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JAIL CONDITIONS
Rainer & U.S. v. Jones

3:78-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 3, 1978

Closed Date: Oct. 20, 2006

In 1978, plaintiffs filed class action suit against Simpson County and several officers and board members of the Simpson County Jail in the district court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Attorneys from the Central Mississippi Legal Services represented plaintiffs. In 1979, after negotiation, the court approved a consent decree requiring defendants to change regulations, policies, and procedures at the jail. In 1992, plaintiffs filed a contempt motion, and the court (Judge Tom S. Lee…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Ricci v. Okin

1:72-cv-00469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: July 14, 1972

Closed Date: 2013

On February 7, 1972 a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of mentally disabled clients of Belchertown State School in Massachusetts against various Commonwealth officials responsible for the operation of the school in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, filing under the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396(a), asserted that conditions at the school violated residents' statutory and constitutional rights, including the right to minimally adeq…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Pennsylvania

3:92-cv-00033 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 1992

Closed Date: 1996

On November 19, 1987, the United States Department of Justice notified the governor of Pennsylvania of the findings of an investigation of the Ebensburg Center in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania conducted pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). The DOJ concluded that the constitutional rights of the residents with intellectual disabilities of the Ebensburg Center were being violated by the conditions at the facility. It alleged that the center failed to provide its resi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Nunn v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:96-cv-71416 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 27, 1996

Closed Date: April 25, 2007

On March 27, 1996 women prisoners at Scott Correctional Facility and Florence Crane Facility in Michigan filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs alleged that they were subjected to a pattern and practice of sexual harassment and abuse as a result of the Michigan Department of Correction's (DOC) failure to train properly and discipline its staff. Defendants moved to dismiss. The district court (Judge John Corbett…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Imprisoned Citizens Union v. Shapp

2:70-cv-03054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 1970

Closed Date: March 23, 1999

On November 4, 1970, the Imprisoned Citizens Union, an unincorporated association composed of prisoners of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented in part by the American Civil Liberties Union, alleged that the defendants had violated their constitutional rights by failing to furnish them with necessiti…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. UMB Bank Financial Corporation

4:04-cv-01084 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2004

Closed Date: May 5, 2009

On December 1, 2004 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. EEOC sued UMB Financial Corporation (UMB) under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. With the assistance of private counsel, the complainant intervened in the lawsuit shortly after the EEOC filed this lawsuit and sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as puniti…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Voss Electric Company

5:02-cv-00092 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2002

Closed Date: March 17, 2006

The Dallas and Oklahoma City offices of the EEOC brought this suit against Voss Electric Company, doing business as Voss Lighting, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma in January 2002. The complainants brought a separate suit (5:02-cv-00100-C) against the defendants in January 2002. The cases were consolidated in March 2002 and the EEOC's case was designated the lead case. Little litigation activity occurred in either case prior to consolidation. Subseque…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. DANKA OFFICE IMAGING COMPANY

2:00-cv-02424 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2000

Closed Date: Jan. 9, 2002

In August 2000, the Birmingham Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against Danka Office Imaging Company Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. We do not have a copy of the compliant; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. The charging parties intervened in the suit in October 2000. After some discovery, the EEOC dismissed the case subject to a settlement agreement in January 2002. We do not have a copy of the settlement agreement; th…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LE BAR BAT, INC.

1:99-cv-01732 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 9, 1999

Closed Date: May 23, 2002

In March 1999, the New York office of the EEOC brought this suit in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Le Bar Bat, Inc., Die Fliedermaus L.L.C., and the individual owner of both companies. The complaint alleged a pattern or practice of racial and sexual harassment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The alleged victims of the harassment intervened in the suit as plaintiffs. The suit was resolved with a consent judgment in May of 2002. This …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LBW Investments, L.L.C. d/b/a JB's

2:01-cv-00439 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 15, 2001

Closed Date: 2009

In June 2001, the Phoenix District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit, along with the US and Salt Lake City Attorney's Office, against LBW investments, Summit Family Restaurants, Santa Barbara Restaurant Group, JB's Family Restaurants and CKE Restaurants, all doing business as JB's Family Restaurants, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Utah alleging sexual discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complain…