of the jail and sought declaratory and i…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Tennessee

2:92-cv-02062 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 1992

Closed Date: 2015

In December of 1990, the United States Department of Justice, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et al, investigated the Arlington Developmental Center (ADC) in Tennessee. The investigation revealed that conditions in the facility seriously threatened the health and safety of its developmentally delayed residents. The Department of Justice found that residents were subject to abuse and neglect, inadequate medical care, an unsafe physical en…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Daniels v. Zant

5:79-cv-00110 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 14, 1979

Closed Date: Aug. 11, 2007

On May 14 1979, Georgia death row inmates brought a civil rights suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, challenging their conditions of confinement at H-House in the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia. An amended complaint was filed on July 20, 1979 seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on behalf of the inmate class.The case was certified as a class action on October 2, 1979. The class was defined as al…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bryant v. Coughlin

1:94-cv-02940 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 22, 1994

Julius Bryant filed a pro-se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York Department of Corrections on April 22, 1994, seeking damages for deliberate indifference to his medical needs for his disabling back condition while he was an inmate at Green Haven Correctional Facility ("Green Haven"). Following a jury trial, the action was settled on February 20, 1998, by an agreement which called for plaintiff's admission to the Unit for the Physically …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Anderson v. Coughlin

9:87-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 1987

Closed Date: 2005

On December 17, 1987, prisoners at the Green Haven and Auburn State Correctional Facilities in New York filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New York Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. The prisoners, represented by Prisoners' Legal Services of New York and the Prisoners' Rights Project Legal Aid Society, alleged that their civil rights had been violated by the disciplinary procedures used for mentally ill prisoners.On Febru…
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. City of Columbus, Ohio

2:99-cv-01097 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1999

Closed Date: 2002

In 1998, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) conducted an investigation of the Columbus Division of Police (CDP). As a result of the investigation, the DOJ determined that CDP officers were engaged in a pattern or practice of using excessive force, making false arrests and lodging false charges, and conducting improper searches and seizures in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. On October 21, 1999, the DOJ filed a complaint against the City of Columbus, …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Lozano v. City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania

3:06-cv-01586 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2016

In this lawsuit, filed on August 15, 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, two property owners challenged the Hazleton, Pennsylvania ordinance penalizing those who rent to or hire undocumented immigrants. This was the first city ordinance of its kind, and the lawsuit received a great deal of press. The ordinance, titled "Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance" (Immigration Ordinance), immediately served as a model for several dozen other cities' similar enac…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Key Energy Services, Inc.

2:03-cv-00331 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2003

Closed Date: June 21, 2004

In September 2003, the EEOC district office of San Antonio, Texas brought this suit against Key Energy Services, Inc., the parent company of Brooks Well Servicing, Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The complaint alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in that a female employee was sexually harassed by a male manager and male coworkers when they made obscene comments, sexual innuendos, and requested to have sex with her. The charging …
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…