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JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
MORGAN v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA INC

4:94-cv-01184 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 17, 1994

On June 17, 1994, several black UPS center managers filed a lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (''Title VII''), and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 against UPS in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages as well as equitable relief, claiming that UPS had violated Title VII by discriminating against black salaried employees nationwide in the…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Rio Bravo International, Inc.

8:99-cv-01371 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 11, 1999

Closed Date: Nov. 14, 2005

In June 1999, the Tampa Area Office and Miami District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Rio Bravo International, Inc., Innovative Restaurant Concepts, Inc., and Applebee's International (doing business as Rio Bravo Cantina) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendants maintained a hostile work envir…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Moeller v. Taco Bell

4:02-cv-05849 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2002

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

On December 17, 2002 plaintiffs, California residents with disabilities that required them to rely on wheelchairs or scooters for mobility, filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton) against Taco Bell Corporation. Plaintiffs, represented by the Impact Fund and private counsel, claimed the Defendant denied them, on the basis of disability, full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, ad…
POLICING
Davis v. City of New York

1:10-cv-00699 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2010

This is one of four ongoing cases challenging the constitutionality of the New York Police Department's "Stop and Frisk" program. See: Floyd v. City of New York; Daniels v. City of New York; and Ligon v. City of New York. On January 28, 2010, the plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the City of New York and the New York City Housing Authority. The plaintiffs included Black and Latino New York City Housing Authority t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Reid v. Donelan

3:13-cv-30125 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 1, 2013

On July 1, 2013, a lawful permanent resident held in immigration detention in Massachusetts for eight months filed a federal habeas petition under 18 U.S.C. § 2241, and a class-action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, contending that the prolonged detention of himself and others similarly situated without an individualized bond hearing violated the Immigration & Nationality Act (INA), the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, and the Eighth Amendment's Exce…
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…
CHILD WELFARE
Wyatt B. v. Brown

6:19-cv-00556 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 16, 2019

On April 16, 2019, ten children in the custody of the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Oregon, the Director of the Oregon Department of Child Welfare, and ODHS, along with its director, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (42 U.S.C. § 12131(2)), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 USC § 794), the Adoption Assistance Pro…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Thorpe v. Virginia Department of Corrections

2:20-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: May 6, 2019

On May 6, 2019, twelve prisoners at the Red Onion and Wallens Ridge supermax prisons, who had each been in solitary confinement for between two and twenty-three years, filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs sued the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and the wardens of both Red Onion and Wallens Ridge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 19…

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