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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Luevano v. Ezell

1:79-cv-00271 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 1979

Closed Date: Aug. 1, 2025

This is a long-standing case about equal employment in the federal civil service. The case was originally brought in 1979 by nonprofit counsel against the then Director of the Officer of Personnel Management (OPM) as a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The applicants had filed suit, claiming that the Professional and Administrative Career Examination (PACE) violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Plaintiffs alleged that PACE, …

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rodriguez Perez v. First Tech Federal Credit Union

4:23-cv-06704 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2023

On December 29, 2023, a private plaintiff, represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, filed a class action lawsuit against First Technology Federal Credit Union (“FTF”), in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that FTF followed a policy of denying full access to banking products and services to applicants on the basis of their immigration status, including those who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) stat…
POLICING
Melendres v. Arpaio

2:07-cv-02513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2007

This case concerns racial profiling by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (“MCSO”) in Arizona. On December 12, 2007, Latino motorists filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the County of Maricopa, MCSO, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201. They sought to represent a class of Latino persons who have been or will be stopped, detained, interrogated, or searched by the Sheriff or his agents in …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Texas v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-00068 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 1, 2018

On May 1, 2018, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, and West Virginia brought actions for declaratory and injunctive relief against the United States and various federal immigration officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The states, represented by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas, claimed that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program, created by a 2012 executive action by the Obama Administration, violate…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Contreras v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:21-cv-03139 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 10, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This lawsuit was filed on June 10, 2021, by Latino and Latina voters against the state of Illinois, the Illinois State Board of Elections, the State Senate, and the State House of Representatives alleging that the new legislative districts under a redistricting plan adopted in June 2021 resulted in equal protection violations in the form of malapportionment. A similar lawsuit was also brought around the same time by an Illinois State Senator, McConchie v. Illinois State Board of Elections, and …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of El Cenizo v. State of Texas

5:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

This suit challenged Texas's "Sanctuary City" legislation, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which required local Texas law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and punished them if they did not. Unlike the other suits in this special collection, this suit did not challenge President Trump's "Sanctuary City" Executive Order. There were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso County v. Texas, No. 17-cv-004…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Rogelio Esqueda v. Kinecta Federal Credit Union

2:24-cv-03697 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 3, 2024

This is a case alleging loan discrimination against DACA recipients. The plaintiff, represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, filed a putative class action against Kinecta Federal Credit Union on May 3, 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Plaintiff alleged that Kinecta discriminated against him, in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and California anti-discrimination law, by denying him an auto loan because he obtained his social securi…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Lopez v. Noble Credit Union

24CECG00076 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 5, 2024

This is a case about whether a California-based credit union illegally discriminated against loan or credit product applicants on the basis of immigration status. On January 5, 2024, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient residing in California brought a putative class action lawsuit against Noble Credit Union (“Noble”) in the Superior Court of California, County of Fresno. The plaintiff brought her suit under California’s Civil Rights Act (California Civil Code §§ 51, et seq…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Comite De Jornaleros De Rancho Cucamonga Y Upland v. City of Cucamonga & City of Upland

5:02-cv-01010 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2002

Closed Date: Jan. 30, 2004

On September 19, 2002, an organization representing day laborers filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against the City of Cucamonga and the City of Upland. Plaintiffs claimed that the defendants had passed ordinances in 2001 to enforce anti-solicitation at one street corner, located at the cities’ boundary, and that the defendants were violating the First Amendment rights of day laborers by enforcing the ordinances. Plaintiffs were repres…