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PRISON CONDITIONS
Mayweathers v. Newland

2:96-cv-01582 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 1996

Closed Date: 2004

On August 20, 1996, Muslim state prisoners housed at the California State Prison at Solano (Solano) filed a class action lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The plaintiffs, representing themselves, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants violated their First Amendment rights to free exercise of their religion, as wel…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gavin v. Ray

4:78-cv-70062 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: March 14, 1978

On March 14, 1978, an inmate at Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against prison officials at ISP in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division. The plaintiff, represented by the University of Iowa Legal Clinic, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging various practices and policies of disciplinary segregation in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Apparently, in 1981, there was large riot a…
POLICING
Handschu v. Special Services Division

1:71-cv-02203 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 18, 1971

On May 18, 1971, residents of New York City filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued an intelligence division within the New York Police Department (NYPD), the Special Services Division (SSD), under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and private counsel, sought class certifi…
CHILD WELFARE
B.H. v. Johnson

1:88-cv-05599 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 1988

The ACLU filed this class action lawsuit in 1988 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the state of Illinois, on behalf of all children in the custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) placed somewhere other than with their parents. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Adoption Assistance Welfare Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 620-28, 670-76. The class consisted of all children who had been or would be in the custody of DCFS, a…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Arnold v. Cargill

0:01-cv-02086 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2001

Closed Date: July 10, 2007

On November 15, 2001 a group of current and former African American managers filed suit against Cargill in the Federal District Court for the District of Minnesota. Plaintiffs alleged a violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and state law by a pattern or practice of discrimination that resulted in both disparate treatment and disparate impact on African Americans employed by Cargill in terms of advancement, compensation, and termination.On July 15, 2002 the district court (Judge Donovan Frank) granted …
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nunez and United States v. City of New York

1:11-cv-05845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

On August 18, 2011, a class of incarcerated people filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment against the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC). The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and damages, claiming that DOC officers routinely inflicted wanton physical violence on prisoners and deliberately falsifi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…
POLICING
Melendres v. Arpaio

2:07-cv-02513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2007

This case concerns racial profiling by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (“MCSO”) in Arizona. On December 12, 2007, Latino motorists filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the County of Maricopa, MCSO, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201. They sought to represent a class of Latino persons who have been or will be stopped, detained, interrogated, or searched by the Sheriff or his agents in …
POLICING
Chang v. US

1:02-cv-02010 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2002

On October 15, 2002, undergraduates and law students at Georgetown University who had been arrested at a protest in September 2002, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the District of Columbia, the D.C. police department, the Fairfax, Virginia sheriff's department, and several individual police officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Bivens. Represented by a private firm, the plaintiffs asked the court for injunctive and declaratory relief…