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PRISON CONDITIONS
Austin v. Wilkinson

4:01-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2001

On January 9, 2001, inmates at the Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP), represented by the ACLU, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio against officials of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Plaintiffs alleged violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, plaintiffs complained of inadequate medical and mental health services, improper classification and transfer procedures, and inadequate suicide pr…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Abdallah v. Coca-Cola Co.

1:98-cv-03679 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 1998

Closed Date: 2001

On December 12, 1998, an African-American employee of The Coca-Cola Company filed a lawsuit under both 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et. seq. against The Coca-Cola Company in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for both monetary damages and injunctive relief, claiming that the the defendant was systematically discriminating against African-American employ…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Foote v. Spiegel

2:94-cv-00754 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 1994

Closed Date: Feb. 16, 2001

A motorist brought this suit under § 1983 against Utah State Troopers, corrections officers, and the state of Utah on August 1, 1994 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The motorist alleged that the officers violated her Fourth Amendment rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when they strip searched after a traffic stop. The motorist sought damages for these alleged violations. She was represented by McCullough, Jones & Ivins and the American Civil Liberties Unio…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Pugh

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

Filed Date: June 28, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

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
Apsley v. Boeing Co.

6:05-cv-01368 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2005

Closed Date: 2015

On December 19, 2005, former employees of the Boeing Company filed this class action in the United States District Court of Kansas against Boeing, Spirit Aerosystems Inc., the Onex Corporation, and Midwestern Aircraft. The employees alleged violations of various laws during the layoff and rehire process that took place in connection with Boeing's sale of its commercial airplane manufacturing facilities to Onex. In 2005, Boeing sold its Wichita and Oklahoma facilities to Onex, which created Spir…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Moore v. Chertoff

1:00-cv-00953 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 3, 2000

On May 3, 2000, ten black current and former special agents of the United States Secret Service filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a (the Civil Rights Act of 1991) against the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit individually and on behalf of a putative…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Hipp v. Liberty Nat. Life Ins. Co.

8:95-cv-01332 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 1995

  [This summary is temporary while we research the case.] This is a class action lawsuit in which former insurance company employees sued their former employer, alleging age-related discrimination. It was removed from state court on August 10, 1995, and filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. 
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Ambat v. City and County of San Francisco

3:07-cv-03622 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 13, 2007

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2016

These consolidated cases involved challenges to a gender-based staffing policy of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. The Sheriff reorganized inmate housing in mid-2006 in San Francisco so that all female inmates were placed in County Jail #8 in female-only housing units. From October 2006 forward, the Sheriff implemented a policy that only female deputies be assigned to staff these particular units. The first of the consolidated cases, Ambat v. City and County of San Francisco, was filed i…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Liddell v. Board of Education for the City of St. Louis

4:72-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 1972

Background On February 18, 1972, five African-American parents and their minor children filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They sued the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis and a number of its officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, claiming that the defendants operated city schools in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the plai…