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JAIL CONDITIONS
Cottone v. Jenne

0:00-cv-07545 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2000

Closed Date: July 20, 2006

Plaintiff, a personal representative for his son, sued numerous defendants associated with the Broward County Detention Center in Florida after his son, a pretrial detainee, died at the hands of a mentally ill co-inmate. The detention center was subject to a consent decree from Carruthers v. Cochran (JC-FL-008) that required the jail to institute a system of classification, separation, and monitoring of inmates. In 2002, the district court for the Southern District of Florida (Judge William J…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Inmates of the Bucks County Correctional Facility v. County of Bucks

2:02-cv-07377 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2002

On September 12, 2002, inmates of the Bucks County Correctional Facility [BCCF] filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), challenging their conditions of confinement. Plaintiffs, represented by the Institutional Law Project and private attorneys, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages. Plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by denial of nece…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramos v. City of Farmers Branch

06-12227 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2006

This case is one of four lawsuits filed against the City of Farmers Branch, Texas to challenge the City's anti-immigrant housing law, Ordinance 2892. See Vazquez v. City of Farmers Branch, Barrietos v. City of Farmers Branch and Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch, cases filed in federal court. Unlike the other three federal suits, plaintiffs filed this action in state court in the 116th Judicial District, Dallas County, Texas, and based their challenge not on the constitution…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. T & D ELECTRIC COMPANY OF BURLINGTON INC

1:06-cv-00808 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2006

Closed Date: 2007

The Richmond, Charlotte and Washington DC Offices of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against T&D Electric Company of Burlington, Inc in the United States District Court of the Middle District of North Carolina in September 2006. The complaint alleged sexual harassment and constructive discharge in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In January 2007, the defendants filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy and the case was administratively closed in February 2007. In May 2007, the plaintiff m…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Kentucky Conventional hotel Partners (d/b/a Louisville Marriott Downtown)

3:06-cv-00353 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: July 24, 2006

Closed Date: July 21, 2011

The Louisville Area Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Kentucky Convention Hotel Partners, LLC (doing business as Louisville Marriott Downtown) and White Lodging Services Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky in July 2006. The complaint alleged religious discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Four female, Muslim employees were allegedly denied employment at the Louisville Marriott Downtown when they refused to take off…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Sears Roebuck

1:04-cv-07282 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2004

Closed Date: 2012

In November 2004, the EEOC's Chicago District Office filed suit in United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, against Sears Roebuck and Company, alleging a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. According to the complaint, Sears Roebuck failed to live up to its obligations under the ADA to make reasonable accommodations when it enacted an inflexible company policy mandating a maximum of one year leave time and refused to grant exceptions for employees with disabilit…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. ROADWAY EXPRESS

1:06-cv-04805 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2015

In September of 2006, the EEOC Chicago District Office brought suit in United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, against Roadway Express, Inc., a freight hauler. The suit alleged that the defendant subjected African-American employees to harassment and different terms and conditions of employment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Shortly thereafter, several of the employees intervened as plaintiffs bringing a class action suit. The defendant moved to dismiss …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Burrito Shoppe LLC, dba Squeezers Giant Burgers

1:05-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2005

In August 2005, the Seattle Field Office of the EEOC brought this suit against The Burrito Shoppe LLC and Allied Foodservice, Inc. (both doing business as Squeezers Giant Burgers) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Idaho. The complaint alleged sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complainant was alleged to have been sexually harassed and constructively discharged because she was female. The Idaho Human Rights Commission intervene…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Miracle v. Bullitt County, Kentucky

3:05-cv-00130 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 2, 2005

Closed Date: 2009

On March 2, 2005, two women arrested for minor offenses filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, challenging the strip search policy of the Bullitt County, Kentucky Jail. Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that the Jail's blanket policy of strip searching all arrestees regardless of whether there was any reasonable suspicion that the arrestee was in possession of contraband or weapons violated the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth,…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zavala v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

2:03-cv-05309 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2003

Closed Date: 2011

On November 10, 2003, a group of 17 undocumented immigrant workers, who provided janitorial services at Wal-Mart stores nationwide, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq.; the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. §§201 et seq.; and conspiracy to violate civil rights under 42 U.S.C. §1985(3). Plaint…