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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. Rizzitelli

3:10-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2010

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2015

On January 15, 2010, an individual plaintiff filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Derby Democratic Town Committee (DDTC) and several individuals. He claimed the defendants conspired to exclude him from fair competition for the Democratic nomination of Mayor of Derby on the basis of his race and alleged violations of the First, Ninth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), and 1986 as well as the § 2 of the Voting Rights Act…
POLICING
Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump

1:20-cv-01469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

Black Lives Matter - D.C. and several individual protestors brought this lawsuit on June 4, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of D.C. in response to President Trump's use of military police to disperse peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square Park on June 1, 2020. Protesters had gathered as part of the nationwide outcry following the police killing of George Floyd. Around 6:30 in the evening, following an order to clear the square from Attorney General Barr, military and federal …
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
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…
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…
POLICING
Winston v. Salt Lake City Police Department

2:12-cv-01134 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2012

Closed Date: April 11, 2016

This is a racial profiling and illegal seizure case about a gang task force of about 16 police officers who raided West High School in the Salt Lake City School District on December 16, 2010 to round up students for detention, interrogation, and inclusion in a gang database. The police officers detained Latinx, Black, and Pacific Islander students regardless of whether they had actual gang membership, and they targeted no white students. On December 13, 2012, the plaintiff, represented by the A…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Zelaya v. Miles

3:19-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Closed Date: March 2, 2023

This is a racial profiling and illegal seizure case about an immigration raid at an East Tennessee meat processing plant conducted by officers from the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”). In April 2018, DHS officers were assisting with an Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) search related to alleged climes of the plant’s owner, but during the search, the DHS  officers seized and arrested approximately 100 Latinx workers without regard to their immigration status, while berating them with raci…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans v. Clean Elections USA

2:22-cv-01823 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about voter intimidation by private parties. The plaintiffs were two non-profit organizations, Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans (AARA) and Voto Latino, that work to protect voting and civil rights. In the weeks leading up to the November 2022 elections, the defendant, an organization called Clean Elections USA, encouraged its members to gather at ballot drop boxes in Arizona to deter voters from casting their ballots. The defendant claimed that these actions were necessary …
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Escobar v. Gaines

3:11-cv-00994 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 26, 2022

This is a case about a large-scale immigration and law enforcement raid on a predominantly Latino apartment complex in Nashville, Tennessee, that occurred on October 20, 2010. The plaintiffs were 15 individuals who were victims of the raid and residents of the apartment complex, the Clairmont. The plaintiffs brought this action nearly one year later on October 19, 2011, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee to remedy violations of their Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Am…
POLICING
United States v. City of Philadelphia

2:79-02937 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 1979

Closed Date: Dec. 29, 1980

The Department of Justice sued the City of Philadelphia for declaratory and injunctive relief on August 13, 1979, alleging a pervasive pattern of police abuse by the Philadelphia Police Department. Similarly, the DOJ claimed that the police department facilitated these illegal practices with their policies and procedures for investigating police misconduct. The DOJ further alleged that the disputed practices had an unlawfully disproportionate impact on Black and Latino persons. This case was th…