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Consumer Protection Financial Bureau v. Trident Mortgage Company LP

2:22-cv-02936 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case, brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Attorneys General of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, alleged that Trident Mortgage Company engaged in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by "redlining" in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The parties announced on July 27, 2022, that they reached an agreement for Trident to invest over $20 million to increase credi…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

3:21-cv-08735 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) suing Uber for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Uber charged wait time fees for passengers that needed more than two minutes to get into a car, and the DOJ alleged that Uber violated the ADA by failing to reasonably modify its wait time fee policy for passengers with disabilities. On July 18, 2022, the DOJ announced that the parties had reached a multi-million-doll…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
DOJ Investigation of CVS Pharmacy, Inc.

No Court

(This summary is temporary while we research the investigation) On April 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had reached a settlement agreement with CVS, the country's largest retail pharmacy, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). 
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Escambia County Sheriff's Office

No Court

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2009

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2012

This investigation of the policing practices of the Escambia County Sheriff's Office (ECSO) was opened by the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division on Jan. 9, 2009, and closed on September 4, 2012. There was a simultaneous Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) investigation into the jail operated by the ECSO. That investigation is included in this Clearinghouse here. DOJ closed the policing investigation without findings, but chose to issue a technical assistance letter to…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
U.S. v. City of New York (Kings County Hospital)

1:10-cv-00060 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 2010

Closed Date: Jan. 17, 2017

According to the press release issued by the Justice Department regarding this case, the facts were as follows: On December 7, 2007, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) began an investigation into the care and treatment of mental health patients at Kings County Hospital Center (KCHC)'s Behavioral Health Service (BHS). "The investigation uncovered systemic deficiencies that violated the constitutional and civil rights of patients with psychiatric disabilities. These viol…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Berkeley County Sheriff

2:10-cv-02594 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2010

Case Ongoing

On October 6, 2010, the Prison Legal News filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for South Carolina under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Berkeley County. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, claiming that the defendants' unlawfully censored and excluded the plaintiff's books and magazines protected by the 1st and 14th Amendments, which are sent to individual subscribers in custody at the …
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Albuquerque

1:14-cv-01025 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 12, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the city of Albuquerque in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. The DOJ brought this action under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, alleging that officers of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) were engaging in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and § 14141. Specifically…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United State Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Those staff in turn failed to su…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jarboe v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:12-cv-00572 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2012

Case Ongoing

On February 23, 2012, five Maryland state prisoners who are deaf filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland against the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (MDPSCS) and other state entities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, plaintiffs alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America and the Vulcan Society v. City of New York

1:07-cv-02067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 21, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed a lawsuit on behalf of United States of America against the City of New York under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division. On July 17, 2007, the Vulcan Society--an organization of Black firefighters, and three individuals, filed an Intervenor's Complaint. Plaintiffs sued to enforce the right of Black and Hispanic candidates to be treated fairly in t…