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POLICING
U.S. v. State of New Jersey

3:99-cv-05970 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 1999

Closed Date: 2009

On December 12, 1999, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the State of New Jersey and its Division of State Police under 42 U.S.C. § 14141 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The DOJ alleged that the defendants engaged in an unconstitutional pattern or practice of performing vehicle stops and searches of African American motorists traveling on New Jersey roadways, including the New Jersey Turnpike.Simultaneously wit…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Keyes v. School District No. 1

1:69-cv-01499 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 1969

Closed Date: 1997

Keyes--the Denver school desegregation case--was the first northern school desegregation case to reach the Supreme Court, and one of the only cases where the Supreme Court identified segregation in northern schools. The Supreme Court’s 1973 opinion was influential in defining “intent” in de facto segregation. The case lasted for decades, so this summary is necessarily partial. Prior to the filing of this lawsuit on November 30, 1969, the Denver School Board adopted three resolutions between Jan…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Bowers v. City of Philadelphia

2:06-cv-03229 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 24, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On July 24, 2006, pre-trial detainees in the Philadelphia Prison System [PPS] filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), challenging the conditions of their confinement. Plaintiffs, represented by the Institutional Law Project and private attorneys, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages. Plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by severe prison…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Richardson

1:05-cv-01168 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 2005

Closed Date: July 6, 2007

This case challenged a correctional facility's religious programming as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. On November 7, 2005, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc., along with several individual members of the organization who were New Mexico taxpayers, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico against the New Mexico Corrections Department and the Correction Corporation of America (CCA), a private contractor paid to run the N…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Stock Building Supply

2:05-cv-00306 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 1, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

In July 2005, the Miami District Office of the EEOC brought this action against Stock Building Supply, d/b/a Stuart Lumber Co., in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. In its complaint, the EEOC alleged that the defendant violated both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 by discriminating against the charging party, a black employee, because of his race. In particular, the defendant promoted the charging party to a posit…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Eagle Produce

2:06-cv-01921 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 3, 2009

In August 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") filed this lawsuit against Eagle Produce L.L.C. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona alleging wage discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendant paid male Quality Control Inspectors more than female Inspectors ones despite their performance of substantially similar work duties. The c…
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. Bell Gas, Inc. (AWC Propane)

1:02-cv-01212 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2002

Closed Date: 2006

On September 26, 2002, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. Brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the EEOC filed this lawsuit on behalf of an employee of ABC Propane against ABC Propane, as well as Bell Gas and Cortez Gas Company. The plaintiff sought injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that the individual employee had been retaliated against after she filed an earlier discrimin…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LEXUS OF SERRAMONTE & SONIC AUTO

4:05-cv-00962 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 8, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

In March 2005, the EEOC district office of San Francisco, California brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Lexus of Serramonte, a Lexus automotive dealership; Sonic Automotive, Inc., an internet automotive dealership; and First America Automotive. The complaint alleged that the defendants maintained sexually hostile work environments in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After a grant of partial summary judgment for t…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
WILFONG v. RENT A CENTER

3:00-cv-00680 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2000

Closed Date: 2006

This is a quite complex case, connected to two others:In May 1999, the EEOC filed a lawsuit (EEOC v Rent-A-Center, No 99-2427-TU-V) in Memphis, Tennessee, charging that RAC, when it acquired a competitor named Rentronics, terminated female employees and refused to hire female applicants in Tennessee and Arkansas because of their sex. In 2000, female employees filed two cases. One was in Kansas City (MO), filed by two women who claimed individual bias, and ordered to mandatory arbitration by th…