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FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Mhany Management Inc. v. County of Nassau

2:05-cv-02301 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 12, 2005

Closed Date: March 11, 2022

On May 12, 2005, individual New York residents and the New York ACORN local chapter filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued Nassau County and the Village of Garden City under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Fair Housing Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, citing violations of these acts as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The plaintiffs asked the court to enjoin the defendants from procee…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Allen v. International Truck and Engine

1:02-cv-00902 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 10, 2002

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2018

On October 16, 2001, a group of current and former African-American employees and job applicants filed a lawsuit against Defendant under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for monetary and injunctive relief, alleging that they and other similarly-situated African-American employees had suffered and continued to suffer racial harassment and a hostile work environment as w…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Reynolds v. Giuliani

1:98-cv-08877 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1998

New York City implemented an overhaul to its welfare system in order to meet federal and state welfare requirements, which were revised in the mid-1990s. Under the city’s program, “income support centers” (locations where public assistance benefits were applied for and distributed, sometimes during the initial visit by an applicant) were to be converted to “job centers.” These job centers put greater emphasis on making sure those receiving public assistance obtained employment from the private …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Cahill v. Nike, Inc.

3:18-cv-01477 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2018

This is a putative class action by women employees of Nike alleging gender discrimination in pay and promotion.  It was filed on August 9, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon and assigned to Magistrate Judge Jolie A. Russo. Two former employees, represented by private attorneys, filed the suit on behalf of a putative class of all current and former female employees who had worked in a salaried corporate position at Nike during the two previous years. They alleged violati…

Case Is Ongoing

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Jacobson v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

4:14-cv-02485 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2014

Closed Date: June 16, 2021

On November 20, 2014, two residents of Arivaca, Arizona and volunteer members of a community organization called People Helping People (PHP) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against the U.S. Border Patrol and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The plaintiffs alleged that DHS interfered with their “checkpoint monitoring campaign” at a Border Patrol checkpoint approximately 35 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Arizona. The plai…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. Dugan

2:25-cr-00089 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

This case was a highly unusual federal criminal prosecution of a sitting state court judge—who was alleged by the Trump Administration to have interfered with an immigration arrest. On April 24, 2025, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin indicted Wisconsin Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on two counts: (1) obstruction of a federal administrative proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 1505, and (2) concealment of a person from arrest under 18 U.S.C. § 1071. The case was assigned to U.S. Di…

Case Is Ongoing

NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
Connor v. Maryland Department of Health

1:24-cv-01423 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 15, 2024

This is a disability rights case about state inspections of nursing homes in Maryland. On May 15, 2024, five nursing home residents filed this class action lawsuit against Maryland's Department of Health (MDOH) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Plaintiffs sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, alleging that MDOH failed to conduct annual inspections of Medicaid and Medicare-funded nursing facilities and allowed a bac…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Butler v. Suffolk County

2:11-cv-02602 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

On May 27, 2011, twenty persons then confined in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility (SCCF), which consists of the Riverhead Correctional Facility (a medium/maximum security jail) and the Yaphank Correctional Facility (a minimum security jail), filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983. The lawsuit was filed pro se as a class action, on behalf of those individuals and all others similarly situated. The plaintiffs sought …

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Cepeda v. State of Florida

1:17-cv-11835 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2017

Closed Date: May 24, 2018

On June 25, 2013, the United States Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Shelby County v. Holder. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act requires certain covered jurisdictions to obtain approval from federal authorities in Washington, D.C. before changing voting procedures. Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act defined these covered jurisdictions as ones that had a voting device or test in the 1960s or early 1970s and had lower voter turnout or registration in the 19…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Moore v. Johnson

2:14-cv-11903 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 12, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2014

This case involves a civil rights action to challenge the constitutionality of a Michigan statute which requires individuals to be registered voters to circulate nominating petitions to place candidates for partisan office on the primary election ballot. For such placement, Michigan election law requires submission of at least 1,000 valid signatures of registered Michigan voters who reside in the candidate's congressional district. A candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives submitted nom…

Settled: Case Closed