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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
E.B. v. Young

85-00011 | Vermont state trial court

Filed Date: 1985

Closed Date: May 3, 1985

Sometime before April 1985, juveniles confined in the Juvenile Detention Unit filed a class action lawsuit in the Washington County Superior Court, State of Vermont, against the director of the Juvenile Detention Unit and the Commissioner of Social and Rehabilitative Services. The class consisted of all juveniles in the custody of the state that were or would be confined in the Juvenile Detention Unit. The plaintiffs sought injunctive relief. Juveniles in Vermont were being placed in the Juveni…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Hargrave v. Vermont

2:99-cv-00128 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: April 27, 1999

Closed Date: 2005

On April 27, 1999, a Vermont resident who had been diagnosed with mental illness filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12111 et seq., against the Vermont Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the Connecticut Legal Rights Project, brought the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, alleging that Vermont's statutes concerning individuals who…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
J.L. v. Miller

418-84 | Vermont state trial court

Filed Date: 1984

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2002

In 1984, individuals with mental illness confined at the Vermont State Hospital (VSH) in Waterbury, Vermont, filed a class action lawsuit in the Superior Court for the State of Vermont for Washington County against Vermont's Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and various VSH officials. The plaintiffs, represented by Vermont Legal Aid, sought equitable relief for alleged violations of their Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that VSH…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Goldsmith v. Dean

2:93-cv-00383 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1993

Closed Date: 1998

On December 13, 1993, the National Prison Project ("NPP") of the American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU") brought an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Vermont Department of Corrections in United States District Court for the District of Vermont alleging violations of First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments rights of persons confined in Vermont prisons. Plaintiffs sought injunctive and declaratory relief.Plaintiffs specifically alleged that the conditions at V…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Department of Corrections v. Human Rights Commission

2004-503 | Vermont state trial court

Filed Date: 2004

Closed Date: 2006

The case involves an appeal to the Supreme Court of Vermont on the issue of whether the Vermont Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act, 9 V.S.A. §§ 4500-4507 [the Act], applies to state correctional facilities, thereby giving the Human Rights Commission [the Commission] jurisdiction to investigate complaints filed by state prisoners alleging violations of the Act.In November 2003, the Commission served a subpoena on the Department of Corrections [DOC] in connection with a discrimination cha…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. FOODSCIENCE CORPORATION

2:00-cv-00322 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2000

Closed Date: May 31, 2003

The EEOC's New York and Boston district offices sued FoodScience Corporation, a national nutrition supplement manufacturer and distributor, on September 13, 2000 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. The EEOC's complaint is unavailable, however, the consent decree summarizes the EEOC's causes of action. The EEOC alleged that FoodScience violated Title VII and the Equal Pay Act when it discriminated based on sex (female) by paying some of its female employees lower wages than…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Vermont

2:06-cv-00143 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: July 21, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

On July 5, 2005, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division ("DOJ") sent its "findings letter" to Vermont's governor, advising him of the results of the late summer 2004, DOJ investigation of conditions and practices at the Vermont State Hospital ("VSH"), a facility housing mentally ill persons. The investigation occurred under the authority of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. DOJ and expert consultants visited the facility, reviewed a…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Walsh v. Franco

2:86-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: 1986

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) The plaintiff in this case was arrested for failure to pay parking tickets, a charge which was later aqcuited. However, during his arrest, the plaintiff was handcuffed and strip searched. Plaintiff brought this suit, alleging that a strip search under those circumstances violates the Fourth Amendment. This case is closed.
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Shoreham Cooperative Apple Producers v. Donovan

2:83-cv-00326 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Sept. 7, 1983

Closed Date: June 13, 1985

In 1984, a coalition of apple growers filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, challenging a regulation, 20 C.F.R. § 655.207(b) (1984), adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor for the determination of annual wage rate increases for temporary foreign workers under the "H-2 Program." Under the "H-2 Program," aliens were granted temporary visas to work in the United States. Workers were certified under the program upon an employer's agreement to pay both foreign and dome…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bock v. Gold

1:05-cv-00151 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: June 7, 2005

Closed Date: 2008

On June 7, 2005, Plaintiff, a Jewish former prisoner, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act against five employees of the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) in their official and individual capacities. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for damages and injunctive relief, alleging that the employees of the DOC denied or limited his abilit…