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POLICING
Allen v. City of Oakland

3:00-cv-04599 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2000

On December 17, 2000, several citizens filed this §1983 class action lawsuit against the City of Oakland and its police department in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging a group of rogue police officers within the OPD known as "the Riders" violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights by kidnapping, beating, and planting drugs on the plaintiff. The plaintiffs sought damages and attorneys’ fees.  On March 26, 2001, District Judge Charles A. Legge ordered th…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Santillan v. Mukasey

3:04-cv-02686 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 6, 2004

Closed Date: July 21, 2010

On July 6, 2004, individuals who had been granted the status of lawful permanent resident by the Department of Justice's Executive Office of Immigration Review filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the United States Attorney General, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and its Director, and the San Francisco District Director under 5 U.S.C. § 551…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Reyes v. Alcantar

4:07-cv-02271 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 26, 2007

Closed Date: 2008

On April 26, 2007, the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU Immigration Rights Project, and other public interest groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California representing a seven-year-old United States citizen, who was detained for ten hours by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement Agency (ICE) officials. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff was unlawfully detained following an ICE raid of his (alien) father's apartment. Even though the au…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Wynne v. McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaraunts Inc.

4:06-cv-03153 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 11, 2006

Closed Date: 2013

On May 11, 2006, African-American employees of a restaurant in Berkeley, California filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act against McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants ("M&S"). The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive and declaratory relief, and damages, alleging that McCormick & Schmick'…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Sanders v. HUD

2:88-cv-01261 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 3, 1988

Closed Date: Jan. 28, 2005

In 1988, public housing residents and applicants filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Allegheny County, the Allegheny County Housing Authority (ACHA), and the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County (“RAAC”).  The plaintiffs were represented by attorneys from the Neighborhood Legal Services Association of Pittsburgh and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Und…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Kincaid v. City of Fresno

1:06-cv-01445 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2006

Closed Date: 2013

Starting in 2005 and continuing for more than a year, the City of Fresno, CA had a policy of immediately seizing and destroying on the spot the personal possessions of homeless individuals during sweeps conducted by the City of Fresno Police Department and City of Fresno Sanitation Department. The City used large compactors to immediately crush the seized possessions. These sweeps were all conducted without warrants and were intended to remove homeless persons, their encampments, and their prop…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Allen v. Edwards

17-665079 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2017

On February 6, 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and several private firms filed this class action in the 19th Judicial District Court of East Baton Rouge Parish. The suit had thirteen named plaintiffs and the class was comprised of all indigent adults in Louisiana charged with non-capital crimes that were punishable by imprisonment. The suit alleged that Governor John Bel Edwards, the Louisiana Public Defender Board, and the state’s chief…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Gonzalez v. Pritzker

1:10-cv-03105 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 13, 2010

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2016

On April 13, 2010, rejected U.S. Census Bureau job applicants filed an employment discrimination class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by a coalition of public interest attorney organizations and private counsel, alleged that Census hiring procedures, which pre-screened all applicants with arrest records, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The Census screened out applicants whose names turn up in an FBI database, indi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gonzalez v. State of Arizona

2:06-cv-01268 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 9, 2006

On May 9, 2006, a group of Latino voters filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against the state of Arizona. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, MALDEF, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the ACLU Voting Rights Project, brought suit under the Voting Rights Act, the NVRA, the Civil Rights Act of 1957/1960, 42 U.S. §1983, and state law and asked for declaratory and injunctive relief. Plaintiffs alleged that they were denied the right…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota Education Fund v. Detzner

8:12-cv-01294 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 8, 2012

Closed Date: 2013

On June 8, 2012, two naturalized U.S. citizens and a national non-profit dedicated to increasing civic participation among Latinos filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1973c and 28 U.S.C. § 2201 against the State of Florida in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, the ACLU of Florida, the ACLU, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that Flori…