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United States of America v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.

01605 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 1964

Closed Date: March 18, 1968

On December 18, 1964, Black residents of South Carolina filed this class action lawsuit against the corporate entity Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants refused to serve them at their South Carolinian restaurants in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Piggie Park operated six barbecue restaurants. Five of them were drive-in restaurants that served food to customers in their cars and let them drive away to eat elsewhere. The sixth restaurant, Little Jo…
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Sines v. Kessler

3:17-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

In this case, ten private citizens of Charlottesville, Virginia, sued a host of individuals identified as organizers and promoters of the far-right “Unite the Right” rally held in the city on August 11-12, 2017. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on October 11, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs invoked state law and 42 U.S.C. § 1985, a Reconstruction Era federal statute creating a cause of action against those wh…
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NDN Collective v. Retsel Corporation

5:22-cv-05027 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 23, 2022

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This case is about a South Dakota hotel's racially discriminatory policy of barring Native American guests. 
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Seibert v. New York State Department of Tax and Finance

16-cv-151800 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: March 3, 2016

Closed Date: 2016

On March 3, 2016, a group of five women residents of New York State, filed this class action lawsuit in New York State Court against the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. Plaintiffs claimed that the State's "Tampon Tax," which imposed a tax on the purchase of tampons and sanitary pads, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Article One of the New York Constitution, and New York tax law. Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that th…
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United States v. State of North Carolina

1:16-cv-00425 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: May 9, 2016

Closed Date: April 14, 2017

This is one of several federal lawsuits addressing North Carolina Session Law 2016-3, House Bill 2 (HB2), which was passed on March 23, 2016. For the others, see the case collection.On February 22, 2016, the Charlotte City Council passed Ordinance 7056, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in public accommodations, passenger vehicle for hire, and city contractors. The city ordinance was set to take effect on April 1, 2016.In response, on March 2…
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Baker v. Wildflower Inn

11-01837 | Vermont state trial court

Filed Date: 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2012

In 2011, two women denied the opportunity to host their wedding reception at a particular private hotel due to their sexual orientation brought suit against that hotel to obtain a court order that the hotel's no-gay-receptions policy violated state law (Vermont's State Housing and Public Accommodations Act) and to prohibit future discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. The couple was represented by the ACLU, and the Vermont Human Rights Commission intervened on their behalf after d…
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Texas v. United States

7:16-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 25, 2016

Closed Date: March 3, 2017

This lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle, across several cases, over allowing transgender individuals access to public facilities matching their gender identities. With eleven states joining together to challenge the DOJ, DOE, EEOC, and DOL over their interpretations of antidiscrimination statutes, it represents the broadest challenge to date of the Obama administration’s position that transgender individuals should have access to bathrooms, changing rooms, and other public facilities an…
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Carcaño v. McCrory

1:16-cv-00236 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: March 28, 2016

Closed Date: May 24, 2021

This is one of several federal lawsuits addressing North Carolina Session Law 2016-3, House Bill 2 (“H.B. 2”), which was passed in March 23, 2016. For the others, see the related cases section below. On February 22, 2016, the Charlotte City Council passed Ordinance 7056, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in public accommodations, passenger vehicle for hire, and city contractors. The city ordinance was set to take effect on April 1, 2016.In res…
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Sanchez v. Carnival Corporation

1:16-cv-21319 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 12, 2016

Closed Date: 2016

On April 12, 2016, two Cuban-born Americans filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Carnival Corporation and Fathom Travel Corporation. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. §2000.The plaintiffs alleged the defendants did not allow Cuban-born persons to board its cruise line to Cuba. The lawsuit alleges that this policy violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by refusing service based on national origin. The plaintiffs requested a jury…
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U.S. v. James G. Clark, Jr.

64-03438 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 1964

Closed Date: 1969

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. This suit was filed on 9/2/1964. Prior to this suit, Judge Albert Hare of Alabama's state court for Dallas County (where Selma is located), issued an injunction on July 9, 1964 effectively making it unlawful to conduct large public protests or gather to discuss and plan civil rights activism. Specifically, the injunction made the f…