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JAIL CONDITIONS
Little v. Shelby County

2:96-cv-02520 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 14, 1996

Closed Date: 2005

On May 14, 1996, an inmate at the County Jail of Shelby County, Tennessee, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the County of Shelby in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Memphis Division. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that excessive violence at the Jail and insufficient guard presence resulted in his gang-related rape in violation of his Eighth Amendment rights. On July 1, 1996, …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Tennessee

2:92-cv-02062 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 1992

Closed Date: 2015

In December of 1990, the United States Department of Justice, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et al, investigated the Arlington Developmental Center (ADC) in Tennessee. The investigation revealed that conditions in the facility seriously threatened the health and safety of its developmentally delayed residents. The Department of Justice found that residents were subject to abuse and neglect, inadequate medical care, an unsafe physical en…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bowring v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:95-cv-01878 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: July 27, 1995

On July 27, 1995 Colorado inmates incarcerated at Bowie County Correctional Facility (BCCF) in Texas filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Plaintiffs were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and private attorneys. Plaintiffs' complaint, filed in November of 1995, alleged an abusive, overcrowded, unsanitary, and unhealthful environment at BCCF. It alleged forced idleness, fire danger, deficient medica…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duran v. Martinez

1:77-cv-00721 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1977

On 11/15/1977, prisoners of the Penitentiary of New Mexico, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of New Mexico against the Governor of New Mexico and officials of the New Mexico Department of Corrections. In the first amended complaint, the plaintiffs alleged that "the totality of the overcrowding and other conditions at PNM fall beneath standards of human decency, inflict needless suffering on p…
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Steubenville

2:97-cv-00966 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 1997

Closed Date: 2005

On August 28, 1997, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint against the City of Steubenville pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §14141 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to remedy an alleged pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct by officers of the Steubenville Police Department ["SPD"] including: using excessive force; making false arrests; lodging false charges; and conducting improper searches and seizures. The filing followed a year long DOJ investigation o…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
ACORN v. Edgar

1:95-cv-00174 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 1995

Closed Date: 1995

On January 11, 1995, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Equip for Equality, and several individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the State of Illinois in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, asking the court to compel the defendants to enforce the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), 42 U.S.C. Section 1973gg, et seq., usually known as the Motor Voter law. The defendants counterargued that the law in question was unconsti…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Prye v. Blunt

2:04-cv-04248 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

During 2003, a law professor residing in Illinois developed a mental illness. Due to this illness, a state court appointed the Office of State Guardian as guardian of his person and, in 2004, of his estate. He moved to Missouri, where a petition was soon filed to appoint a guardian for him. The guardianship in Illinois did not affect his eligibility to vote while residing there, but the guardianship adjudication had a different, prohibitive impact on his voting rights in Missouri. Thus, in …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Correctional Medical Services

2:99-cv-00943 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 1999

Closed Date: March 8, 2001

The EEOC's Birmingham district office sued Correctional Medical Services, Inc., a national healthcare provider, on August 31, 1999 in the U.S. District Court for the Alabama Middle District. The EEOC complaint alleged that Correctional Medical Services violated Title VII by discriminating against two of its employees by creating a racially hostile work environment and retaliating against them for their complaints by firing them. Correctional Medical Services filed two motions for summary judg…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. IBEW Local No. 998

3:02-cv-07374 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 25, 2002

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2008

The EEOC's Cleveland district office sued the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local No. 998, a national union, on July 25, 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The EEOC's complaint alleged that the IBEW violated Title VII when it discriminated against the intervenor, who intervened in May 2003, based on sex (female). Specifically, the IBEW created a sexually harassing atmosphere, failed to take corrective action in response to the intervenor's com…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Unitrin Specialty

3:06-cv-00302 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2006

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2009

The Indianapolis district office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought this lawsuit against Unitrin Specialty (a business segment of Unitrin, Inc.) and Trinity Universal Insurance Co. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Unitrin, Inc.) in September 2006 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The complaint alleged that an employee had been fired in retaliation for complaining about sex and age discrimination in the workplace, in violation of Title VII of the …