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Types of Cases
Any employment discrimination, unpaid overtime, missed meal breaks or rest breaks, fair housing, prison litigation, police misconduct or other civil rights case can be a class action if certain requirements are met.
Sample Cases
- Johnson v. District of Columbia - Expected eight figure settlement in pending class action against the District of Columbia and United States Marshals for strip searches of arrestees without reasonable suspicion and not involved in drug or violent activity;
- Wisely v. State of California - Certified class action regarding the policy and practice of the State Department of Corrections to randomly subject visitors to the prisons to intrusive X-ray body scans, and to subject those who “failed” the scan to a visual body search; stipulated injunction entered; appeal on damages dismissal currently in procedural limbo;
- Bynum v. District of Columbia - Pending certified class action against the District of Columbia for overdetentions and strip searches of persons ordered released from custody;
- Williams v. Block - $27 million settlement against L.A. County (largest settlement in County’s history) including a complete revamp of jail procedures in a series of county jail overdetention and strip search class action cases (2002);
- Ofoma v. Biggers - family discrimination class action settled for damages for the individual plaintiffs and the class of residents, a consent decree and an award of attorney’s fees (1996);
- People of the State of California v. Highland Federal Savings and Loan - $3.165 million settlement in class action on behalf of the People of the State of California and a class of tenants residing in slum buildings in Los Angeles for financing practices encouraging and perpetuating slum conditions (1993);
- Mould v. Investments Concept, Inc. - $850,000 settlement for the class and a comprehensive consent decree regarding the defendants’ discriminatory policies and practices in a race discrimination class action on behalf of a class of applicants and potential housing applicants (1992);
- California Federation of Daycare Association v. Mission Insurance Co. - class action on behalf of several thousand family daycare providers whose daycare insurance policies were canceled mid-term or were not renewed by Mission Insurance Company, settled for reinstatement of policies and attorney’s fees (1987).
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