Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citations

Citation 1

Citation 2

Citation 3

Search for:
324 cases, 2763 documents
Ordered by
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Reed v. Pitts Farms Partnership

4:21-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

On September 8, 2021, six Black American farm workers sued their employer, Pitts Farms Partnership in the US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Plaintiffs were represented by the Mississippi Center for Justice and Southern Migrant Legal Services. Pitts Farms hired white South African workers through a visa program sponsored by the U.S. federal government allowing foreign agricultural workers to be employed in the United States, so long as the employer treated foreign and d…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
NDN Collective v. Retsel Corporation

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

Filed Date: March 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a hotel and bar that plaintiffs alleged refused to serve Native Americans, committing intentional race discrimination.  On March 23, 2022, an individual who is Native American and NDN Collective, a non-profit that educates, funds, and organizes people "engaged in Native American issues," filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. Their case sought class action status for a class of all Native Americans who have or will visit the Grand Ga…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Flores v. The National Football League

1:22-cv-00871 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case alleges NFL race discrimination in hiring of coaching staff. On February 1, 2022, former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores--who had been fired by the Dolphins and then rejected from other coaching jobs--sued the NFL and its 32 teams in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Flores, who is Black, put forth evidence that he was interviewed for coaching roles only to satisfy NFL rules, not because he was under serious consideration. Represented by private emp…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bryant v. Aiken Regional Med

1:00-cv-01224 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 20, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2004

In 2000, an African-American former hospital employee brought a suit against Aiken Regional Medical Centers in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The case was assigned to District Judge Cameron M. Currie. Although the Plaintiff initially seemed to file the case as a class action lawsuit, there is no reference to this on the docket. We do not have access to many of the documents, and so we do not have more information on how this issue was resolved. Plaintiff alleged tha…
POLICING
Davis v. City of New York

1:10-cv-00699 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2010

Case Ongoing

This is one of four ongoing cases challenging the constitutionality of the New York Police Department's "Stop and Frisk" program. See: Floyd v. City of New York (PN-NY-0009); Daniels v. City of New York (PN-NY-0010); and Ligon v. City of New York (PN-NY-0014). On January 28, 2010, the plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the City of New York and the New York City Housing Authority. The plaintiffs included Black and L…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Kennedy v. City of Zanesville

2:03-cv-01047 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2003

Closed Date: April 2, 2009

On November 19, 2003, a group of Black residents of the City of Zanesville, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and the Fair Housing Advocates Association filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the city of Zanesville ("City"), Washington Township ("Township"), Washington Township Trustees, and Muskingum County Commissioners ("County"). The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …
EDUCATION
Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board

1:21-cv-00296 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: March 3, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a new admissions policy of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) that would negatively affect admissions for Asian American students. On March 3, 2021, an organization of primarily Asian American parents named the Coalition for TJ advocating against the new admissions policy filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff sued the Fairfax County School Board (“the School Board”) under 42 U.S.C. §§ …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Achari v. Signal International, LLC

2:13-cv-06218 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: March 21, 2013

Closed Date: May 26, 2017

This is the third case filed in the Signal International cases. On May 21, 2013, 33 Indian guestworkers filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, for harm suffered as a result of an allegedly fraudulent and coercive employment recruitment scheme. The case was filed after District Judge Jay Zainey denied class certification on Jan. 3, 2012 in the related case David v. Signal International. Plaintiffs were represented by private law firms. Plaintiffs …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
CODING IN PROCESS
In re National Football League Players’ Concussion Injury Litigation

2:12-md-02323 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2012

Case Ongoing

This is case about health safety and racial discrimination involving the National Football League (NFL) and its players. This federal multidistrict litigation arose from four parallel actions: one in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and three in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California. These cases were consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The initial plaintiffs were former NFL players. However, the…
POLICING
Detroit Will Breathe v. Detroit

2:20-cv-12363 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on August 31, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs included Detroit Will Breathe (DWB) and fourteen individuals. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild, sued the city of Detroit, Mayor Michael Duggan, Police Chief James Craig, and over one hundred Detroit Police Department (DPD) officers. Between May 29, 2020 and August 22, 2020, the plaintiffs participated in protests across D…