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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Seaman v. The Commonwealth of Virginia

3:22-cv-00006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2022

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2022

This suit was filed in the Charlottesville Division of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia on February 1, 2022. The plaintiffs, a group of parents representing their children, brought this action against the Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor Glenn Youngkin, the Virginia attorney general, the Virginia superintendent of public instruction, and the acting Virginia health commissioner. They argued that Governor Youngkin's signing of Executive Order 2, which prevented state…
POLICING
Overbey v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore

1:17-cv-01793 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: June 29, 2017

Closed Date: July 19, 2021

On June 29, 2017, the Baltimore Brew (a media organization) and an individual who had previously settled a suit against the Baltimore Police filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. They sued the City of Baltimore and its police under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. Represented by the ACLU of Maryland and private counsel, the plaintiffs sought an injunction, declaratory relief, and damages, claiming that the City’s use of gag orders in police brutality settlem…
POLICING
Collins v. City of Milwaukee

2:17-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, ACLU national and the ACLU of Wisconsin, along with Covington & Burling attorneys, filed this class action alleging that the Milwaukee Police Department's (MPD) stop-and-frisk policies were unconstitutional. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on February 22, 2017. The complaint alleged under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that Milwaukee's stop-and-frisk policies violated the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure protections as well as the Fourteent…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. Rizzitelli

3:10-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2010

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2015

On January 15, 2010, an individual plaintiff filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Derby Democratic Town Committee (DDTC) and several individuals. He claimed the defendants conspired to exclude him from fair competition for the Democratic nomination of Mayor of Derby on the basis of his race and alleged violations of the First, Ninth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), and 1986 as well as the § 2 of the Voting Rights Act…
POLICING
Pitney v. City of Chester

2:19-cv-00799 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2019

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff in this case was strip-searched after being arrested for a minor offense. He was not suspected of possessing drugs or weapons, and he was ultimately not charged with any crime, but the City of Chester's policy allowed police to conduct strip searches on anyone they arrested. In this lawsuit, filed by private counsel on February 25, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the plaintiff named the City of Chester and three police officers as defenda…
POLICING
Clark v. City of New York

1:18-cv-02334 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

On March 16, 2018, the nonprofit Turning Point for Women and Families and individuals who were forced to remove their religious head coverings for post-arrest photographs while in the custody of the New York Police Department filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the City of New York under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), § 1983 for violations of plaintiffs’ right to freely exercise…
LABOR RIGHTS
Arias v. Angelo Dairy

CV028612 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2011

This case was brought on February 15, 2006, by an employee against employer Angelo Dairy in the Superior Court of San Joaquin County. The complaint alleged labor law violations under California's Unfair Competition Law (UCL) and the Labor Code Private Attorney General Act (PAGA). The employee, represented by California Rural Legal Assistance and Legal Aid at Work, claimed that he was not compensated for overtime wages, that he received no meal periods or rest breaks, and that the housing provid…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Keith v. Century Housing Corp.

2:72-cv-00355 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 1972

Closed Date: May 18, 2018

This action was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on February 16, 1972, to try to stop the construction of the Century Freeway, also known as I-105, in Los Angeles. Private homeowners who were set to be displaced by the construction and several advocacy organizations, including the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the NAACP, sued various state and federal agencies and officials and alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Ac…

Memorandum and Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

Keith v. Volpe

July 7, 1972

Opinion

Keith v. California Highway Commission v. Brinegar

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Sept. 27, 1975

Memorandum and Order Granting Plaintiffs' Counsel Reasonable Attorney's Fees and Reimbursement for Certain Costs and Expenses

Keith v. Volpe

March 31, 1980

Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction

Keith v. Volpe

Oct. 2, 1996

Corrected Memorandum and Order Granting Defendant Century Housing Corporation's Motion for Modification of Exhibits B and C of the Amended Consent Decree and Denying Plaintiffs' Motion for Modification of Exhibits B and C and the Addition of Exhibit D to the Amended Consent Decree

Keith v. Volpe

April 10, 1997

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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Reynoldson v. City of Seattle

2:15-cv-01608 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

On October 8, 2015, Plaintiffs, a group of individuals with mobility disabilities filed this lawsuit, on behalf of themselves and a class, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Represented by Disability Rights Washington, Plaintiffs alleged that the City of Seattle unlawfully discriminated against those with mobility disabilities by failing to comply with state and federal regulations addressing accessibility for people with disabilities in its construction, and mai…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Sines v. Kessler

3:17-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

In this case, ten private citizens of Charlottesville, Virginia, sued a host of individuals identified as organizers and promoters of the far-right “Unite the Right” rally held in the city on August 11-12, 2017. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on October 11, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs invoked state law and 42 U.S.C. § 1985, a Reconstruction Era federal statute creating a cause of action against those wh…