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Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump

1:20-cv-01469 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

Black Lives Matter - D.C. and several individual protestors brought this lawsuit on June 4, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of D.C. in response to President Trump's use of military police to disperse peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square Park on June 1, 2020. Protesters had gathered as part of the nationwide outcry following the police killing of George Floyd. Around 6:30 in the evening, following an order to clear the square from Attorney General Barr, military and federal …
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Gould v. The City of New York

1:24-cv-01263 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about alleged unconstitutional home searches by the New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS). On February 20, 2024, the plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit against New York City in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs alleged that that ACS conducts tens of thousands of warrantless, coercive home searches each year in which they threaten to call the police or take away people's children if they are not allow…
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DOJ Investigation of Minneapolis Police Department

No Docket | No Court

On April 21, 2021, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). According to Garland, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, was to examine whether the City and MPD violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, …
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Sankofa v. Rose

2:21-cv-11468 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 23, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the unlawful traffic stop of two African American residents of Detroit who were racially profiled and subject to an unreasonable search and seizure.  On June 23, 2021, two African American residents of Detroit filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued four employees of the Michigan State Police under 42 USC § 1983. Represented by the ACLU Fund of Michigan, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief as w…
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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…
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Bryant v. Taylor, City of

2:22-cv-12066 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2022

Closed Date: March 11, 2024

This case concerns the constitutionality of the Taylor Police Department (TPD)’s seizure of a disabled person’s dog. On September 1, 2022, a Black individual with a physical disability sued the City of Taylor, two individual TPD officers, and an animal control officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The motivation for this lawsuit arose when the plaintiff’s dog pulled a lead line into his crate and entangled his leg. After the pla…
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Boyd v. City of San Rafael

3:23-cv-04085 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2023

Closed Date: Aug. 7, 2024

Involuntarily unhoused residents of the City of San Rafael, California, filed this lawsuit pro se on August 11, 2023, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, requested a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to stop the City of San Rafael from enforcing ordinances that the plaintiffs alleged criminalized homelessness by making “camping” on public property a criminal offense. The plaintiffs were ten unhoused individuals and Camp Integrity, an…
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Strickland v. City of Detroit

2:18-cv-12640 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2018

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of a racially discriminatory work environment within the Detroit Police Department (“DPD”). On August 23, 2018, a Black DPD officer sued the City of Detroit (“City”), the DPD, the DPD Chief, five DPD officers, and twenty City employees in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Represented by the ACLU of Michigan, the plaintiff sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983, and Michigan state law. The compla…
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Greene v. City of Beverly Hills

2:24-cv-05916 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 15, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit alleging that the Beverly Hills Police Department is engaging in systemic racial profiling and employing unconstitutional policing practices against Black Americans.  On July 15, 2024, three individuals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California seeking to represent a class of Black individuals who were detained or arrested by the Beverly Hills Police Department ("BHPD") without being convicted of any crime. The plaintiffs…
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McArdle v. City of Ocala, FL

5:19-cv-00461 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

Closed Date: 2021

Homeless residents of the City of Ocala, Florida filed this lawsuit against the City of Ocala challenging the constitutionality of its “open lodging” ordinance. On September 19, 2019, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Florida, Southern Legal Counsel, and private counsel, brought this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs alleged the open lodging ordinance violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Co…