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JAIL CONDITIONS
Bull v. City and County of San Francisco

3:03-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 2003

Closed Date: 2013

On April 23, 2003, nine plaintiffs, acting through private attorneys, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the strip search policy of the City and County of San Francisco ("CCSF"). Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that, under CCSF policy, all prisoners who were placed in the general jail population at the CCSF's jails were subjected to strip and visual body cavity searches, with those refusing to consent be…
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, …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
John A and Mary B v. Castle

1:90-cv-00200 | U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

Filed Date: May 1, 1990

On May 1, 1990, male and female youth confined at the Ferris School and Bridge House in Wilmington, Delaware, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Youth Rehabilitation Services (YRS) and the State of Delaware in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the National Prison Project of the ACLU, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendme…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Boyden v. McCarthy/Rowland

2:86-01989 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 27, 1986

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 1989

This lawsuit was filed pro se by prisoners on March 27, 1986, in the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the California Department of Corrections and the California Institute for Men under 42 U.S.C. 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the California Institute for Men (Chino) violated their Eighth Amendment and Fifth Amendment due process rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged issues regarding sanitation, classification, legal…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Miniken v. Walter

2:96-cv-00407 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: July 24, 1996

Closed Date: 1988

On July 24, 1996, Donald W. Miliken, an inmate at the Airways Heights Corrections Center (AHCC) in Washington, filed a lawsuit pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington against the Attorney General of Washington. Plaintiff eventually retained a private attorney. He claimed that the defendant violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by failing to deliver the Prison Legal News, a publication to which he subscribed, without…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gonzalez v. Litscher

3:01-cv-00521 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2001

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2003

On September 13, 2001, a Native American prisoner at the Supermax Correctional Institution in Boscobel, Wisconsin filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants had violated his constitutional right to free exercise of his religion in three ways: 1) by removing a religious book from his cell, 2) by accommodating the religious needs of other prisoner…
POLICING
U.S. v. State of New Jersey

3:99-cv-05970 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 1999

Closed Date: 2009

On December 12, 1999, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and its Division of State Police under 42 U.S.C. § 14141 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The DOJ alleged that the defendants engaged in an unconstitutional pattern or practice of performing vehicle stops and searches of African American motorists traveling on New Jersey roadways, including the New Jersey Turnpike.Simultaneously wit…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. U.S. SIGNS

1:01-cv-00809 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2001

Closed Date: June 29, 2004

The EEOC's New York district office sued U.S. Signs, Inc., a national large-scale retail sign manufacturer and distributor, on November 15, 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The EEOC's complaint is unavailable, however the EEOC's causes of action are written in the consent decree. The EEOC alleged that U.S. Signs violated Title VII when it discriminated against the intervenor, who intervened in May 2002, based on sex (male) by creating a sexually harassing …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LA MEXICANA INC

2:06-cv-01359 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 2006

Closed Date: May 30, 2010

The Seattle District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against La Mexicana, Inc. and Albert Walden in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in September 2006. The complaint alleged that the Defendant violated Title VII because its manager, Albert Walden, subjected the female complainant to sexual harassment. The complainant intervened in the EEOC's suit, alleging violations of Title VII, Washington's state anti-discrimination law, and state tort claims. The …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. MIKE ALBERT LEASING INCORPORATED

4:06-cv-03062 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

The Houston office of the EEOC brought this suit against Mike Albert Leasing Inc., in September 2006, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The complaint alleged that Mike Albert Leasing fired the complainant due to his age, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. After some discovery and a failed motion by the defendant for summary judgment, the parties settled the case by entry of a consent decree in February 2008.The consent decree, which was in e…