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JAIL CONDITIONS
Herrera v. Pierce County

3:95-cv-05025 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 1995

Closed Date: 2011

On January 19, 1995, inmates at the Pierce County Detention and Corrections Center ("PCDCC") in Tacoma Washington filed a class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington against the County, and various agencies responsible for the operation of the PCDCC. Plaintiffs were represented by Columbia Legal Services, Northwest Justice Project, and private attorneys.On October 31, 1995, the parties entered into a temporary stipulated order …
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. District of Columbia

1:88-cv-02897 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1988

On October 4, 1988, the District of Columbia announced that, due to overcrowding of its penal facilities, it would no longer accept newly sentenced prisoners into the District of Columbia Department of Corrections. On October 5, 1988, the United States filed a lawsuit under D.C.Code § 24-425 against the District of Columbia in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The US asked the district court for a temporary restraining order and for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleg…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jarrett v. Roth

3:01-cv-50027 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 2001

Closed Date: 2005

On January 1, 2001, an individual inmate filed two separate 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suits against prison officials in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiff's first suit, 3:01-CV-50027 (the 027 case), challenged prison officials' policy of allowing only five stamped envelopes per month to certain "C" grade psychiatric unit prisoners. The second suit, 3:01-CV-50354 (the 354 case), sought to enjoin the officials from censoring inmate mail absent a hearing. On April 27, 20…
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Virgin Islands

1:86-cv-00265 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 1986

On May 28, 1985, the U.S. Department of Justice [DOJ] notified the Governor of the Virgin Islands that it was commencing an investigation of alleged unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The DOJ issued a findings letter on January 23, 1986, advising that it had reasonable cause to believe that inmates confined to the Golden Grove Adul…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harper v. Bennett

1:04-cv-01416 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 19, 2004

Closed Date: 2015

On May 19, 2004, inmates at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued Fulton County and the Georgia Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the conditions of their confinement under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The class action suit, brought on behalf of inmates who were currently or would be incarcerated in the future at the Fulton County Jail facilities in Atla…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch

3:06-cv-02376 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 26, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On December 26, 2006 the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU), along with the ACLU's National Immigrants' Rights Project, filed a civil rights suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against the City of Farmers Branch, challenging the City's recently adopted Ordinance 2892. The Ordinance required landlords to verify the U.S. Citizenship or "eligible immigration status" of prospec…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barrietos v. City of Farmers Branch

3:07-cv-00061 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2007

Closed Date: 2007

This case is one of four lawsuits filed against the City of Farmers Branch, Texas, to challenge the City's anti-immigrant housing law, Ordinance 2892. See Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch, Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch and Ramos v. City of Farmers Branch. This case and two others filed in federal court, Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch and Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch , were assigned to District Court Judge Sam A. Lindsay, and on April 18, 2007…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. WELBORNE AUTOMOTIVE, INC. (FKA NISSAN OF HICKORY)

5:04-cv-00207 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2004

Closed Date: 2012

On December 30, 2004, the Charlotte and Norfolk offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against Welborne Automotive, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. The EEOC alleged that the defendants, a car dealership, had violated the rights of the complainant by firing her because she was female.On August 1, 2005, the complainant intervened as a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The case went to mediation in May of 2006, b…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. PAPILLON SALONS & COMPANY, INC.

2:02-cv-03149 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 29, 2002

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 2007

The New York District Office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. Distrcit Court for the Eastern District of New York, against Papillion Salons & Co., Inc., a salon located in Manhattan, and related businesses. The complaint, filed in May 2002, alleged age discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. Specifically, the complaint alleged that Defendant terminated the charging party from her employment as a receptionist because of her age, which was over…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. CENTURY CHEVROLET-GEO, INC.

2:96-cv-02845 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 1996

Closed Date: Jan. 14, 1999

The EEOC's Birmingham district office filed suit against Century Chevrolet-Geo, Inc., a national auto manufacturer, on October 31, 1996 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The EEOC's complaint is unavailable; however the EEOC's causes of action are listed in the summary judgment motion Century filed in November 1997. The EEOC alleged that Century violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act when it failed to promote one of its employees over a younger individ…