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United States v. City of New Orleans

2:12-cv-01924 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

In 2010, New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu invited the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to review civil rights issues at the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), and propose any necessary reforms. The DOJ opened the requested investigation on May 15, 2010, pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on March 17, 2011, the DO…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

No Docket | No Court

On August 5, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department (“Phoenix”). According to the announcement, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, intended to examine whether the City and the Department had a pattern or practice of violating the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of its citizens, the 1964 Civil Rights Act,…
EDUCATION
Black Parallel School Board v. Sacramento City Unified School District

2:19-cv-01768 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 5, 2019, the Black Parallel School Board and three students in the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) filed this putative class action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs sued SCUSD and a selection of its officers under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), and state law. Represente…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Alianza Americas v. DeSantis

1:22-cv-11550 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the relocation of about fifty immigrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, by chartered planes. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants—Florida officials and unidentified individuals—induced the immigrants to board two planes with promises of employment, housing, and educational opportunities at their destination, but that once the planes landed in Martha's Vineyard, the immigrants were left without any assistance and the defendants were unreachable.  On Se…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
CODING IN PROCESS
EPA Investigation of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Health

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In response to administrative complaints filed with the agency (Nos. 01R-22-R6, 02R-22-R6, and 04R-22-R6), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened an investigation into the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and the Louisiana Department of Health's (LDH) on April 6, 2022 via its authority under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and EPA's nondiscrimination regulations. The complaints alleged that LDEQ's implementation of its air pollution control permit program …
EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina

1:14-cv-00954 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On Nov. 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the University of North Carolina (UNC). The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that UNC's current admissions policy discriminated against Asian A…
EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

1:14-cv-14176 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d against Harvard College. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that Harvard's admissions policy discriminated against Asian American applicants. Specifically, the plainti…
EDUCATION
Denton v. Board of Governors for the State University System of Florida

4:22-cv-00341 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about educational disparities between historically black colleges and universities compared to traditionally white educational institutions in Florida. On September 22, 2022, six African American plaintiffs, current undergraduates and graduate students of Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University (FAMU), sought class status in a lawsuit on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated against the Board of Governors for the State University System of Florida and against th…
POLICING
Bailey v. City of Philadelphia

2:10-cv-05952 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 2010

Case Ongoing

On November 4, 2010, eight African-American male residents of Philadelphia filled this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia division ("PPD"). The plaintiffs sued the City of Philadelphia and individual police officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Pennsylvania state law. The putative class, represented by the ACLU of Pennsylvania and private attorneys, sought injunctive and compens…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Cabrini-Green Local v. CHA

1:96-cv-06949 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 1996

Case Ongoing

On October 23, 1996, Cabrini-Green Local Advisory Council (LAC), a tenant organization that represents the tenants of Cabrini-Green, a family public housing development in Chicago, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiff sued the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and its Executive Director under the Fair Housing Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, HOPE VI, the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, and the the Uniform Relocati…