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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Christina A. v. Bloomberg

4:00-cv-04036 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2000

Closed Date: 2003

On February 24, 2000, juvenile inmates at the South Dakota State Training School at Plankinton filed a civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400-1487 in the United States District Court, District of South Dakota, Southern Division, challenging conditions of confinement at the facility. Plaintiffs alleged numerous constitutional violations which included the following: (1) improper and punitive restraint methods; (2) l…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Horton v. Williams

3:94-cv-05428 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 1994

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2001

On August 11, 1994, juvenile plaintiffs filed a § 1983 civil rights class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (Tacoma), challenging conditions of confinement at the Green Hill School (GHS). Plaintiffs were represented by attorneys for the National Center for Youth Law Columbia Legal Services and sought declaratory and injunctive relief.Plaintiffs amended their Complaint on August 17, 1994. Defendants moved to dismiss, which was denied by the District …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Illinois

1:92-cv-00694 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1992

Closed Date: Feb. 14, 1996

On January 28, 1992, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of residents at the W.A. Howe Developmental Center pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. against the State of Illinois and W.A. Howe Developmental Center in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The DOJ alleged that the defendants deprived residents of the facility of their constitut…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roe v. Fauver

3:88-cv-01225 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 11, 1988

Closed Date: 1998

On March 11, 1988, plaintiff, a female New Jersey inmate, filed a lawsuit, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Rehabilitation Act, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, challenging her segregation and confinement in the St. Francis Medical Center due to her AIDS diagnosis. Plaintiff was represented by attorneys of the Public Advocate/Public Defender, Department of the Public Advocate for New Jersey and sought declaratory and injunctive relief.In her initial complaint, pla…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Giles v. Coughlin

1:95-cv-03033 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 28, 1995

James Giles, an inmate at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in New York, filed a pro-se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the state Department of Corrections on April 28, 1995, alleging that his Eighth Amendment rights had been violated when he was held in "medical keeplock" for refusing to take a test that would detect latent tuberculosis ("PPD test"). The conditions of confinement in medical keeplock were found unconstitutional in two other sou…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Blissett v. Coughlin

6:84-cv-00779 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: June 6, 1984

Donovan Blissett, a prisoner at Attica Correctional Facility in New York, filed a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York against the New York Department of Corrections on June 6, 1984, alleging a violation of his due process rights following an internal disciplinary hearing held at the Clinton Correctional Facility. Blissett asserted that his rights were violated because he did not receive adequate notice of the charges against him and was not all…
POLICING
Chavez v. Illinois State Police

1:94-cv-05307 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 1994

Closed Date: 2001

On August 30, 1994, Peso Chavez, a Hispanic private investigator and New Mexico resident, filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for alleged unconstitutional racial profiling by the Illinois State Police [ISP]. Chavez was represented by attorneys from the Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc. Defendants included the ISP; individual troopers; and supervisory officials, including those that headed "Operation Valk…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. EBY-Brown Company, LLC

1:06-cv-01083 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: July 17, 2006

Closed Date: 2009

The Indianapolis Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Eby-Brown Company, LLC in July 2006 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (Indianapolis). The complaint alleged that Eby-Brown violated Title VII by subjecting a black male employee born in the Republic of Guinea to harassment based on his race, color and national origin and retaliating against him by discharging him for his opposition to discriminatory practices and his participation in proceeding…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. BEVERLY ENTERPRISES - MISSOURI, INC.

4:98-cv-01579 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 1998

Closed Date: 2001

On September 21, 1998, the St. Louis office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against Beverly Enterprises - Missouri, Inc., Beverly Enterprises, Inc, and Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Services, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The defendants operated nursing homes in the St. Louis area. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of ten of their employees by discriminating against them on th…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. GALLIANO MARINE SERVICE

2:00-cv-02841 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2000

Closed Date: 2001

The New Orleans office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, against Galliano Marine Service, d/b/a Edison Chouest Offshore, L.L.C. The complaint, filed in September 2000, alleged sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; specifically that Defendant had subjected charging party to a sexually hostile work environment. The charging party intervened in November 2000 and in October 2001 the EEOC moved …