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20 cases, 21 documents
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Achari v. Signal International, LLC

2:13-cv-06218 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: March 21, 2013

Closed Date: May 26, 2017

This is the third case filed in the Signal International cases. On May 21, 2013, 33 Indian guestworkers filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, for harm suffered as a result of an allegedly fraudulent and coercive employment recruitment scheme. The case was filed after District Judge Jay Zainey denied class certification on Jan. 3, 2012 in the related case David v. Signal International. Plaintiffs were represented by private law firms. Plaintiffs …
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Albuquerque

1:14-cv-01025 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 12, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the city of Albuquerque in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. The DOJ brought this action under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, alleging that officers of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) were engaging in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and § 14141. Specifically…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Van Orden v. Schafer

4:09-cv-00971 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 22, 2009

Closed Date: 2017

On June 22, 2009, a group of civilly committed residents of the Missouri Department of Mental Health's ("DMH") Sex Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment Services ("SORTS") facilities filed this class action lawsuit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs sued the DMH and the Missouri Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.Each of the plaintiffs had previously been found guilty of a sexually violent crime and have also been declared a sexu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Heit v. VanOchten

1:96-cv-00800 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1996

On October 4, 1996, prisoners of the state of Michigan filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Michigan Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by unconstitutional state administrative prisoner disciplinary hearing practice…
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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Darensberg v. Metropolitan Transportation Commission

3:05-cv-01597 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 19, 2005

Closed Date: 2009

On April 19, 2005, a class of members of racial minority groups who ride buses operated by the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District ("AC Transit"), a labor union, and a community-based organization filed a federal class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Metropolitan Transportation Commission ("MTC") in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The plaintiffs alleged that MTC has historically engaged, and continues to engage in a po…
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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Independent Living Center of Southern California v. Maxwell-Jolly

2:08-cv-03315 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 22, 2008

Case Ongoing

In 2008 and 2009, the California Legislature passed three statutes modifying the State's Medicaid plan, reducing payments made to health providers. Under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396 et seq. (The Medicaid Act), such modifications must be approved by the federal Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) prior to being put in place. In September and December 2008, California submitted amendment proposals to CMS that incorp…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Estate of Rice ex rel. Garber v. City and County of Denver

1:07-cv-01571 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: July 25, 2007

Closed Date: 2008

On July 25, 2007, the parents of a young woman arrested for driving while under the influence of alcohol filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the County and City of Denver against the City and County of Denver, Colorado, Denver Department of Health and Hospitals. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel asked the court for declaratory relief, economic losses. compensatory and consequential damages, and punitive damages claiming under Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the defendants failed …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Williams v. Boeing Co.

2:98-cv-00761 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: June 4, 1998

Closed Date: Feb. 27, 2008

On June 4, 1998 a group of African Americans filed suit against Boeing Co. and several subsidiaries, their employers, alleging racial discrimination in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Specifically, they alleged that the defendants had engaged in a pattern or practice of behavior that included policies that had a disparate impact on African-American employees and disparately treated African American employees. They also …