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Zelaya v. Miles

3:19-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This class action lawsuit was brought by Latino workers in a slaughterhouse in Grainger County, Tennessee. Federal agents conducted a raid of the plant and detained all the Latino workers based on their ethnicity, without checking whether a worker was authorized to work in the U.S. or not.
INDIGENT DEFENSE
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In re Petition of Knox County Public Defender

174552-L | Tennessee state trial court

Filed Date: 2008

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In this case, the Knox County (Tennessee) Public Defender, Mark Stevens, filed a petition in the misdemeanor division of the general sessions court, complaining that too-high caseloads rendered the Public Defender's office unable to offer ethical representation. In an unusual trial, the case was heard by all of the General Sessions Judges in Knox County, sitting en banc; they decided against the petitioner. He appealed the decision to the…
EDUCATION
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Tennessee v. U.S. Department of Agriculture

3:22-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: July 26, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case, filed by 22 Republican attorneys general, is about a U.S. Department of Agriculture school meal program that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
EDUCATION
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Tennessee v. United States Department of Education

3:21-cv-00308 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case, brought by 20 Republican attorneys general against the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is about directives that extended federal sex discrimination protections to LGBTQIA+ people, ranging from transgender girls participating in school sports to the use of school and workplace bathrooms that align with a person’s gender identity.
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
McEwen v. Lee

20-0242-II | Tennessee state trial court

Filed Date: March 2, 2020

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On March 2, 2020, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Tennessee, the Education Law Center, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed suit in Tennessee's Davidson County Court against Governor Lee and State Board of Education challenging a voucher program designed to siphon money from Memphis public schools to private schools as unconstitutional.
PRISON CONDITIONS
John L. v. Adams

3:88-cv-00924 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 1988

Case Ongoing

John L., a juvenile whose last name is unknown, brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 through his next friend Andrew J. Shookhoff of the Vanderbilt Legal Clinic on November 7, 1988. Legal Services of South Central Tennessee also provided counsel for the plaintiff. The plaintiff was 17 years old when he filed the suit alleging that he was being denied the right of access to the courts. At the time, plaintiff was incarcerated in the Taft Youth Center in Pikeville, Tennessee, a s…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Armstrong v. Metropolitan Gov. of Nashville and Davidson County

3:87-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: March 31, 1987

Closed Date: 2002

On March 31, 1987, inmates and pretrial detainees being held at the jails in Davidson County, Tennessee filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Tennessee Department of Corrections and the Metropolitan Government of the City of Nashville in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs, represented by the Vanderbilt University Legal Clinic, alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by conditions at the jail, including overcrowd…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. TRI-STATE SECURITY INC

1:04-cv-00219 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: July 22, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2008

The Memphis District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Tri-State Security, Inc., which provides security services for various companies in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July of 2004, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The case was based on discrimination of a handicapped person, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The complainant, who intervened in the suit, was a male who was hit by a car as a child and suffered brain damage and was sus…
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EEOC v. Thyssenkrupp Elevator Manufacturing

1:03-cv-01160 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 27, 2003

Closed Date: Oct. 25, 2007

EEOC's Memphis, Tennessee office filed this racial discrimination lawsuit against the defendant, Thyssenkrupp Elevator Manufacturing, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on 06/27/2003. Thyssenkrupp manufactures, installs and repairs elevators throughout the United States. EEOC alleged on behalf of a class of Black complainants that Thyssenkrupp harassed, wrongfully discharged, failed to promote and failed to hire Black employees or job applicants bec…
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EEOC v. RIVER WAFFLES, LLC

1:05-cv-01225 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2005

Closed Date: Feb. 19, 2009

In August 2005, the Memphis District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against River Waffles, LLC and Collis Foods, Inc. (d/b/a Waffle House Restaurant) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. We do not have a copy of the complaint. However, it appears from the consent decree that the complaint alleged that the defendants violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the "ADA") by terminating the charging party's employment because he had Hepatitis C. Aft…