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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Paine v. IKEA Holding US, Inc.

2:19-cv-00723 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2025

This case concerns allegations of age discrimination against employees of IKEA. On February 21, 2019, the Plaintiff, a 48 year old long term employee of IKEA, filed this lawsuit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of himself and “all those current and former employees of IKEA in the United States who, since January 24, 2018, were age 40 or over and denied promotion.” The Plaintiff sued IKEA under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA),  29 U.S.C §621. Specifically, Plaint…

Settled: Case Closed

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bois v. Levi Strauss & Co.

3:23-cv-02772 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 5, 2023

Closed Date: Aug. 7, 2025

This is a case challenging the continued passing over of the plaintiff for promotion due to allegedly discriminatory reasons. On June 5, 2023, a former employee of Levi Strauss & Co. filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The Plaintiff sued Levi Strauss & Co. sex discrimination under Title VII. She sued Levi Strauss & Co. under age discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). She sued Levi Strauss & Co. and her t…

Judgment for Defendant

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Association of American Universities v. National Science Foundation

1:25-cv-11231 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 5, 2025

This case raises a challenge to cuts in government funding for university research. On May 5, 2025, 13 public and private universities and three associations of universities sued the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its acting director in the District of Massachusetts, challenging cuts to "indirect cost rates" for NSF-funded research grant formulas. While direct costs are those directly attributable to a specific project, indirect costs are costs necessary for research but are not directly…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Dismissed

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
American Association of University Professors - Harvard Faculty Chapter v. U.S. Department Of Justice

1:25-cv-10910 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 11, 2025

This case challenged the Trump administration’s 2025 suspension and termination of federal funding to Harvard University in response to alleged antisemitism on campus. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.)  On April 11, 2025, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), its Harvard Faculty Chapter (AAUP–Harvard), and the United Auto Workers (UAW) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Di…

Judgment for Plaintiff

CHILD WELFARE
Wyatt B. v. Brown

6:19-cv-00556 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 16, 2019

On April 16, 2019, ten children in the custody of the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Oregon, the Director of the Oregon Department of Child Welfare, and ODHS, along with its director, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (42 U.S.C. § 12131(2)), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 USC § 794), the Adoption Assistance Pro…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Kaimowitz v. Supervisor of Elections

1:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 15, 2016

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2018

This is a case about Florida’s judicial election system and whether excluding unopposed judicial candidates from ballots violates voting rights. On July 15, 2016, the plaintiff, a disbarred attorney proceeding pro se, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Gainesville Division. The plaintiff sued the Supervisor of Elections for Alachua County, John Harkness (Florida Bar executive director), Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association, Inc. (“EJC…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Day v. District of Columbia

1:10-cv-02250 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2010

The plaintiffs, institutionalized individuals in the District of Columbia with disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 23, 2010. The complaint alleged that the District of Columbia had policies and procedures that force the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities who could live in the community with appropriate services. The plaintiffs claimed that these policies, which erected barriers to receiving long-term care…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Equality State Policy Center v. Wyoming Secretary of State

1:25-cv-00117 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: May 9, 2025

Closed Date: July 22, 2025

This case challenged a Wyoming state law, HB 156, that imposed new documentary proof of citizenship requirements that allegedly made it harder for eligible citizens to vote. A similar law passed by Kansas in 2011 saw roughly 1 in 8 people excluded from voter registration, despite nearly all of them being citizens; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit struck down that law as unconstitutional.  Represented by Elias Law, plaintiff, a coalition of Wyoming policy organizations, filed this…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Paher v. Cegavske

3:20-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

Closed Date: July 31, 2020

This case challenged the Nevada Secretary of State's and County Administrators' plan to conduct an all-mail election for the 2020 primary election in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Three individual residents of Nevada filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada on April 21, 2020.  Plaintiffs sued Nevada's Secretary of State and Washoe County's Registrar of Voters under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constituti…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stringer v. Cascos

5:16-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2021

On March 14, 2016, four individual plaintiffs filed a suit against the Texas Secretary of State and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (“DPS”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged systemic and ongoing violations of the “motor voter” provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”). The plaintiffs also alleged that the defendants’ conduct violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment due to alleged dispa…