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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Liddell v. Board of Education for the City of St. Louis

4:72-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 1972

Case Ongoing

Background On February 18, 1972, five African-American parents and their minor children filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They sued the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis and a number of its officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, claiming that the defendants operated city schools in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the plai…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
United States v. Plaquemines Parish School Board

2:66-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

Closed Date: April 30, 2025

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) The United States brought this school desegregation case in 1966 against the Plaquemines Parish School Board. It was assigned to District Judge Christenberry.  In August 1966, the court entered a preliminary injunction barring the defendants from discriminating on the basis of race or color.  After substantial litigation, the plaintiffs won the action in 1971. In 1975, the district court concluded that "the relief provided in the court's …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Virginia State Conference NAACP v. County School Board of Shenandoah County

5:24-cv-00040 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 11, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the change in school names that evoke discriminatory messages of Black inferiority and subjugation. In Shenandoah County of Virginia, there are two schools named “Stonewall Jackson High School” and “Ashby Lee Elementary School” in honor of two Confederate military heroes. These schools were renamed to reflect racial inclusivity in 2021. However, in 2024, the Shenandoah County School Board restored their original names. On June 11, 2024, the Virginia State Conference NAACP a…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Silver v. Halifax County Board of Commissioners

15CVS767 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2015

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case). Following five years of research and general legal support to community-based education advocacy groups, in August 2015, the Center (with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and the national law firm Latham & Watkins) filed suit on behalf of two community organizations and three parents against the Halifax County Board of Commissioners. The lawsuit seeks to vindicate right of all Halifax County’s schoolchildren under the North Carolina…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Jones v. Caddo Parish School Board

5:65-cv-11055 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 4, 1965

Case Ongoing

This school desegregation case from Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was filed in 1965 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, with Judge Ben Dawkins presiding. As of 2020, it is still ongoing. On May 4, 1965, the parents of seven African American school children brought this putative class-action suit on their behalf against the defendants, Caddo Parish School Board, to enjoin the operation of a racially segregated school district. Shortly thereafter, the United States was al…
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 (SUS), the cha…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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…
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 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
Cruz-Guzman v. Minnesota

27-CV-15-19117 | 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…