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JAIL CONDITIONS
Campbell v. McGruder

1:71-cv-01462 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 21, 1971

Closed Date: 2004

On July 21, 1971, pre-trial detainees at the District of Columbia Jail filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the mayor of the District of Columbia and jail officials. The complaint sought declaratory and injunctive relief for a long list of violations of the inmates' Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional rights. These included overcrowding, inadequate food, denial of access to counsel, inadequate medical services…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Reinschmeidt v. City of Wichita, KS

99-2312 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: 1999

Closed Date: 2002

Sometime in 1999, a citizen of Wichita, Kansas, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the city in Sedgwick County, Kansas District Court alleging that citizens' constitutional rights had been violated by the city and the Municipal Court, by holding people in contempt of court without proper hearing or legal counsel and jailing them or forced them to work at work release until their traffic or misdemeanor fines had been paid. We do not have a copy of the docket and do not k…
PRISON CONDITIONS
D.M. v. Terhune

3:96-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 11, 1996

Closed Date: 1999

On April 11, 1996, prisoners of the state of New Jersey filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) against the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Social Justice at the Seton Hall University School of Law, were a class of mentally ill inmates who alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by the denial of treatmen…
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Pittsburgh

2:97-cv-00354 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 1997

Closed Date: 2005

On February 26, 1997, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint against the City of Pittsburgh ["City"], the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police ["PBP"], and the Department of Public Safety pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §14141 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania to remedy an alleged pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct by officers of the PBP which included: using excessive force; making false arrests; lodging false charges; and conducting improper searches a…
POLICING
Rodriguez v. California Highway Patrol

5:99-cv-20895 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 3, 1999

Closed Date: 2006

On June 3, 1999, Plaintiffs, represented by ACLU, filed suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California against the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement ("BNE"), alleging a policy, pattern and practice of targeting African-Americans and Latinos in conducting stops, detentions, interrogations and searches of motorists as part of a federally financed drug interdiction program know as ``Operation Pipeline.'' The co…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
ACORN v. Edgar

1:95-cv-00174 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 1995

Closed Date: 1995

On January 11, 1995, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Equip for Equality, and several individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the State of Illinois in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, asking the court to compel the defendants to enforce the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), 42 U.S.C. Section 1973gg, et seq., usually known as the Motor Voter law. The defendants counterargued that the law in question was unconsti…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Tyson Foods, Inc.

2:98-cv-02934 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 1998

Closed Date: June 11, 2001

The EEOC's Birmingham district office sued Tyson Foods, a national livestock product distributor, and the discriminating supervisor on December 22, 1993 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The EEOC's complaint, which is unavailable, alleged that Tyson violated Title VII when it discriminated against one of its employees based on sex (female) by creating a hostile work environment and constructively discharged her. Tyson filed three motions for summary judgment in …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Intracostal Health System, Inc.

9:99-cv-08707 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 1999

Closed Date: Feb. 6, 2001

In September 1999, the EEOC's Miami District Office brought suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, against Intracoastal Health Systems and St. Mary's Hospital. The complaint alleged the female employees at the defendants' West Palm Beach facility were given reduced workloads because of their sex and were forced to change shifts to accommodate male employees, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.One of the female employees intervened as a plaintiff, and in…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc.

1:04-cv-03114 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2004

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2007

In September 2004, the EEOC instituted this action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc d/b/a Eight O'Clock Coffee. The EEOC alleged that the defendant had retaliated against an employee for opposing a practice made illegal by Title VII. Specifically, the complainant opposed the defendant's alleged practice of discriminating against another employee on the basis of race. F…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Kelly Paving, Inc.

1:98-cv-02940 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 1998

Closed Date: March 17, 1999

In October 1998, the EEOC office in Atlanta, Georgia filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Kelly Paving, Inc. which concluded by March 1999 in a consent decree. This summary is being written based solely on the docket in the case, but it is known that the defendant was ordered to pay $10,000 to the EEOC ($5000 in backpay and interest and $5000 in compensatory damages). There is an accompanying related case with similar events.