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JAIL CONDITIONS
Dunsmore v. State of California

3:20-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: March 2, 2020

This class action lawsuit alleged that the San Diego County Jail denied proper health accommodations to detainees. On March 2, 2020, a jail detainee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiff sued the State of California, San Diego County, the San Diego Sheriff's Department, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the San Diego County Sheriff, and the Attorney General of California. Proceeding pro se and in forma pau…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Satchell v. Federal Express Corp.

3:03-cv-02659 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 6, 2003

Closed Date: 2012

On June 6, 2003, a group of African American and Latino employees filed this class action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, Cal. Gov. Code § 12900 et seq., against their employer, FedEx, in Alameda County Superior Court. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that FedEx discriminated against its African American and Latino employees. Specifically,…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Orantes-Hernandez v. Meese

2:82-cv-01107 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 4, 1982

In 1982, a group of Salvadoran refugees filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, challenging practices and procedures of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in detaining, processing, and removing those seeking political asylum from El Salvador. The plaintiffs alleged that the INS (1) used coercive tactics to cause Salvadorans to accept "voluntary departure" to El Salvador; (2) failed to advise them of their right to co…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Achari v. Signal International, LLC

2:13-cv-06218 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: March 21, 2013

Closed Date: May 26, 2017

This is the third case filed in the Signal International cases. On May 21, 2013, 33 Indian guestworkers filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, for harm suffered as a result of an allegedly fraudulent and coercive employment recruitment scheme. The case was filed after District Judge Jay Zainey denied class certification on Jan. 3, 2012 in the related case David v. Signal International. Plaintiffs were represented by private law firms. Plaintiffs …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
United States v. Firestack-Harvey

2:13-cr-00024 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On February 6, 2013, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Washington indicted five defendants on six counts: conspiracy to manufacture 100 or more marijuana plants, manufacture of 100 or more marijuana plants, possession with the intent to distribute more than 50 marijuana plants, distribution of marijuana, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime, and maintaining a place for the manufacture and distribution of marijuana. The Federal Public Defender was appointed to rep…