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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…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Chang v. U.S.

2:99-cv-10518 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 1999

Closed Date: Feb. 13, 2013

Plaintiffs were a group of ''Immigrant Investors'' who participated in the ''EB-5'' program, which granted lawful permanent resident (''LPR'') status in the United States to those who made qualifying investments that created jobs for United States workers under the Immigrant Investor Law (''IIL''), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1153(b)(5).On August 24, 1999, Plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) imprope…
CHILD WELFARE
Charlie and Nadine H. v. Corzine

2:99-cv-03678 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1999

Closed Date: April 25, 2023

On August 4, 1999, a group of children in the legal and/or physical custody of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and DYFS in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Represented in part by Children's Rights, Inc., the plaintiffs alleged that DYFS failed to protect them from abuse, failed to provide them with services such as medical care, and failed to provide DYFS caseworkers with adequate resources and…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Middleton v. Publix Super Markets

8:97-cv-00760 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: April 4, 1997

Closed Date: 2001

On April 4, 1997, Plaintiffs, African American employees and applicants for employment with Publix Super Markets, Inc. filed a class action complaint Publix Super Markets in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000(e), et seq.; Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S.C. § 1981; the Florida Human Rights Act of 1977, ("Florida HRA"); and the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992. The Pla…
CHILD WELFARE
Connor B. v. Patrick

1:10-cv-30073 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 15, 2010

Closed Date: 2014

On April 15, 2010, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on behalf of all children who are now or will be in the foster care custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families ("DCF") as a result of abuse or neglect. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that the Massachusetts foster care system is causing physical and …
POLICING
Floyd v. City of New York

1:08-cv-01034 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2008

This is one of four ongoing cases challenging the constitutionality of the New York Police Department's "Stop and Frisk" program. See Ligon v. City of New York; Daniels v. City of New York; Davis v. City of New York. On January 31, 2008, four African-American men who had been stopped and frisked in the City of New York brought this class § 1983 suit against the City in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rig…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nunez and United States v. City of New York

1:11-cv-05845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

On August 18, 2011, a class of incarcerated people filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment against the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC). The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and damages, claiming that DOC officers routinely inflicted wanton physical violence on prisoners and deliberately falsifi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Castillon v. Correction Corporation of America

1:12-cv-00559 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2012

Closed Date: 2018

On November 9, 2012, 8 inmates at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC) filed a lawsuit in the District of Idaho. The plaintiffs sued Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which operates the Idaho Correctional Center, under 42 U.S.C § 1983 for violations of their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the color of state law. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought compensatory damages and punitive damages. The plaintiffs also sought injunctive relief and an award of attor…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Cook County

1:10-cv-02946 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 13, 2010

Closed Date: June 26, 2018

On February 17, 2007, the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division (DOJ), opened an investigation of the Cook County Jail, under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In July 2007, the DOJ conducted on-site inspections of the jail, interviewing staff and inmates, and on August 3, 2007, the DOJ notified jail officials of potentially life-threatening deficiencies at the jail, including grossly unsanitary conditions and inadequate emergency key precautions, w…