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JAIL CONDITIONS
Inmates of D.C. Jail v. Jackson

1:75-cv-01668 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1975

Closed Date: 2003

On October 7, 1975, post-trial detainees at the District of Columbia jail brought a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that various conditions at the jail were unconstitutional. The plaintiff class was represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. On May 24, 1976, the District Court (Judge William Benson Bryant) granted the plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment by hold…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Zolnowski v. County of Erie

1:95-cv-00774 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 1995

Closed Date: 1998

On September 8, 1995, inmates at the Erie County Holding Center in Buffalo, New York filed a pro se class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the New York State Commission of Corrections and representatives of the jail. The plaintiff class alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding at the jail. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as monetary damages.On October 3,…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Castillo v. Cameron County, TX

1:93-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 1993

Closed Date: 2002

In 1993, plaintiffs in Cameron County Jail brought a section 1983 class action suit against the county alleging that the overcrowded conditions in the jail amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. The district court for the Southern District of Texas (Judge John William Black) certified plaintiffs' class and allowed the county to implead the State of Texas as a third-party defendant because the state failed to transfer ""paper ready"" inmates to state correctional facilities. In 1994, the co…
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
Roe v. Meachum

3:93-cv-00375 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 1993

Closed Date: May 22, 1995

This was a Section 1983 civil rights class action challenging the mental health care policies and practices of the defendant officials of the Connecticut Department of Correction at the Bridgeport Community Correctional Center. The case was filed February 24, 1993 by the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation and the ACLU National Prison Project on behalf of plaintiff inmates. Plaintiffs were also represented by private counsel (Jonathan Levine of the firm Silver, Golub & Teitell). The d…
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 …
PUBLIC HOUSING
Jaimes v. Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority

3:74-cv-00068 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 1974

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is a class action lawsuit brought by low-income residents of the metropolitan area of Toledo, Ohio against the Toledo Metropolitan Housing Authority. The plaintiffs alleged that Toledo engaged in racially discriminatory conduct in the provision and location of low-income housing and sought to enjoin Toledo from engaging in such discriminatory behavior.
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roe v. Crawford

2:05-cv-04333 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

On October 12, 2005, plaintiff filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri against the Missouri Department of Corrections [DOC], challenging the DOC's refusal to transport plaintiff to an off-site medical clinic so that she could receive a nontherapeutic abortion. The complaint alleged that that the prison's policy that female prisoners would not be sent out of their institutions for abortions that were not medically necessary depri…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.

1:20-cv-00641 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: June 29, 2001

Closed Date: Jan. 24, 2003

The EEOC's Charlotte district office sued Sears, Roebuck & Company on June 29, 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The EEOC's complaint alleged that the defendant violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it discriminated based on a physical disability (blindness). Following a number of discovery disputes, the parties successfully reached a settlement in a settlement conference taking place just weeks prior to the scheduled trial in the case. Th…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. GMRI INC (d/b/a RED LOBSTER)

2:03-cv-02489 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2003

Closed Date: Oct. 1, 2004

The St. Louis District Office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S District Court for the District of Kansas, against GMRI, Inc. d/b/a Red Lobster, a national chain restaurant. The complaint, filed in September 2003, alleged sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the charging party was sexually harassed by a coworker and as a result, the conditions of her employment were made so intolerable that she was forc…