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PRISON CONDITIONS
Jones'el v. Berge

3:00-cv-00421 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2000

Closed Date: 2008

On September 25, 2000, prisoners confined at the Supermax Correctional Institution in Boscobel, Wisconsin, and the Waupun Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against those prisons. The plaintiffs, represented by court appointed counsel and the University of Wisconsin School of Law, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that their va…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Vivendi Universal Studios

2:03-cv-07023 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2003

Closed Date: June 25, 2008

In September 2003, the Los Angeles and New York District Offices and San Diego Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against the collective enterprises making up Universal Pictures (Vivendi Universal SA, Vivendi Universal Group LLP, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios LLLP, Vivendi Universal Entertainment LLLP, Universal City Studios LLLP, Universal Pictures Inc.) in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging discrimination on the basis of race in violation of Ti…
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)

PRISON CONDITIONS
Johnson v. Martin

2:00-cv-00075 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 28, 2000

On March 28, 2000, an incarcerated member of the Melanic Islamic Palace of the Rising Sun, a non-profit religious organization, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court Western District of Michigan under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 29 U.S.C. § 2000cc (Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA)) against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC). The plaintiff, in pro per, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, plaintiff alleged that the …
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Canupp v. Liberty Behavioral Health Corporation

2:04-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 7, 2004

Closed Date: 2009

On May 7, 2004, individuals in the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) filed a civil rights suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, challenging the conditions of their confinement at the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) in Arcadia, Florida. Plaintiffs were all involuntarily civilly confined at the FCCC pursuant to Sexually Violent Predator Act §§ 394.910, et seq. Fla. Stat. (2003). Plaintiffs alleged viola…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Reese v. Miami-Dade County

1:01-cv-03766 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2001

Closed Date: Nov. 19, 2009

On September 6, 2001 displaced public housing residents represented by Florida Legal Services Inc., the Florida Justice Institute, and the National Housing Law Project filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida alleging that a revitalization plan for their complexes in Liberty City, Miami, Florida was racially discriminatory. The plaintiffs' claimed violations of the Fair Housing Act (42 U. S. C. §§ 3601 et seq.), Title VI of Civil Rights Acts o…
POLICING
Calhoun v. Pennington

1:09-cv-03286 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 2009

On November 24, 2009, patrons of Atlanta Eagle, a gay bar in Atlanta, Georgia, filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Atlanta, the chief of police, and officers of the Atlanta Police Department in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private lawyer Dan Grossman, and public interest lawyers from Lambda Legal Defense and the Southern Center for Human Rights, asked the Court for damages and declaratory…
POLICING
Vodak v. City of Chicago

1:03-cv-02463 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 20, 2003

Closed Date: 2013

On March 20, 2003, thousands of people gathered in Chicago to protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Roughly 700 of these demonstrators were allegedly detained, arrested, jailed, or falsely charged with crimes. On April 10, 2003, represented by The People's Law Office and private counsel, these protestors filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the City and its Police Department. The complaint was brought under 42 U.S.C. §1983 f…
POLICING
United States v. Maricopa County

2:12-cv-00981 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 10, 2012

Closed Date: May 14, 2019

This lawsuit was the result of an investigation launched by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2009 into the alleged targeting and unconstitutional treatment of Latinos by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. (The DOJ's initial inquiry apparently started in 2008, but the formal investigation opened with notice to the Sheriff's Office in March 2009.) The Sheriff's Office declined to cooperate in the investigation, leading the DOJ to file a a related lawsuit in …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cunningham v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

1:12-cv-01570 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 18, 2012

On June 18, 2012, prisoners at an Administrative Maximum Facility prison in Florence (ADX), filed this class-action lawsuit in the District of Colorado against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and certain BOP officials who were responsible for the operation of ADX. Represented by private counsel and the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, the plaintiffs claimed that the defendants had violated BOP policy and the Eighth Amendment by failing to properly diagnose a…