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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Johnson v. Upchurch

4:86-cv-00195 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 6, 1986

On April 6, 1986, inmates at Catalina Mountain Juvenile Institution (now known as Catalina Mountain School) near Tucson, Arizona, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Education for the Handicapped Act against the former and acting superintendents of Catalina Mountain Juvenile Institution; the acting superintendent of Catalina Mountain; the director of the Arizona Department of Corrections; and the director of Juvenile Services for the Arizona Department of Corrections. The suit was f…
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
De Leon-Granados v. Eller And Sons Trees, Inc.

1:05-cv-01473 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 5, 2005

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2012

On June 5, 2005, attorneys with the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Virginia Justice Center for Farm and Immigrant Workers filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a group of over 1500 migrant workers in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against their former employer, Eller and Sons Trees, Inc. Plaintiffs, who were from Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, were admitted to the U.S. under the H-2B temporary farm worker program. The plaint…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Holloway v. Best Buy Co.

4:05-cv-05056 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 8, 2005

Closed Date: 2016

On December 8, 2005, six employees filed a class action complaint against their employer, Best Buy Co., Inc. under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and California Government Code § 12940 et seq. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleged gender and racial discrimination, and they sought injunctive and declaratory relief, punitive damages, back pay, and…
CHILD WELFARE
LaShawn A. v. Fenty

1:89-cv-01754 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 20, 1989

In 1989, Children's Rights and the ACLU filed a federal class action on behalf of children placed in foster care under the supervision of the District of Columbia's Department of Human Services (DHS), and abused and neglected children who are (or should be) known to DHS by virtue of abuse or neglect. The case asserted violations of Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, due process, the District of Columbia Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Act of 1977, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatm…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Carpenter v. Boeing Company

6:02-cv-01019 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Jan. 16, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

On January 16, 2002, several female employees of defendant in its Kansas operations filed a lawsuit under Title VII, the Equal Pay Act, § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, and state law against defendant Boeing Company in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, Wichita Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleged gender discrimination in Boeing's compensation and overtime policies. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that Boeing's company-wide practi…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Arc of Washington v. Quasim

3:99-cv-05577 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 1999

Closed Date: 2007

On November 9, 1999, developmentally disabled individuals and the Arc of Washington State filed a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Medicaid Act against various Washington state officials in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Plaintiffs represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that Defendants were not providing Medicaid services with reasonable promptness. On October 5, 2000, t…
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…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
In re Black Farmers' Discrimination Litigation ("Pigford II")

1:08-mc-00511 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2008

On April 14, 1999, a consent decree was approved in Pigford v. Glickman, involving a class of thousands of Black farmers who had sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over racially discriminatory farm loan denials. 185 F.R.D. 82 (D.D.C. 1999). In the settlement, two "claim tracks" were created: Track A, which had a lower standard of proof of discrimination (paying up to $50,000 for credit claims and $3,000 for non-credit claims), and Track B, which required a preponderance of the evidence (pa…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Gilman v. Brown

2:05-cv-00830 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 7, 2005

Closed Date: 2017

On April 7, 2005, a California state prisoner serving a life sentence with possibility of parole file a pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against members of the Board of Parole Hearings (formerly the Board of Prison Terms and Parole) and the governor of California, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants maintained a review practices violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth…