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JAIL CONDITIONS
Carruthers v. Israel (Jonas v. Stack)

0:76-cv-06086 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 1976

Case Ongoing

On August 10, 1976, persons at North Broward Detention Center filed this action pro se in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs sued Broward County officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. At the time, the county's main jail was in the old courthouse where 1,200 inmates were packed into cells designed for 275. The Court appointed counsel and the parties went on to litigate the claims. We have only limited information on the first 18 years of the case; the docket…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Balla v. Board of Corrections

1:81-cv-01165 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: May 15, 1981

Case Ongoing

On May 15, 1981, a prisoner at the Idaho State Correctional Institution ("ISCI") filed a class action lawsuit against the Idaho State Board of Corrections in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho alleging Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment violations pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 as well as numerous state claims. The allegations included: (1) the prison was overcrowded and understaffed, increasing the likelihood of violence; (2) the classification system at the prison, which p…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Williams v. Boeing Co.

2:98-cv-00761 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: June 4, 1998

Closed Date: Feb. 27, 2008

On June 4, 1998 a group of African Americans filed suit against Boeing Co. and several subsidiaries, their employers, alleging racial discrimination in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Specifically, they alleged that the defendants had engaged in a pattern or practice of behavior that included policies that had a disparate impact on African-American employees and disparately treated African American employees. They also …
PUBLIC HOUSING
CODING IN PROCESS
Young v. Pierce

3:80-cv-00008 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 14, 1980

Closed Date: 2004