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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
United States v. Terrell County (GA)

1:04-cv-00076 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 7, 2004

Closed Date: July 15, 2014

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Terrell County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Terrell County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, grievance system, exercise, visitation, access to reading materials and religious services, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, suicide prevention,…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe v. Napper

1:93-cv-00642 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 26, 1993

Closed Date: 1998

On March 26, 1993, juvenile inmates of Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center ("MRYDC"), filed a class action law suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, against the Georgia Department of Child and Youth Services ("DCYS"), MRYDC, and the State Department of Education ("DOE"). The Plaintiffs, represented originally by Atlanta Legal Aid, alleged unsafe and unsanitary conditions of confinement including: overcrowding; lack of heat; inadequate bat…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Jaimes v. Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority

3:74-cv-00068 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 1974

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is a class action lawsuit brought by low-income residents of the metropolitan area of Toledo, Ohio against the Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority. The plaintiffs alleged that Toledo engaged in racially discriminatory conduct in the provision and location of low-income housing and sought to enjoin Toledo from engaging in such discriminatory behavior.
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, …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harper v. Bennett

1:04-cv-01416 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 19, 2004

Closed Date: 2015

On May 19, 2004, inmates at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued Fulton County and the Georgia Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the conditions of their confinement under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The class action suit, brought on behalf of inmates who were currently or would be incarcerated in the future at the Fulton County Jail facilities in Atla…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. SEELYE-WRIGHT OF SOUTH HAVEN, INC.

1:05-cv-00677 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2005

Closed Date: 2007

The Detroit office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, against Seelye-Wright of South Haven, Inc., a car dealership in South Haven, Michigan. The complaint, filed in September 2005, alleged sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that Defendant had retaliated against the charging party by filing a complaint against him for libel and slander …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Mitchell Temporary And Dakota Pork Industries

4:03-cv-04222 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

The EEOC's Denver district office sued Dakota Pork Industries, Inc., a South Dakota meat processing facility, and Mitchell Temporary, a South Dakota employment agency, on September 29, 2003 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The EEOC's complaint alleged that Mitchell and Dakota violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when they discriminated against the intervenor, who intervened in April 2004, based on a disability (deafness) when they failed to hire her and inst…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Fitness First

0:05-cv-61580 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2005

Closed Date: 2010

The Miami District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against PH Fitness, Inc., which owns Fitness First, in September of 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The suit was based on an unlawful termination of the complainant for being a female and being pregnant. She had just received a promotion when she told her boss that she was pregnant, after which she was quickly terminated. The complainant intervened and her complaint was dismissed twice due to failu…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Bender Shipbuilding

1:01-cv-00358 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 17, 2001

Closed Date: Nov. 26, 2004

The EEOC's Birmingham district office sued Bender Shipbuildiung & Repair Co., Inc., on May 17, 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. The EEOC's complaint alleged that the defendant violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it discriminated based on a physical disability (hearing impairment) by failing to hire an otherwise qualified hearing impaired welder. The parties entered into a settlement agreement on November 26, 2002, following the defendant's mo…