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Grimes v. Conectiv

2:05-cv-03389 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 1, 2005

Closed Date: 2012

On July 1, 2005, several employees who worked at ConectIv and three sub-contractors filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs sued ConectIv, Dellovade, Steel Suppliers and Bogan/Hake, collectively known as the Defendant Employers, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Plaintiffs represented by private attorneys sought monetary damages and injunctive relief to redress their raci…
POLICING
Wilkins v. City of Chicago

1:23-cv-04072 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 26, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) alleged pattern and practice of race-based and discriminatory police practices in traffic stops conducted since 2016. On June 26, 2023, five plaintiffs who had been repeatedly stopped by CPD officers, on what they claimed was limited suspicion, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs alleged unlawful race and national origin discrimination in violation of …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Black Love Resists in the Rust v. City of Buffalo

1:18-cv-00719 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: June 28, 2018

Case Ongoing

On June 28, 2018, Black Love Resists in the Rust and four individual plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the City of Buffalo under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of their rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment, and under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, and the Wester…
POLICING
Plaintiffs #1-21 v. The County of Suffolk

2:15-cv-02431 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 29, 2015

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Suffolk County Police Department’s failure to investigate and eliminate discriminatory patterns and practices such as targeting Latinos for traffic and pedestrian stops, stealing their personal property, and engaging in harassing behavior. On April 29, 2015, the plaintiffs, 20 Latino residents of Suffolk County, New York, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the County of Suffolk, the Suffol…
EDUCATION
Valeria v. Davis

3:98-cv-02252 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 3, 1998

Closed Date: Feb. 25, 2003

This lawsuit challenged California's Proposition 227, approved by voters in 1998, which concerned how students with limited English proficiency (LEP) were taught in the state's public schools. Proposition 227 changed the state's policy so that instead of having bilingual education programs, where LEP students were taught various subjects in their home language, schools would instead teach English to LEP students and teach other subjects in English. The plaintiffs, who were LEP students, filed a…
POLICING
Melendres v. Arpaio

2:07-cv-02513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2007

Case Ongoing

This case concerns racial profiling by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (“MCSO”) in Arizona. On December 12, 2007, Latino motorists filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the County of Maricopa, MCSO, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201. They sought to represent a class of Latino persons who have been or will be stopped, detained, interrogated, or searched by the Sheriff or his agents in …
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
State of Louisiana v. U S Environmental Protection Agency

2:23-cv-00692 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the ability of the US Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to impose disparate-impact-based requirements against a State or State agency in civil rights cases brought under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (“Title VI”). On May 24, 2023, the State of Louisiana (“the State”) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The State sued the EPA, EPA Administrator, Director of EPA’s External Civil Rights C…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Miller v. City of Dallas

3:98-cv-02955 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 2002

On December 16, 1998, a group of 12 African American residents of the Cadillac Heights neighborhood of Dallas brought suit against the City of Dallas in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alleging that the City had provided, and continued to provide, municipal services in the neighborhood in a racially- and ethnically-discriminatory manner. Plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on May 27, 1999, in which they specifically alleged the following: the City had refused to ex…
POLICING
Clark v. Hotard

3:22-cv-00326 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about racial profiling and over-policing in a Black neighborhood in Denham Springs, Louisiana. On May 19, 2022, a Black man from Denham Springs, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiff sued the Sheriff’s Office of Livingston Parish (LPSO), the Denham Springs Police Department (DSPD), and the City of Denham Springs under § 1983 and the US and Louisiana Constitutions. Represented by the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana …
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Mount Vernon Police Department

(no court) | No Court

On December 3, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, along with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced a pattern and practice investigation into the Mount Vernon Police Department (MVPD). The investigation would assess whether the MVPD engaged in practices of discriminatory policing. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 gave the investigators the authority to bring the inquiry. The act prohibited state and local governments …