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JAIL CONDITIONS
Harrington v. Devito

1:74-cv-03290 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 1974

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2011

Pretrial detainees, incarcerated in Cook County, Illinois, were in need of mental health care; they brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois under 42 U.S.C. §1983 alleging that state and county officials failed to provide it. After several years of negotiations under court supervision, the parties settled the case by consent order (the "Agreed Order") in 1978. Among other things, the Agreed Order ordered the Defendants to follow certain procedures respe…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
People First of Tenn. v. Clover Bottom Devel. Center

3:95-cv-01227 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 1995

Closed Date: 2017

On December 22, 1995, People First of Tennessee filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against the State of Tennessee on behalf of residents of the Clover Bottom Developmental Center, Greene Valley Developmental Center, and Winston Developmental Center. The plaintiff sued the Clover Bottom Development Center and the Tennessee Department of Health under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Laube v. Haley

2:02-cv-00957 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2002

Closed Date: 2010

On August 19, 2002, female prisoners in Alabama filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The prisoners sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging conditions of their confinement under the Eighth Amendment. This class action suit, brought on behalf of all female state prisoners in Alabama, was based on the following claims of unconstitutional conditions: overcrowding, inadequate supervision in open dorms, inadequate inmate classification, inmate violence, th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Clarkson v. Coughlin

1:91-cv-01792 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 15, 1991

On March 15, 1991, deaf inmates at state prisons in New York filed a class action lawsuit under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12131, against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by the Prisoners' Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by the defendants' failure to pro…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Crowe v. Erickson

4:72-cv-04101 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1972

On November 21, 1972, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 suit in the District Court for the Southern Division of South Dakota against the warden, prison officials, and the Governor. Plaintiffs complained of punishment for violations of prison rules without due process of law, prison officials reading and censoring incoming and outgoing mail, poor medical treatment, inadequate religious and cultural protections, inadequate work release and employment programs, a…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Prospect Airport Services

2:05-cv-01125 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2005

Closed Date: July 25, 2017

In September 2005, the Los Angeles District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada against Prospect Airport Services, Inc. The complaint was brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. The plaintiff alleged that a male employee was sexually harassed by a female co-worker, and that the defendant company did not take steps to remedy the situation.The defendan…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. COLONIAL MANAGEMENT GROUP, LP dba ST. LOUIS METRO

4:01-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2001

Closed Date: Jan. 3, 2004

The EEOC's St. Louis district office sued Colonial Management Group, L.P, the owner of a St. Louis health care facility, on February 15, 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The EEOC's complaint is unavailable, however the consent agreement, entered on June 3, 2002, briefly states that Colonial allegedly violated Title VII when it discriminated based on race. The consent decree stipulated that Colonial would pay the intervenor, who intervened in May 2001, $15…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. NATIONWIDE HOUSING SYSTEMS, INC.

2:00-cv-00125 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 28, 2000

Closed Date: Jan. 5, 2001

The San Antonio office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, against Nationwide Housing Systems, Inc. The complaint, filed in March 2000, alleged age discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; specifically that Defendant failed to hire the charging party because of his age (over 40). The case was referred to mediation in July 2000 and in January 2001 the parties entered into a consent decree. The decree, whic…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. United Freight and Transport, Inc.

3:05-cv-00122 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: June 1, 2005

Closed Date: July 3, 2010

In June 2005, the EEOC district office in Seattle, Washington brought this suit against United Freight & Transport, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. The intervenor's complaint states that a female alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it refused to hire her as a freight transport driver because of her sex. After some discovery and a withdrawn defense motion to bifurcate, the parties settled and a consent decree was entere…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. STERLING BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION INC

1:01-cv-00732 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: June 26, 2001

Closed Date: Jan. 2, 2003

In June 2001, the EEOC district office in Phoenix, Arizona brought this suit against Sterling Brothers Construction, Inc., a general construction firm, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. The complaint states that former female employee alleged that the defendant's president and controlling shareholder violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when he created and maintained a sexually hostile working environment. Specifically, the female stated that she was ina…