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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

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2018

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 plaintif…
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…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. State of Mississippi

3:70-cv-04706 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 9, 1970

Case Ongoing

Fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 88% of Mississippi’s black students still attended all-black schools. Ubiquitous “freedom of choice” plans let white children transfer to predominantly white schools. Individual lawsuits and threats of funding cuts from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare proved unable to effect wholesale desegregation. But in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of choice plan in Holmes County, Mississippi, was unconstitutional and …
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…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
U.S. v. Matthews

6:04-cv-00291 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 25, 2004

Closed Date: 2018

In 1962, a lawsuit was filed against the Longview Independent School District (LISD) in the the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The suit later resulted in a 1970 desegregation order, which created attendance zones and provided for transportation of students to schools to achieve racial balancing as well as a majority-to-minority transfer program. There is very little additional information as to the details of that lawsuit or the content of the order.On June 25, …
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
United States of America v. Richardson Independent School District

3:70-cv-04101 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 1970

Closed Date: 2013

This case was originally part of United States v. Texas Education Agency but was later separated and became an independent case. On 08/19/1970, United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division filed a complaint against Richardson Independent School District, among other Texas school districts, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The U.S. sought an injunction prohibiting the defendant school districts from discriminating against Black students on the basis of …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. Avoyelles Parish School Board

1:65-cv-12721 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: March 2, 1967

Case Ongoing

The United States, as plaintiff, filed this school desegregation case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in 1967, with Judge Edwin Hunter presiding. The United States sued the Avoyelles Parish School Board to enjoin the operation of a segregated school system. Initially, the Board pursued a freedom-of-choice approach to desegregation. The Fifth Circuit at first approved the use of freedom of choice plans in United States v. Jefferson. 372 F.2d 836 (5th Cir. Dec. 29…
EDUCATION
Tooley v. Van Buren Public Schools

2:14-cv-13466 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2014

Closed Date: 2017

On September 5, 2014, a fourteen-year-old transgender boy filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against South Middle School and its administrators, Summit Academy Charter Public School and its administrators, Wilson Middle School and its administrators, and OW Best Middle School and its administrators. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, proceeded under Title IX, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the First Amendment, and the Due Process and E…
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…