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EDUCATION
Alexander v. Yale

3:77-cv-00277 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 3, 1977

Closed Date: Sept. 22, 1980

This case was the first sexual harassment case brought under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., which bans sex discrimination in education by institutions that receive federal funding. On July 3, 1977, several female students enrolled at Yale College and a faculty member filed this suit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against Yale University. They alleged that Yale was violating Title IX and H.E.W.'s Title IX regulatio…
EDUCATION
A.M. v. Indianapolis Public Schools

1:22-cv-01075 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 24, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case was brought by a 10-year-old transgender girl barred from playing with her school’s all-girls softball team. On May 24, 2022, she filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The complaint explained that A.M. had been living as a girl since she was four years old, that the state had changed her gender marker to female on her birth certificate following a court hearing, and that she had previously been allowed to play on the girls’ team. But then …
EDUCATION
Doe v. Hawaii

1:11-cv-00550 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2011

On August 11, 2010, the plaintiffs--deaf students who were sexually assaulted by a group of fellow students at a state-run school for the blind and deaf--brought this suit against the State of Hawaii. Represented by private counsel, and suing both individually and on behalf of a class of students sexually assaulted at the school between 2001 and 2013, they filed the case in Hawaii state court requesting damages, injunctive relief, and attorneys' fees. The lawsuit alleged a hostile environment,…
EDUCATION
Graham v. University of Michigan

2:21-cv-11168 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the University of Michigan’s sexual assault policies. On May 20, 2021, a current University of Michigan student filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff sued the University of Michigan (U of M) and the Regents of the University of Michigan under Title IX (20 U.S.C. § 1681). Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought certification of a proposed class of “All current U of M students” and an …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Equality Florida v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 31, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case, filed on March 31, 2022, challenged Florida House Bill 1557, the Florida statute widely known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. H.B. 1557 banned any school instruction on "sexual orientation and gender identity." Individual plaintiffs were made up of organizations, students, parents, and teachers in Florida. They brought this suit under § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and alleged constitutional and statutory violation. Specifically, plaintiffs alleged…
EDUCATION
Cannon v. University of Chicago

1:75-02402 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 18, 1975

Closed Date: June 7, 1989

This is a case about a female medical school applicant who alleged that she was denied admission because of her gender and age in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and multiple federal statutes. In April of 1975, a 39-year-old female medical school applicant filed this lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by private counsel, she sued the medical schools at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, as well a…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Meehan v. State of New Hampshire

New Hampshire state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action civil rights lawsuit alleged abuses at a New Hampshire youth detention center, the Youth Detention Center (YDC), in the 1990s. An alleged victim of that abuse filed this suit on January 11, 2021 against the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, YDC, the state Division of Juvenile Services, the state Division of Children, Youth, and Families, and hundreds of individual defendants. The plaintiff was represented by the private law firm Rilee & Associates and the …
EDUCATION
A.C. v. Metropolitan School District of Martinsville

1:21-cv-02965 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2021

Case Ongoing

A transgender middle school boy in Indiana filed this lawsuit on December 3, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The student's school denied him access to the boy's restroom and soccer team. Several of the school's staff likewise refused to use his preferred pronouns. According to the complaint, the school's actions discriminated against the student in violation of Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause. Represented by the ACLU of Indiana and Indiana Legal S…
EDUCATION
Department of Education OCR Title IX Investigation of University of Southern California

09-13-2294 | No Court

Filed Date: 2013

Case Ongoing

The United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) received a complaint in 2013 filed by University of Southern California (USC) students on behalf of themselves and other students, which alleged that USC failed to respond promptly and equitably to reports of sexual harassment or sexual violence in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (09-13-2294). A subsequent complaint (09-16-2128) was filed by a male student against the university in 2016. The compl…
EDUCATION
Department of Education OCR Title IX Investigation of Pitzer College

09-12-2151 | No Court

Filed Date: March 19, 2012

Closed Date: 2014

On March 19, 2012, the United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) received a complaint alleging that the defendant had violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Specifically, the complaint alleged that Pitzer College failed to adequately respond to an internal complaint that a male student had sexually assaulted the complainant. The complaint also alleged that the college did not adequately respond when the student complained of retaliation by other studen…