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Isaacson v. Brnovich

2:21-cv-01417 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

Case Ongoing

On April 27, 2021, the Arizona governor signed S.B. 1457 (the "Act"): legislation that limited access to abortions in the state. Two physicians who provided reproductive health care services in Arizona, the Arizona National Organization for Women, the National Council of Jewish Women, Inc., and the Arizona Medical Association (collectively, "the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit on August 17, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona challenging and seeking to enjoin enforcemen…
EDUCATION
Denton v. Board of Governors for the State University System of Florida

4:22-cv-00341 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about educational disparities between historically black colleges and universities compared to traditionally white educational institutions in Florida. On September 22, 2022, six African American plaintiffs, current undergraduates and graduate students of Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University (FAMU), sought class status in a lawsuit on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated against the Board of Governors for the State University System of Florida and against th…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education, Inc. v. Maryland Higher Education Commission

1:06-cv-02773 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2006

Closed Date: June 2, 2021

This is a case about how the Maryland Higher Education Commission, a division of the Maryland Department of Higher Education, must treat historically Black colleges & universities (HBCUs) in relation to typically White institutions (TWIs). On October 23, 2006, a non-profit corporation comprising current and former students and staff at HBCUs, called the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education, Inc., filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryl…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee and United States of America v. Macon County School Board (S.D. Ala. cases)

1:70-cv-05945 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1970

This Clearinghouse entry discusses the post 1970 proceedings in Lee v. Macon County, a seminal Alabama desegregation case. That case originated in the Middle District of Alabama and was transferred to a three-judge district court which supervised school desegregation across the state. However, after 1970, the statewide case was dissolved and desegregation cases in individual school districts were sent to the judicial districts that encompassed them. This Clearinghouse entry describes the Lee li…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee v. Macon County Bd. of Ed.

3:63-cv-00604 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1963

Closed Date: 1970

IntroductionThis case began on 1963 when a group of Black students and parents sought to desegregate the twenty public schools of Macon County, Alabama. At that time seventeen of the county’s schools were designated for Black children and three for white children. This was one of many such cases dealing with school desegregation on a school system-by-system basis. Soon after the case was filed, the court ordered the desegregation of Macon County’s schools. However, after interference from Gover…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee and United States of America v. Macon County School Board (M.D. Ala. cases)

3:70-cv-00846 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1970

This Clearinghouse entry discusses the post 1970 proceedings in Lee v. Macon County, a seminal Alabama desegregation case. That case originated in the Middle District of Alabama and was transferred to a three-judge district court which supervised school desegregation across the state. However, after 1970, the statewide case was dissolved and desegregation cases in individual school districts were sent to the judicial districts that encompassed them. This Clearinghouse entry describes the Lee li…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee and United States of America v. Macon County School Board (N.D. Ala. Case)

2:70-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1970

This Clearinghouse entry discusses the post 1970 proceedings in Lee v. Macon County, a seminal Alabama desegregation case. That case originated in the Middle District of Alabama and was transferred to a three-judge district court which supervised school desegregation across the state. However, after 1970, the statewide case was dissolved and desegregation cases in individual school districts were sent to the judicial districts that encompassed them. This Clearinghouse entry describes the Lee li…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Cruz-Guzman v. Minnesota

15-cv-19117 | Minnesota state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2015

Case Ongoing

On November 5, 2015, seven families and a non-profit organization (One Family One Community) filed this class-action suit on behalf of students enrolled or to be enrolled in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul Public Schools against the State of Minnesota in the Hennepin County District Court. The plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys, alleged that the segregation in the Saint Paul and Minneapolis school districts had produced a "separate and unequal" educational environment in violation of t…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Belton v. Gebhart, Bulah v. Gebhart

Civ. A. Nos. 258 | Delaware state trial court

Filed Date: 1952

Belton v. Gebhart and Bulah v. Gebhart were two desegregation cases that arose in Delaware. At the time of the actions, the Delaware State Constitution provided that all public schools be segregated on the basis of race. Gebhart stemmed from Claymont, a Wilmington suburb where Black students had to make a 20-mile round trip to Howard High School– the only high school in the state that permitted Black students to attend. Howard High School, along with Carver Vocational School, which was also ope…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Brunson v. Board of Trustees of Clarendon County

2:60-cv-07210 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 13, 1960

A group of Black families in South Carolina brought this class-action lawsuit against Clarendon School District No. 1 officials, alleging that the school district racially discriminated against Black students. Defendants included the Board of Trustees of School District No. 1 of Clarendon County, the County Superintendent of Education, the District Superintendent of Education, the chairman of the Board of Trustee, and members of the Board of Trustees. Plaintiffs asserted that defendants were op…