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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 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…
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…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Cowan and US v. Bolivar County Board of Education

4:65-cv-00031 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 25, 1965

Case Ongoing

On July 25, 1965, students of the Bolivar County Board of Education filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi under Title IV and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The lawsuit was against the Bolivar County Board of Education; plaintiffs sought preliminary and permanent injunctions to end the compulsory biracial school system. Various plans were submitted until, on July 22, 1969, Judge Keady entered an Order requiring that the dual system be d…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education

3:65-cv-01974 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 1965

Closed Date: April 15, 2002

This summary seeks to describe how the Swann litigation influenced the desegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS). For a more thorough analysis of this litigation and policy challenge through the present day, see Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte (Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, et al. eds. 2015). For a complete discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Swann, see Bernard Schwartz, Swann's Way: The School Busing Case and the Supreme Court …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States v. Lincoln Parish School Board

3:66-cv-12071 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 8, 1966

Case Ongoing

On June 8, 1966, the United States Department of Justice filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The Department of Justice sued to enjoin the operation of a dual school system in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This lengthy case involves a number of appeals and consolidations with other school desegregation cases proceeding in parallel in the Western District of Louisiana. Obtaining a Consent DecreeOn July 28, 1966, the defendants’ counsel admitted that Linc…