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PRISON CONDITIONS
Clement v. California Department of Corrections

4:00-cv-01860 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 23, 2000

Closed Date: 2004

On May 23, 2000, an inmate at the Pelican Bay State Prison filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the California Department of Corrections. The plaintiff, who was represented by the ACLU and private counsel, sought injunctive relief and damages, alleging (1) that the delay in his diagnosis of and treatment for colon cancer amounted to cruel and unusual punishment, (2) that the prison's refusal to provide him with medical…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Fussell v. Wilkinson

1:03-cv-00704 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Oct. 14, 2003

Closed Date: 2012

On October 14, 2003, the Ohio Justice & Policy Center filed a class action lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on behalf of three prisoners who claimed that their health care was unconstitutionally inadequate. In particular, they cited staffing shortages, long delays in the provision of routine and emergency care, problems ordering and obtaining results of diagnostic tests, and inadequate contro…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Cook

3:98-cv-01344 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 1998

Closed Date: 2001

On October 29, 1998, the Prison Legal News and inmates in Oregon prisons filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against the Oregon Department of Corrections and several of its officials. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the Oregon Law Center and private counsel, sought injunctive relief as well as damages, alleging that the defendants' mail policy, as applied to subscription non-profit publications, violated due process and the First …
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Detroit, Michigan

2:03-cv-72258 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 12, 2003

Closed Date: May 31, 2016

On June 12, 2003, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Detroit. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 14141, the DOJ alleged a pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct by officers of the Detroit Police Department (DPD), including the excessive use of force, false arrest, improper warrantless searches and failure to protect detainees. Contemporaneously with the filing o…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Bynum v. District of Columbia

1:02-cv-00956 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 15, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

On May 15, 2002, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, plaintiffs filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia, claiming that D.C. Jail officials violated their Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendment rights in detaining them beyond their release dates and violated their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by conducting blanket strip searches. According to the plaintiffs, the District routinely strip searched and rebooked prisoners…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Presley v. Epps

4:05-cv-00148 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 22, 2005

Closed Date: 2012

On June 22, 2005, attorneys for the local ACLU and the ACLU National Prison Project filed a class-action § 1983 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on behalf of inmates confined in Unit 32 of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi. The lawsuit alleged dangerous and inhumane conditions of confinement in Unit 32, a "supermax" facility operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). The plaintiffs immediately moved for clas…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. WYETH d/b/a FORT DODGE ANIMAL HEALTH

3:02-cv-03075 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2002

Closed Date: May 26, 2005

The Milwaukee District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, their Fort Dodge Animal Health facility, in September 2002, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. The suit was based on sexual harassment and retaliation, against a female employee, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After Wyeth's motion for summary judgment was denied the two parties worked toward and reached a settlement on March 26, 2004. The…
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. MICRON TECHNOLOGY

2:05-cv-00546 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 30, 2005

Closed Date: 2009

The EEOC's Phoenix district office sued Micron Technology on June 30, 2005 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The EEOC's complaint alleged that the defendant violated Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act when it discriminated against the intervenor, who intervened in October 2005, based on physical disability (deafness) and national origin. The parties entered into a consent decree on February 27, 2007, which stipulated that the defendant would pay the complaina…