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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Williams v. Wallace

2:65-cv-02181 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: March 8, 1965

Closed Date: 1965

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. Despite the Civil Rights Act and the Department of Justice's myriad lawsuits against Alabama state officials for voter discrimination, racial discrimination among Alabama's voters persisted. Tensions in Selma thus also persisted throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. Ultimately, an injunction issued in this case would enable the Selm…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
United States v. Wilkins

65-cr-11736 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 6, 1965

Closed Date: 1967

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. Thousands of demonstrators walked from Selma to Montgomery in March 1965 protesting racial discrimination in Alabama and the persistent deprivation of the Alabama black population's right to vote. This historic march was made possible by an injunction from a federal court prohibiting state officials from interfering and compelling …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
United States v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania

2:22-cv-00709 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2022

Case Ongoing

The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice brought this suit on February 24, 2022 against Pennsylvania's judicial system in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. DOJ alleged violations of the ADA by discriminating against individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) in its court supervision programs. According to the DOJ, the Pennsylvania judicial system prohibited or limited the use of OUD medication by individuals in “treatment court” programs…
CHILD WELFARE
Eknes-Tucker v. Ivey

2:22-cv-00184 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on April 19, 2022 on behalf of a four transgender children and their parents, two medical professionals, and a Reverend in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Plaintiffs challenged Alabama's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which was set to take effect on May 8. The plaintiffs—represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and pr…
POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
United States v. Springfield Police Department

3:22-cv-30043 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 13, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) After four years of investigation, on April 13, 2022 the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division (DOJ), entered into a consent decree with the police department of the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. DOJ had begun their investigation of the Springfield Police Department's (SPD) Narcotic's Bureau, a small plainclothes unit known for violence against civilians, on April 13, 2022. On July 8, 2020, the DOJ published the findings…
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. New Jersey (DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women)

2:21-cv-15031 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

On August 10, 2021, the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division announced that it had reached a settlement with the New Jersey Department of Corrections regarding conditions at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. At the same time, it filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, requesting that the court approve and enforce the purposed consent decree. DOJ had opened a Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) investigation into the faci…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Chicago Police Department

No Court

Filed Date: 2015

Closed Date: 2017

In the aftermath of the November 2015 release of a police video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, sixteen times first as he walked away and later as he lay in the middle of the road, citizens called for a federal investigation into the Chicago Police Department (CPD). On December 7, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening an investigation into CPD under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
DOJ v. Amtrak

1:20-cv-03503 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

On December 2, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint against the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak”) for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12165, by failing to make its intercity rail stations accessible to individuals with disabilities by July 26, 2020, as required by the Act. The government sought to enjoin Amtrak from discriminating on the basis of disability and require the company to comply with the ADA. The …
POLICING
United States of America v. County of Los Angeles

2:15-cv-03174 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 28, 2015

Case Ongoing

The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division initiated a civil investigation of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department on August 19, 2011. The investigation focused on allegations of unconstitutional conduct by deputies at two stations located in the Antelope Valley cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, California. The DOJ proceeded under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,42 U.S.C. § 14141 (Section 14141), and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,42 U.S.C. § 2000d…

Justice Department Opens Investigation into the Antelope Valley Stations of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

[Antelope Valley Stations - Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department]

No Court

Aug. 19, 2011

Statement of Intent

DOJ Investigation of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Stations in Antelope Valley

No Court

June 27, 2013

Re: Investigation of Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Stations in Antelope Valley

DOJ Investigation of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Stations in Antelope Valley

No Court

June 28, 2013

Resumen de la Carta de Hallazgos del Valle de Antelope [Findings Letter (Spanish)]

DOJ Investigation of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Stations in Antelope Valley

No Court

Nov. 19, 2013

Justice Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Agree to Policing Reforms and Settlement of Police-Related Fair Housing Claims in the Antelope Valley

[Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department]

No Court

April 28, 2015

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POLICING
United States v. Johnson

1:12-cv-01349 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

On December 20, 2012, following a two-year investigation, the United States of America filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The US sued the Sheriff of Alamance County, North Carolina. The US, represented by the Department of Justice, brought the action under 42 U.S.C. § 14141 and asked the court for declaratory judgment that the Alamance County Sheriff's Office had engaged in conduct infringing rights protected by the United States Co…