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LABOR RIGHTS
Walsh v. Packers Sanitation Services, Inc.

4:22-cv-03246 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

Martin Walsh filed suit in his official capacity as the Secretary of Labor for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) against Packers Sanitation Services, one of the largest food safety companies in the U.S., in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska on November 9, 2022. DOL alleged that Packers illegally employed more than two dozen children, ranging in age from 13 to 17, in meatpacking plants in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. DOL also filed a motion for a Temporary Restr…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Alma v. Noah's Ark Processors, LLC

4:20-cv-03141 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2020

Closed Date: March 1, 2021

This is a case about a meat processing plant that refused to implement basic COVID-19 precautions such as physical distancing, face masks, sick leave, and onsite testing, despite it being a uniquely susceptible environment for COVID-19. On November 23, 2020, three former employees at Noah’s Ark meat processing plant and a doctor filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. The plaintiffs sued Noah’s Ark Processors under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stenberg v. Carhart

4:97-cv-03205 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: June 12, 1997

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Nebraska. On June 12, 1997, a doctor who performed abortions filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska. The plaintiff sued the Attorney General of the state of Nebraska, the Director of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure, the County Attorney for Sarpy County, Nebraska, and the Chief Medical Officer for Nebraska. Represented by The Center for Reproductive…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Carhart v. Ashcroft

4:03-cv-03385 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2003

Closed Date: July 26, 2007

This is a case challenging the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Act, which Congress passed in 2003. Congress passed this law three years after the Supreme Court in Stenberg v. Carhart struck down a similar Nebraska statute prohibiting intact dilation and evacuation (intact D&E). 530 U.S. 914. Intact D&E is a procedure in which fetal death occurs after the physician partially delivers the fetus, in contrast with the more common type of D&E where fetal death occurs prior to extract…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sabata v. Nebraska Department of Correctional Services

4:17-cv-03107 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 1, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This is a longstanding class action filed over conditions in the Nebraska state prison system. In addition to the underlying litigation, the plaintiffs filed an emergency motion on April 10, 2020 seeking disclosure of the defendants' plan for the prevention, management, and treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic. The motion was denied on June 8. The case was voluntarily dismissed on December 1, 2020. On August 15, 2017, eleven prisoners filed a putative class action complaint agai…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Klinger v. Nebraska Department of Correctional Services

4:88-cv-00399 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: July 20, 1988

Closed Date: Feb. 25, 1997

On July 20, 1988, women incarcerated at the Nebraska Center for Women (NCW) filed a grievance with the prison's superintendent alleging that they received unequal treatment in the programs and services as compared to men incarcerated at various other prisons around Nebraska. Specifically, the plaintiffs claims revolved around access to courts, visitation opportunities, recreation time, education and vocational training, pay, library facilities, mental health programs, and general health care. W…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Hawkins v. HUD

8:90-cv-00055 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 1990

Closed Date: Feb. 17, 2005

On February 2, 1990, four public housing residents in Omaha filed this class action lawsuit against the Omaha Housing Authority (OHA), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the City of Omaha in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska. The plaintiffs alleged that the manner in which federal housing assistance programs were administered in Omaha was discriminatory and served to maintain a system of racially segregated housing. According to the Galster Report…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Wilson v. Geerdes

8:16-cv-00524 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2016

Closed Date: April 10, 2020

On November 30, 2016, a male prisoner and a transgender female prisoner in the Lincoln Correctional Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska. The court granted the plaintiff’s motions to file in forma pauperis on December 29, 2016, allowing the plaintiffs to pay reduced court fees. The plaintiffs then filed an amended complaint suing employees of the Lincoln Correctional Center in their official capacities under 42 U.S.C. §1983. The plaintiffs, filing pr…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
United States v. Nebraska

8:08-cv-00271 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: March 7, 2008

Closed Date: 2015

On March 7, 2008, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division issued a CRIPA/ADA findings letter to the State of Nebraska that detailed systemic conditions that violated the constitutional and statutory rights of the residents of the Beatrice State Developmental Center (BSDC), the State's largest facility for persons with developmental disabilities. At the time, BSDC housed close to 350 residents. The parties then swiftly concluded negotiations on a judicially enforceable remedial agreement…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Doe v. Nebraska

8:09-cv-00456 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 2009

Closed Date: 2012

On December 16, 2009, several registered sex offenders residing in Nebraska brought suit against the State of Nebraska in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge the constitutionality of the Nebraska Sex Offender Registration Act. The state law banned individuals on the sex offender registry from accessing social media, criminalized their use of websites, and required consent to search. The plaintiffs claimed that this Act departed signi…