Support Article

How To Search Guide
Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:

Support Article

How To Search Guide
47 cases, 128,959 documents
Ordered by
PRISON CONDITIONS
Denike v. Fauver

2:83-02737 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: July 24, 1983

On July 24, 1983, inmates at Rahway State prison filed a law suit pro se against officials and employees of the New Jersey State Department of Corrections in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, alleging violations of their constitutional rights. Specifically, plaintiffs alleged that defendants had violated the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution by conducting urine tests of inmates. Two other pro se complaints contesting the urine tes…
EDUCATION
Emma C. v. Eastin

3:96-cv-04179 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 1996

On November 18, 1996, a group of students with disabilities filed this class-action lawsuit against the Ravenswood City School District and the state education department in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The eight named plaintiffs were school-aged children with disabilities who then attended, or had in the past attended, schools in Ravenswood. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA"), Section 504 of t…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Christensen v. Utah State University

1:06-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: May 8, 2006

Closed Date: 2007

On May 8, 2006, twelve deaf Utah State University students filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, against Utah State and its Board of Regents. The case was brought under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, with the Plaintiffs alleging that the Defendants had discriminated against them in many ways, including: denying them access to the…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karraker v. Rent-A-Center Inc.

2:02-cv-02026 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2002

Closed Date: 2005

On January 28, 2002, current and former employees, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, sued their employer, Rent-A-Center, Inc. (RAC), in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. and state laws. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief as well as class certification. On March 22, 2002, the plaintiffs amended their complaint, and…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Perdue v. Individual Members of the Indiana State Board of Law Examiners

1:09-cv-00842 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: July 7, 2009

On July 7, 2009, a member of the Illinois bar who sought to join the Indiana bar filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, under § 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.), against members of the Indiana State Board of Law Examiners. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the ACLU of Indiana, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the state agency violated their rights by making unnecessary in…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Department of Fair Employment & Housing v. Law School Admissions Council (LSAC)

3:12-cv-01830 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 15, 2012

Closed Date: May 20, 2020

In March 2012, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) filed a complaint in the Alameda County Superior Court (San Francisco, CA) alleging that the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) discriminated against and routinely failed to grant appropriate accommodations for test takers with disabilities on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). DFEH claimed that LSAC violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, which inc…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Damiani v. City of East Providence

1:08-cv-00405 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2008

Closed Date: 2010

On October 27, 2008, a disabled man with a pre-existing cardiovascular condition filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the City of East Providence, Rhode Island and various city officials under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12112, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794 and State of Rhode Island's Fair Employment Practices Act. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel and with permission from the EEOC, asked …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Creative Networks L.L.C.

2:09-cv-02023 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2009

Closed Date: 2015

On September 28, 2009, the EEOC filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against Creative Networks LLC under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a). The EEOC alleged that Creative Networks LLC violated the ADA by failing to provide reasonable accommodations to deaf and hard of hearing job applicants through its policy of capping the money spent on accommodations for job training at $200. The EEOC argued that such caps were both a viola…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Law School Admissions Council v. California

13-34201300 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2013

On January 10, 2013, the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Sacramento County against the State of California. The plaintiff alleged that Section 99161.5 of the California Education Code, which required the plaintiff, and no other testing entity, to accommodate individuals with disabilities and create of a process to appeal adverse accommodations decisions, violated the California Constitution's Equal Protection Clause (Article I § 7 Subdivision a) and…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Jones v. National Conference of Bar Examiners

5:11-cv-00174 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: July 1, 2011

Closed Date: 2012

On July 1, 2011, a law student who was legally blind and learning disabled filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont against the National Conference of Bar Examiners and the ACT, which administrated the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE). The complaint alleged that the defendants violated the ADA by refusing to allow the plaintiff to take an electronic version of MPRE with screen reading and magnification software she had used for all of her p…