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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

Case Ongoing

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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Sourovelis v. City of Philadelphia

2:14-cv-04687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2014

Case Ongoing

On Aug. 11, 2014, four individuals filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, and the Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged violations of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, 42 U.S.C. § 1988, and the Declaratory Judgment Act. The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on Nov. 17, 2014.T…
CHILD WELFARE
Marisol A. v. Giuliani

1:95-cv-10533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1995

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2018

This federal class action was brought by children in the custody of the New York City Child Welfare Administration ("CWA"), and children who, while not in the custody of CWA, are or will be at risk of abuse or neglect and whose status is known or should be known to CWA. It was filed on December 13, 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights Inc., Lawyers for Children, and private counsel, sought class certification, …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Chen-Oster v. Goldman, Sachs

1:10-cv-06950 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2010

Case Ongoing

On September 16, 2010, three women who were previously employed at Goldman Sachs filed a lawsuit against the company in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that Goldman Sachs engaged in a pattern of gender discrimination in violation of state law and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. Specifically, they alleged that the company discriminated against them through its evaluation, c…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Hughes v. Sheriff Grady Judd

8:12-cv-00568 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: March 15, 2012

Closed Date: 2015

On March 15, 2012, a group of juvenile prisoners in Central County Jail in Polk County filed a lawsuit in the Middle District of Florida under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Though plaintiffs amended their complaint twice to include different defendants, the lawsuit proceeded against the Sheriff of Polk County and Corizon Health, Inc., the health care provider retained by the Sheriff to provide medical services for the prisoners. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked the cour…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Colindres v. Quietflex Manufacturing

4:01-cv-04319 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2001

On October 10, 2001, a group of Latino workers filed a lawsuit under of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq., and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. against Quietflex Manufacturing Co., in the United States District Court of the Western District of Texas, though it was subsequently transferred to the Southern District. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and eventually the EEOC, asked the Court for injunctive and declaratory relief, …
POLICING
Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd

1:05-cv-00093 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: March 15, 2005

Closed Date: 2015

The plaintiff in this action brought suit on 03/15/2005 against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and several other federal officials in their individual and official capacities, claiming that he was unlawfully detained and his freedom was otherwise infringed by the federal government. On March 16, 2003, the plaintiff, Al-Kidd, was arrested and detained as a material witness in a terrorism case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The underlying case was against another pe…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Pugh

1:02-cv-01239 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 28, 2002

Case Ongoing

In this prison conditions case brought in 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, a federal prisoner in the U.S. Bureau of Prison's (BOP) Florence, Colorado Administrative Maximum (ADX) Detention Unit, claimed violation of First Amendment rights in his pro se federal tort claim against BOP officials. The defendants administered 28 C.F.R. 540.20, a BOP prison regulation restricting inmates from publishing articles under their bylines. The plaintiff, represented by the Univ…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE

3:97-cv-00961 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 20, 1997

In March 1997, a lawsuit was brought by the Cleveland and San Francisco District Offices of the EEOC against United Parcel Service under the Americans with Disabilities Act to oppose the defendant's policy of categorically excluding persons with little or no vision in one of their eyes from positions driving smaller vehicles. Plaintiffs intervened in the lawsuit in February 1998 and December 1999. In August 1999, the case was reassigned to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of C…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
US v. The State of Georgia and The Coweta County School District

1:69-cv-12972 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: 1969

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