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PRISON CONDITIONS
Harper v. Cuomo

9:21-cv-00019 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 2021

Closed Date: June 25, 2021

This is a case about COVID-19 precautions for older and vulnerable prisoners in New York State prisons. Three incarcerated plaintiffs and the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York on January 8, 2021. They sued the governor of New York, the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) and its commissioner and chief medical officer, and the superintendent of the …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Kennedy v. City of Zanesville

2:03-cv-01047 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2003

Closed Date: April 2, 2009

On November 19, 2003, a group of Black residents of the City of Zanesville, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and the Fair Housing Advocates Association filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the city of Zanesville ("City"), Washington Township ("Township"), Washington Township Trustees, and Muskingum County Commissioners ("County"). The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons With Disabilities v. Connecticut

3:06-cv-00179 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 2006

Case Ongoing

On February 6, 2006, the State of Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons With Disabilities (an independent State agency charged with advocating for persons with disabilities), along with several persons with mental disabilities residing in nursing facilities, filed this lawsuit against the State of Connecticut, its Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, its Department of Public Health, and its Department of Social Services in the United States District Court for …
EDUCATION
W. v. Kenosha Unified School District No. 1 Board of Education

2:16-cv-00943 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: July 19, 2016

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff in this case was a 16-year-old rising senior at the George Nelson Temper High School (Temper), which is part of the Kenosha Unified School District No. 1 (KUSD), in Wisconsin. Plaintiff, who was assigned female on his birth certificate but whose gender identity is male, suffers from gender dysphoria, a condition recognized by the American Psychiatric Association. Over the course of several years, despite explanations from the plaintiff and despite receiving several signed letters …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Open Communities Alliance v. Carson

1:17-cv-02192 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

The background to this case concerns a policy known as the Small Area Fair Market Rent (“FMR”) rule that was set to go into effect on January 1, 2018, after years of advocacy, research, and public debate. The rule required the public housing agencies (PHAs) that administered the Housing Choice Voucher program (formerly Section 8) to set voucher values in 24 metropolitan areas based on the prevailing private market rents for each distinct zip code within those regions. The revised methodology re…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. WORTHINGTON, MOORE, & JACOBS

1:04-cv-03127 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2004

Closed Date: July 18, 2011

On September 30, 2004, the EEOC's Baltimore Office filed suit against Worthington, Moore, & Jacobs, a collection agency operating out of Ellicott City, Maryland. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 2000e), alleged that the company president sexually harassed a number of female employees, and that the company retaliated against those who complained. On February 19, 2009, the court (Judge Everett…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
U.S. ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. v. Westchester Co.

1:06-cv-02860 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 12, 2006

Case Ongoing

On April 12, 2006, the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York ("ADC") filed this lawsuit under the False Claims Act against Westchester County in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. In False Claims Act cases, sometimes called "qui tam" actions, the private instigator of the case is called the "relator"; the plaintiff is the United States, and the relator seeks damages because of harm caused to the United States; by statute, those damages go mostly the federal …

False Claims Act Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial

United States of America ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. vs. Westchester Co., New York

April 12, 2006

Opinion and Order

United States of America ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. vs. Westchester Co., New York

July 13, 2007

Defendant's Memorandum in Support of Motion of Summary Judgment

United States of America ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. vs. Westchester Co., New York

Sept. 30, 2008

Plaintiff's Memorandum in Support of Motion For Partial Summary Judgment

United States of America ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. vs. Westchester Co., New York

Oct. 17, 2008

Opinion & Order

United States of America ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. vs. Westchester Co., New York

Feb. 24, 2009

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FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
National Fair Housing Alliance v. Carson

1:18-cv-01076 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 8, 2018

On May 8, 2018, National Fair Housing Alliance, Texas Low Income Housing Information Services, and Texas Appleseed filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs were represented by the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Fair Housing Alliance, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Public Citizen Litigation Group, and private counsel.…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Independent Living Center v. City of Los Angeles

2:12-cv-00551 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 2012

Case Ongoing

On January 13, 2012, three non-profit organizations that advocate for independent living for individuals with disabilities filed this civil rights lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the City of Los Angeles, the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles ("CRA"), and 34 owners of CRA-funded apartment complexes under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council v. City of Maplewood

4:17-cv-00886 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 13, 2017

Closed Date: 2018

On March 13, 2017, the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council ("EHOC") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiff sued the City of Maplewood, Missouri, under the Fair Housing Act ("FHA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601 et seq. and Missouri Human Rights Act ("MHRA"), Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 213.040 et seq. for discriminatory treatment and disparate impact. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, sought a declaratory judgement that the defe…