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JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
POLICING
Thomas v. County of Los Angeles

2:90-cv-05217 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 1990

Closed Date: May 4, 2010

On September 26, 1990, the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund (LDF) filed a class action civil rights lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985. The class included more than 100 minority residents of Lynwood, a South-Central Los Angeles neighborhood. The plaintiffs sued the County of Los Angeles (“County”), the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (“LASD”), the City of Lynwood (“City”), and several individual LAS…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
U.S. v. Jefferson County Bd. of Ed./Stout v. Jefferson County Bd. of Ed.

2:65-cv-00396 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 4, 1965

This is the case in which the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals took the firm position that "freedom of choice" plans could be legally insufficient to meet the constitutional obligations of a formerly de jure segregated school system to convert from "dual" to "unitary" schools. 372 F.2d 836 (1966) (Judge John Minor Wisdom), and that the Department of Health Education and Welfare's approach to school desegregation planning was appropriate. It stood in contrast to the opposite view taken by the lo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party v. Hazeltine

3:00-cv-03021 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: May 4, 2000

Closed Date: 2000

On May 4, 2000, the Libertarian Party of South Dakota and several concerned citizens filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The plaintiffs sued South Dakota, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, they asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the State misinterpreted state election law when it denied Libertarian Party candidate Brian Lerohl’s request to be added to the primary election ballot. Specificall…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. PERRY AUTOMOTIVE GROUP INC

2:05-cv-06695 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

EEOC's Los Angeles, CA office filed this racial discrimination lawsuit against the defendant, Hysen-Johnson Ford, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on 09/12/2005. The defendant was a Ford dealer operating a facility in San Luis Obispo, CA. EEOC alleged on behalf of a black male employee at the San Luis Obispo facility that he was subject to racially discriminatory terms and conditions, racial harassment, intimidation, and hostile work environment.…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. WORLD SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION, INC.

1:98-cv-03315 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 1998

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 1999

In September 1998, the EEOC district office in Baltimore, Maryland brought this suit against World Savings & Loan Association, Inc., a general lending association, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, alleging discrimination on the basis of race, religion, and national origin. The defendant moved to stay the proceedings and to compel arbitration on the grounds that the charging parties had signed agreements requiring them to arbitrate all disputes arising out of their emplo…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. INSIGNIA RESIDENTIAL GROUP, L.P.

5:99-cv-00119 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 1999

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2000

In February 1999, the EEOC district office in San Antonio, Texas brought this suit against the Insignia Residential Group in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Although the complaint is currently unavailable, the consent decree states the two males alleged the the defendant unlawfully discriminated against them on the basis of race in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Shortly after the defendant filed its initial answer and the case was reassigned…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. AIRBORNE EXPRESS

2:98-cv-01471 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: March 20, 1998

Closed Date: June 18, 1999

The Philadelphia Office of the EEOC filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The Defendant was Airborne Express, shipper of personal and commercial goods. The controversy involved alleged harassment on the basis of race and retaliation by the defendant in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The lawsuit was filed in March of 1998 and was resolved when the court dismissed the case with prejudice in June 1999 because the parties s…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. City of Sheffield Fire Department

3:99-cv-01691 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 30, 1999

Closed Date: 2005

On June 30, 1999, the EEOC filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act against the City of Sheffield, the Civil Service Board of the City of Sheffield, and the Civil Service Board members in their official and individual capacities. The EEOC's complaint alleged that defendants discriminated against three firefighters over the age of 40 when they promoted a younger employee with less seniority to the position …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Wolverine Bronze Company

2:04-cv-73813 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2004

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2005

On September 29, 2004 the EEOC filed complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of an individual employee and others similarly situated. The complaint alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 committed by the Wolverine Bronze Company, Inc. for allowing racial harassment which created a hostile work environment. Additionally, the EEOC claimed the defendant failed to take action to stop the harassment.On November 9, 2005, Ju…