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PRISON CONDITIONS
Dee v. Brewer & Hazen v. Reagan

4:77-cv-80102 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: April 6, 1977

Closed Date: 2000

On April 6, 1977, in Dee v. Brewer, a group inmates at Iowa State Prison (ISP) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Iowa prison officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that mail policies at the prison were in violation of the Constitution. Previously, in a related case, on August 19, 1975, in Hazen v. Reagan, another group of…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Washington v. Reno

5:93-cv-00217 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: June 2, 1993

Closed Date: 2003

On June 2, 1993, federal prison inmates filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons' replacement of the collect call system with a direct dial system. Almost immediately thereafter, the case was consolidated with a similar claim, Robinson v. Hambrick, filed on July 9, 1993. The District Court (Judge Henry R. Wilhoit, Jr.) issued a preliminary injunction on October 13, 1993, blocking the install…
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. DIAL CORPORATION

1:99-cv-03356 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 20, 1999

Closed Date: 2005

The Chicago District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against the Dial Corporation, who makes soap and other hygiene products, in May 1999, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was based on sexual harassment and retaliation claims in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The docket indicates that the parties had numerous discovery motions, mostly protective orders and orders to compel, and two individuals intervened. The defendant file…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District

3:94-cv-02418 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1994

Closed Date: 2005

By their parents and next friends, and represented by private counsel, three named children of Chinese ancestry brought an action on 07/11/1994 against the San Francisco Unified School District (the School District) and other local and state defendants. Seeking class action status for their 42 U.S.C. § 1983-based case, the plaintiffs sought declaratory relief and an injunction forbidding the defendants from operating the public schools of San Francisco under a system of racial classification a…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Foote v. Spiegel

2:94-cv-00754 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 1994

Closed Date: Feb. 16, 2001

A motorist brought this suit under § 1983 against Utah State Troopers, corrections officers, and the state of Utah on August 1, 1994 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The motorist alleged that the officers violated her Fourth Amendment rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when they strip searched after a traffic stop. The motorist sought damages for these alleged violations. She was represented by McCullough, Jones & Ivins and the American Civil Liberties Unio…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. Nassau County Police Department

9:77-cv-01881 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 1977

Prior to 1974, the Nassau County Police Department (NCPD) had separate job classifications for male and female police officers, and fewer than 1% of uniformed positions were filled by policewomen. By 1974, the height, weight, age, physical agility, and educational requirements were the same for men and women. Consequently, the height, weight, and agility requirements had a disproportionate impact on women. Furthermore, a written exam administered to all applicants screened out over 90% of Black…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC.

2:10-cv-01283 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2010

Closed Date: May 8, 2017

On September 29, 2010, a class of male employees 50 years of age or older filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC (“PGW”) under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), 29 U.S.C. § 621. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for lost compensation in front pay and back pay, attorneys' fees and costs, declaratory and injunctive relief, lost pension benefits, and liquidated damages, c…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe 1 v. McAleenan

5:18-cv-02349 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 18, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2023

On April 18, 2018, a group of five unnamed plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sought to represent a class of Iranian refugees and their U.S.-based family members who applied for refugee resettlement through the Vienna, Austria-based Lautenberg-Specter program and were denied. The plaintiffs alleged that they had applied for refugee resettlement through the…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Doe v. Nebraska

8:09-cv-00456 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 2009

Closed Date: 2012

On December 16, 2009, several registered sex offenders residing in Nebraska brought suit against the State of Nebraska in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge the constitutionality of the Nebraska Sex Offender Registration Act. The state law banned individuals on the sex offender registry from accessing social media, criminalized their use of websites, and required consent to search. The plaintiffs claimed that this Act departed signi…