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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
E. R. v. McDonnell

1:94-cv-02816 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 1994

Closed Date: 2001

On December 9, 1994, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of all children detained at the Phillip B. Gilliam Youth Services Center (Gilliam) in Denver, Colorado, in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, against the State of Colorado. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the ACLU of Colorado, the Youth Law Center, and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bear v. Kautzky

4:01-cv-40456 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: July 27, 2001

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2006

Four inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit on July 27, 2001 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, challenging a policy that banned prisoners' communications with other prisoners who served as jail-house lawyers. Plaintiffs alleged that this policy violated their First Amendment right to freedom of expression and their Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights to be free from retaliation. Plaintiffs sought …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hoevenaar v. Lazaroff

2:03-cv-00190 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: March 3, 2003

Closed Date: 2008

On 03/03/2003, a Cherokee prisoner at the Madison Correctional Institute, represented by the Prison Reform Advocacy Center, filed a Section 1983 lawsuit in the Southern District of Ohio against the warden of the Madison Correctional Institute. The plaintiff alleged the defendant had violated his rights under the First Amendment by refusing to allow him to grow his hair as required by his religious beliefs. Plaintiff also claimed this violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Perso…
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…
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Columbus, Ohio

2:99-cv-01097 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1999

Closed Date: 2002

In 1998, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) conducted an investigation of the Columbus Division of Police (CDP). As a result of the investigation, the DOJ determined that CDP officers were engaged in a pattern or practice of using excessive force, making false arrests and lodging false charges, and conducting improper searches and seizures in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. On October 21, 1999, the DOJ filed a complaint against the City of Columbus, …
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Voshell v. Spence

4:03-cv-40522 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2003

Closed Date: 2009

On September 22, 2003, several inmates in the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa, filed a lawsuit pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against administrative officials of the Iowa Department of Corrections in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The plaintiffs, later appointed private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief and damages, alleging that the defendants were subjecting them to "religious discrimination and persecution." Spe…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hollingsworth v. Campbell County, Kentucky

2:05-cv-00079 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 29, 2005

Closed Date: June 30, 2008

Built in 1991, the Campbell County Detention Center was designed to hold 135 prisoners. It quickly became overcrowded. In the weeks before this lawsuit was filed in the district court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, on April 29, 2005, the jail's population reached a high of 276 prisoners, many of whom were forced to sleep on the floor. Many of the inmates were awaiting transfer to the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC), which was also named as a defendant in this lawsuit. The KDO…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. PAPILLON SALONS & COMPANY, INC.

2:02-cv-03149 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 29, 2002

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 2007

The New York District Office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. Distrcit Court for the Eastern District of New York, against Papillion Salons & Co., Inc., a salon located in Manhattan, and related businesses. The complaint, filed in May 2002, alleged age discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. Specifically, the complaint alleged that Defendant terminated the charging party from her employment as a receptionist because of her age, which was over…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. BEVERLY ENTERPRISES - MISSOURI, INC.

4:98-cv-01579 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 1998

Closed Date: 2001

On September 21, 1998, the St. Louis office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against Beverly Enterprises - Missouri, Inc., Beverly Enterprises, Inc, and Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Services, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The defendants operated nursing homes in the St. Louis area. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of ten of their employees by discriminating against them on th…