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JAIL CONDITIONS
Essex Co. Jail Inmates v. Treffinger

2:82-cv-01945 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 10, 1982

Closed Date: 2007

On June 10, 1982, inmates of the Essex County Jail [ECJ] filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement. On October 14, 1982, the District Court (Judge Harold A. Ackerman) approved and entered a Consent Decree which specified changes to be taken at the ECJ in the areas of overcrowding, exercise, inmate visits, food service, medical care, fire prevention and other general con…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Cameron v. Tomes

1:86-cv-03607 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 1986

Closed Date: 1997

On December 2, 1986, an involuntarily committed patient at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for the Sexually Dangerous (the "Center") filed a lawsuit under state contract law against Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Boston Division. The plaintiff, represented at first by himself and later by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants violated his federal constitutional right…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Evans v. Fenty

1:76-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1976

Closed Date: 2017

On February 23, 1976, six residents of Forest Haven, an institution operated by the District of Columbia for developmentally disabled persons, filed this lawsuit against the District's mayor and its Department of Human Resources. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution; the Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 6001 et seq.); and 32 D.C.…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Combs v. Corrections Corp. of America

1:95-cv-02029 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 1995

On November 13, 1995, seven individual inmates housed in the Winn Correctional Center near Winnfield, Louisiana filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, pro se, against Louisiana corrections officials for restricting their religious freedoms. The inmates alleged that they were denied the right to participate in Native American religious gatherings and that they were denied the use of items sacred to their religion such as pipes, feathers, drums, and a sweat …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Walker v. Johnson

4:81-40336 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 19, 1981

In 1981, a group of incarcerated persons brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the State of Michigan; the Michigan Department of Corrections; and the wardens of Marquette Branch Prison, the State Prison of Southern Michigan, and the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia. The suit alleged that a lockdown imposed by prison officials in response to riots severely restricted the privileges afforded to incarcerated individuals and resulted in …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Russell v. Johnson

1:02-cv-00261 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 12, 2002

Closed Date: 2006

On July 12, 2002, death row inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi against the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). Plaintiffs were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and private attorneys. The suit alleged that the inmates were subjected to isolation, lack of exercise, inadequate ventilation, unsanitary conditions, and lack of mental …
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. 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
ALICIA MANSEL v. BUILDERS GYPSUM SUPPLY LLC (f/d/b/a BUILDERS GYPSUM SUPPLY CO INC)

5:05-cv-00965 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2005

Closed Date: May 12, 2010

The San Antonio district office of the EEOC brought this suit against Builders Gypsum Supply LLP and three individual defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in September 2005. The complaint filed by the EEOC alleged harassment based on the complainant's sex, female, and retaliation against the complainant for complaining of this sexual harassment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complainant was allowed to file a complaint as an i…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. AIRBORNE EXPRESS

1:04-cv-01118 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2004

Closed Date: 2009

The Phoenix and Albuquerque offices of the EEOC brought this suit against DHL Express, Inc. and Air One Transport in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico in September 2004. The complaint alleged discrimination against a female employee in violation of Title VII. More specifically, the complaint alleged the defendant allowed the complainant to be sexually harassed, subjected her to discipline and other conditions of employment based on her sex and failed to promote he…