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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States v. Yonkers

1:80-cv-06761 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 1980

Case Ongoing

This is a school and housing desegregation case in Yonkers, New York. The initial complaint was filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1980, and the Yonkers branch of the NAACP intervened in 1981 to make the case a class action. After 27 years, the parties settled in 2007, with Yonkers agreeing to build 800 units of public housing in predominantly-white East and Northwest Yonkers. This case was highly contentious: in the late 1980s, Yonkers defied the court’s desegregation orders, resulting…
EDUCATION
Alicia B. v. Malloy

3:16-cv-00065 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2015

Case Ongoing

On December 15, 2015, two African-American students in Connecticut public schools filed this lawsuit in Connecticut Superior Court. On January 14, 2016, the case was removed to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs sued the Bloomfield Board of Education, the Manchester Board of Education, the Hartford Board of Education, the State Board of Education, and the State Department of Education under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 19…
EDUCATION
University of South Carolina

No Court

Filed Date: 2010

In 2010, after receiving a report of race discrimination on the University of South Carolina ("USC") campus, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") examined USC's policies and practices related to the handling of complaints of discrimination and harassment under federal civil rights laws, including Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following its investigation, the DOJ reached a settlement agreement, under which USC agreed to improve its policies and practic…
EDUCATION
Eccleston v. Pine Bush Central School District

7:12-cv-02303 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 28, 2012

On March 28th, 2012, five former and current Jewish students filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the Pine Bush School District. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for declarative judgment, injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the school district had responded with deliberate indifference to the rampant anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment directed at the plainti…
EDUCATION
Owatonna Public School District No. 761

No Court

Filed Date: 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 1, 2014

A November, 2009 fight between several white and Somali-American students at Owatonna High School and alleged severe and pervasive harassment generated a complaint to the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("the Division") and the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") regarding the student-on-student harassment and disproportionate discipline of Somali-American students based on their race and national-origin by O…
EDUCATION
DeKalb County School District

13-crt-516 | No Court

Filed Date: 2013

Case Ongoing

A Sikh middle school student reported incidents of physical and verbal bullying based upon his religion and national origin to DeKalb County School District ("DCSD") officials for years. When the incidents didn't stop, the student sought counsel from the Sikh Coalition. In October 2012, the Sikh Coalition began representing the student, placed DCSD on notice of ongoing harassment, and demanded safety plans and effective remedial measures to diminish the hostile educational environment, includ…
EDUCATION
Settlement Agreement between United States and Jefferson Parish Public School System

No Court

Filed Date: 2014

Case Ongoing

On August 22, 2012, the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section and the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights received a written complaint alleging national origin discrimination by Louisiana's Jefferson Parish Public School System (JPPSS) against Latino students and parents. The Division and OCR received a supplemental complaint with additional allegations of national origin discrimination on November I, 2012. On September 26, 201…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. Caldwell Parish School Board

3:71-cv-16751 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 11, 1971

This school desegregation case was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in 1971. The United States, as plaintiff, sued the Caldwell Parish School Board to enjoin the operation of a segregated school system. The case lasted until 2011 when the district court concluded that the school system had achieved unitary status. On May 11, 1971, the plaintiffs filed this action and by June 8, the parties had agreed to a desegregation plan. The district court (Judge Benj…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
US v. Columbus Municipal Separate School District

1:70-cv-00055 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 13, 1970

Closed Date: 2012

In 1955, the Supreme Court ordered school districts to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.” 349 U.S. 294. But the city of Columbus, MS did not allow black students to attend schools previously reserved for whites until 1965, a decade later. Even by 1970, no white students attended a historically black school, and less than 5% of black students attended historically white schools. The United States brought this action on July 13, 1970 in the United States District Court for the Northern Dist…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Cowan and US v. Bolivar County Board of Education

4:65-cv-00031 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 25, 1965

Case Ongoing

On July 25, 1965, students of the Bolivar County Board of Education filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi under Title IV and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The lawsuit was against the Bolivar County Board of Education; plaintiffs sought preliminary and permanent injunctions to end the compulsory biracial school system. Various plans were submitted until, on July 22, 1969, Judge Keady entered an Order requiring that the dual system be d…