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EDUCATION
Wadley v. University of Iowa

4:20-cv-00366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2020

Closed Date: March 30, 2023

This is a case about racial discrimination and race-based threats on the University of Iowa football team. On November 12, 2020, a group of thirteen Black former and current Iowa football players filed this lawsuit in the Iowa District Court for the State of Iowa, Polk County (a state trial court). However, shortly after, on December 1, 2020, the defendants successfully removed the case to a federal court, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division. The…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Strader v. CVS Health Corporation

4:23-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2023

Case Ongoing

On January 11, 2023, a nurse practitioner who claimed a religious opposition to abortion filed a lawsuit against CVS Health Corporation, CVS Health Solutions, LLC, Minuteclinic, LLC, and Minuteclinic Diagnostic of Texas, LLC in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas over alleged religious-based employment discrimination. Represented by non-profit legal organization (First Liberty Institute) and private counsel, the complaint alleged that CVS violated Title VII of the Civil R…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Mobley v. Workday, Inc.

3:23-cv-00770 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2023

Case Ongoing

On February 21, 2023, the named plaintiff, an African American man over the age of 40 who had a disability, filed this lawsuit in the Northern District of California, Oakland Division, individually and on behalf of a class.  The plaintiff sued human and financial management software vendor Workday, Inc (“Workday”) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (42 U.S.C. § 1981), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
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…
EDUCATION
Manassa v. NCAA

1:20-cv-03172 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit was filed on December 10, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, on behalf of Black student-athletes at HBCUs. The plaintiffs alleged that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) engaged in discriminatory practices through the use of its Academic Performance Program in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981, 42 U.S.C. § 1985, and the District of Columbia Human Rights Act. Represented by private counsel counsel, the plaintiffs sought i…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia

59-04138 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: 1959

Closed Date: 1967

In this landmark civil rights case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state statutes banning interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In June 1958, two Virginia residents, Mildred Jeter, a Black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, married in Washington, D.C., pursuant to its laws. In October 1958, upon returning to Virginia, a grand jury issued an indictment charging the Lovings with violating Virginia a…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Sanders v. District of Columbia

1:22-cv-02259 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

On August 1, 2022, four Black female firefighters filed suit against the District of Columbia, alleging that D.C. Fire and EMS (DC FEMS) discriminated against them on the basis of race and gender. Plaintiffs alleged discriminatory pay, disciplinary, and overtime assignment practices in violation of Title VII, and sought injunctive and declaratory relief, as well as back, lost wages, and compensatory damages. Despite obtaining paramedic certifications that entitle DC FEMS to 15% premium to their…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nunez and United States v. City of New York

1:11-cv-05845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

Case Ongoing

On August 18, 2011, a class of incarcerated people filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment against the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC). The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and damages, claiming that DOC officers routinely inflicted wanton physical violence on prisoners and deliberately falsified re…
POLICING
Dundon v. Kirchmeier

1:16-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a putative class action about excessive police force used to disperse protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). On November 20, 2016, the plaintiffs– Native Americans and other concerned citizens who referred to themselves as "water protectors"--gathered to pray and protest the DAPL at Backwater Bridge in North Dakota. They were met by local police forces who were armed with specialty impact munitions, teargas, and water cannons. Without warning, the police began to use force to …
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Dirar v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.

2:22-cv-01076 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2022

Case Ongoing

Two Black Muslim men were removed from an Alaska Airlines flight after a fellow passenger raised complaints about one of the men, who had been  texting in Arabic. Represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the plaintiffs filed this case on August 2, 2022. The plaintiffs filed suit against Alaska Airlines in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs alleged that Alaska Airlines discriminated against them in violation of 42 U.S.C…