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NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation of the Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco, CA

none | No Court

On February 7, 1997, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched an investigation under the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997, into conditions at the Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco, California. On May 6, 1998, the Department issued a report on its findings. The officials found, upon review of medical records, interviews, and on-site surveys, that the Center's conditions violated the residents' constitutional rights. The Center pro…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Crawford

3:00-cv-00373 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: July 11, 2000

Closed Date: 2016

On 07/11/2000, Prison Legal News filed this suit in the District of Nevada. PLN sued the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) under 42 U.S.C. §1983. PLN, represented by the ACLU National Prison Project, asked the court for declaratory and permanent injunctive relief, prohibiting NDOC from engaging in further unlawful censorship of books, magazines and other correspondence from PRISON LEGAL NEWS, as well as damages. PLN claimed that NDOC’s censorship of PLN’s speech violated the First and Fou…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Robert G. Aptekar, M.D. (d/b/a Arthritis and Orthopedic Medical Clinic)

5:06-cv-04808 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2006

Closed Date: 2007

On August 9, 2006, the San Francisco office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California under Title VII against Robert G. Aptekar, MD, Inc. and the Arthritis and Orthopedic Medical Clinic. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of the complainant by subjecting her to racial harassment, subjecting her to a hostile work environment, and by retaliating against her when she filed a complaint…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Olvera-Morales v. Int'l Labor Mgmt. Corp.

1:05-cv-00559 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2002

Closed Date: 2009

On December 23, 2002, a Mexican woman who worked in the U.S. as a non-immigrant guest worker filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, alleging that various labor recruiters engaged in sex discrimination against women who they were placing as non-immigrant guest workers at various U.S. farms. Specifically, plaintiff alleged a systematic practice by recruiters of denying women the opportunity to obtain seasonal work (agricultural work, such as…
PRISON CONDITIONS
T.R. v. South Carolina Department of Corrections

2005-CP-40-02925 | South Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: June 10, 2005

On June 10, 2005, inmates suffering from serious mental illness filed this class action lawsuit in the Fifth Circuit Court of South Carolina, a state trial court, against the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The suit alleged that the defendant violated the South Carolina Constitution's ban on "cruel," "corporal" and "unusual punishment" (Art. I § 15) as well as its duty under the South Carolina Constitution to provide basic care for prisoners (Art. XII § 2, a claim that was eventually …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Jock v. Sterling Jewelers, Inc.

1:08-cv-02875 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 18, 2008

On March 18, 2008, sixteen current and former female employees of Sterling Jewelers, Inc., filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Sterling, a large jewelry retailer. The case was assigned to District Judge Jed Sol Rakoff. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued under under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000e), the Equal Pay Act (29 U.S.C. § 206(d)), and the Age Discrimination in Employm…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Gonzalez v. Pritzker

1:10-cv-03105 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 13, 2010

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2016

On April 13, 2010, rejected U.S. Census Bureau job applicants filed an employment discrimination class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by a coalition of public interest attorney organizations and private counsel, alleged that Census hiring procedures, which pre-screened all applicants with arrest records, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The Census screened out applicants whose names turn up in an FBI database, indi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Pearson v. Samsonite Company Stores, Inc.

3:09-cv-01263 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 24, 2009

Closed Date: April 9, 2010

This class action involving store managers at Samsonite Company Stores, Inc. was filed on March 24, 2009, in the U.S. District Court, California Northern District. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought class certification (collective class and state classes for New York and California plaintiffs) as well as compensatory, declaratory, and injunctive relief, claiming that defendants consistently failed to pay appropriate overtime compensation as required by federal and state law.…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Shelby County v. Holder

1:10-cv-00651 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 27, 2010

On April 27, 2010, Shelby County, Alabama, filed this lawsuit in the District Court of the District of Columbia, challenging the Voting Rights Act's preclearance provision, Section 5. The county sought declaratory and injunctive relief, arguing that the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional in declaring Shelby County a "covered" jurisdiction and requiring that it obtain approval from the Department of Justice prior to implementing any voting changes. Following a decision in September of 2010 t…