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Liu v. Donna Karan International, Inc.

1:00-cv-04221 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 7, 2000

Closed Date: 2007

On June 7, 2000, a group of Chinese immigrant garment workers filed a lawsuit against their employers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 216(b) and the New York Minimum Wage Act, N.Y. Lab. Law § 650 et seq. Plaintiffs, who were represented by attorneys for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, alleged that they worked 80 hour, were paid below minimum wage and were not paid overtime. Th…
POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

No Docket | No Court

Filed Date: 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)On August 5, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department. According to the announcement, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, will examine whether the City and the Department violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment of citizens or the 1964 Civil Rights Act an…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Palmigiano v. Baxter

1:72-cv-05053 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1972

Closed Date: 1976

In 1973, a prison inmate brought suit seeking damages and declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 USC § 1983 challenging due process violations in prison disciplinary procedures at Rhode Island's Adult Correctional Institutions (A.C.I.). The inmate had been charged with inciting a disturbance, and though told that the charge might result in an additional prosecution in state courts, was not allowed to have an attorney present at the disciplinary hearing. He was also advised that his silence …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Rutherford v. Block

2:75-cv-04111 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 1975

On February 9, 1975, prisoners represented by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the practices and conditions of confinement at the Los Angeles County Central Jail (the "Jail"). On December 31, 1975, the District Court certified the class.Following a 17 day trial on the matter and unannounced jail inspections by the Court, the District Court (Judge William P. Gray) entered an orde…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Marioneaux v. Colorado State Penitentiary

1:78-cv-01065 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 1978

Case Ongoing

On October 12, 1978, maximum security prisoners at the Colorado State Penitentiary filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Colorado Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The prisoners alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by the prison officials' placement of prisoners in punitive and administrative segregation without due process, which was a failure to comply with the procedures set forth in the prison …
JAIL CONDITIONS
O'Bryan v. Saginaw County

1:75-cv-10075 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 1975

Case Ongoing

In 1975, the plaintiffs filed this class action suit against the Saginaw County Jail on behalf of themselves and all inmates, seeking permanent injunctive and declaratory relief. The plaintiffs challenged a variety of jail conditions, including disciplinary practices, visitation policies, availability of exercise, access to legal material, censorship of communication, and separation of adults from juveniles.After a trial on the merits in 1977, the District Court for the Eastern District of Mic…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Arney v. Bennett

3:77-cv-03045 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1977

Case Ongoing

On February 23, 1977, inmates of state prisons in Lansing and Hutchinson, Kansas filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Kansas in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs, represented by the Washburn University School of Law Legal Clinic and Legal Services for Prisoners, alleged that prison overcrowding violated their constitutional rights. The prisoners claimed that double-celling, outdoor dormitories, the conditions …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Blue v. Lockhart

5:84-cv-00551 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

Case Ongoing

On December 5, 1984, a prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Arkansas filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Arkansas Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging that prison officials had violated his constitutional right to free exercise of his religion. The parties entered into a consent decree.On April 16, 1992 the plaintiff asked the court to hold the defendants in contempt, claiming that they had violated the consent d…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Parton v. White

2:81-cv-00019 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 11, 1981

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 1981, prisoners at the Missouri Training Center for Men in Moberly, Missouri, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Missouri Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs, represented by Gateway Legal Services, alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding at the prison. On November 21, 1983, the parties entered into a consent decree, and on December 30, 1983, the U.S. …
PRISON CONDITIONS
West v. Manson

2:83-cv-00366 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: May 9, 1983

Case Ongoing

On May 9, 1983, female inmates, pretrial detainees, and the children of the inmates and pretrial detainees incarcerated at Niantic Correctional Institution in Niantic, Connecticut, brought a class action law suit against the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections, the Warden of the correctional facility, and the Commissioner of the Department of Children and Youth Services. The plaintiffs were represented by the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union and Greater Hartford Legal Aid. The part…