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Cook v. McKee

1:18-cv-00645 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2022

On November 28, 2018, fourteen public school students filed this putative class action lawsuit against the State of Rhode Island and its state officials in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.  Represented by Michael Rebel, the executive director of the Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, as well as the the Rhode Island Center for Justice and a private law firm, the students alleged that the State had deprived them of their rights under t…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Mt. Holly Gardens Citizens in Action v. Township of Mount Holly

1:08-cv-02584 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 5, 2008

Case Ongoing

On May 5, 2008, an association of residents of a New Jersey neighborhood filled a lawsuit under the Fair Housing Act and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The residents, represented by lawyers from South Jersey Legal Services, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claiming that the defendants' redevelopment plan for the Gardens neighborhood represented a violation of the Fair Housing Act and of the Equal Protection Clauses of…
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, …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Mobley v. Facebook (Onuoha v. Facebook)

5:16-cv-06440 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2016

Case Ongoing

Onuoha v. Facebook (also known as Mobley v. Facebook) was filed on behalf of people of color challenging race and national origin discrimination in employment, housing, and credit ads on Facebook. A ProPublica article highlighted Facebook’s tools which allowed advertisers to exclude specific groups called “ethnic affinities.” In response, three individuals who used Facebook to search for housing and/or employment filed a class action complaint the U.S. District Court for the Northern District o…
PUBLIC HOUSING
United States v. NYC Housing Authority, Davis v. NYC Housing Authority

1:90-cv-00628 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 1990

Closed Date: Dec. 24, 2002

These are two cases about housing segregation in New York City.On January 31, 1990, two black and Hispanic individuals residing in or eligible for New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing ("the Davis plaintiffs") filed a class action lawsuit against the NYCHA under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (FHA), Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981-83. Represented by the Legal Aid Society, the Davis plaintiffs alleged that, since 1983, the Housing Authority discriminat…
PUBLIC HOUSING
NAACP, Boston Chapter v. Boston Housing Authority

1:88-cv-01155 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: June 14, 1988

This is a case about racially segregated public housing in Boston. On June 14, 1988, the Boston chapter of the NAACP filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiff sued the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), the mayor of Boston, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Development, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981-1983, 3604, 3608; and …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Mhany Management Inc. v. County Of Nassau

2:05-cv-02301 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 12, 2005

Case Ongoing

On May 12, 2005, individual New York residents and the New York ACORN local chapter filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued Nassau County and the Village of Garden City under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Fair Housing Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, citing violations of these acts as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The plaintiffs asked the court to enjoin the defendants from procee…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Inclusive Communities Project v. Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

3:08-cv-00546 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 28, 2008

Closed Date: 2018

On March 28, 2008, the Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. (ICP) - a Texas non-profit that helps integrate low-income black families into Dallas's predominately white suburban neighborhoods - filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1982 and 1983, and the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3604 and 3605. In its complaint, ICP, represented by private counsel, sought …
PUBLIC HOUSING
King v. City of Blakely / U.S. v. City of Blakely Housing Authority

1:00-cv-00109 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 26, 2000

Closed Date: 2009

On June 26th, 2000, several housing tenants filed a lawsuit, known as King v. Blakely, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Plaintiffs sued the Blakely Housing Authority (“BHA”) under the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. §3601), Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs, represented by a combination of public interest and private attorneys, sought declaratory and injunctive relief requiring the Blakely Housing Authority t…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
JAT Inc. v. Nat'l City Bank of the Midwest

2:06-cv-11937 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 25, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 19, 2008

Plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit against the Defendant-lender on April 25, 2006, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, alleging that the Defendant-bank had an unwritten policy of not lending in predominantly minority areas of Detroit. Plaintiffs' suit included claims under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 15 U.S.C. 1691, and federal civil rights statutes, 42 U.S.C. 1981, 1982. On October 27, 2006, the Court (Judge …