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PRISON CONDITIONS
Bradley v. Haley

2:92-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 1992

Closed Date: Jan. 1, 2005

On January 15, 1992, a group of prisoners incarcerated in the Alabama Department of Corrections brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the adequacy of mental health treatment provided by state prison officials. The plaintiffs, mentally ill prisoners, were represented by private counsel and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The case was assigned to Judge W. Harold Albritton III. The plaintiffs were granted class certification o…
POLICING
People of the State of New York v. Wallkill

7:01-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2001

Closed Date: Feb. 28, 2006

This case involved misconduct by the Wallkill Police Department (WPD). On January 18, 2001, the Attorney General filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Town of Wallkill (Town), seeking injunctive relief to reform and monitor the WPD. The case was assigned to District Judge Colleen McMahon. The lawsuit was the offshoot of the Attorney General's investigation of the WPD. The investigation revealed a pattern of pervasive misconduct, including…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections

1:14-cv-00078 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 14, 2022

On February 10, 2014, the United States filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-6 ("Title VII"). The United States (the Employment Litigation Section of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division) brought suit against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections seeking an injunction to prevent the defendant from engaging in future discrimination and back-pay damages to “make whole” those who had been harmed by the alleg…
EDUCATION
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

1:24-cv-11354 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 22, 2024

Closed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

This case is about alleged antisemitism at Harvard College. On May 22, 2024, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights (“Brandeis Center”), the Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education (“JAFE”) and Harvard graduate students brought this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Harvard. The plaintiffs alleged that Harvard failed to adequately protect its Jewish and Israeli students from discrimination; they brought claims under Title VI for dire…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Morris v. Sheriff of Allen County

1:20-cv-00034 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2020

This is a case about incarcerated individuals experiencing overcrowding in their cells. This class action lawsuit was filed on January 21, 2020, contending that the chronically overcrowded conditions of the Allen County Jail in Indiana violates the inmates' rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. This action was brought under the 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, a man held at the Allen County Jail,  was represented by ACLU of Indiana and private counsel. The plaintiff sued the sherif…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Brown v. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:16-cv-00945 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 30, 2016

Closed Date: June 6, 2019

Nine current and former inmates at Roxbury Correctional Institute who are blind brought a discrimination lawsuit against the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. One individual inmate filed his complaint on March 30, 2016, and five days later this case was consolidated with eight other cases. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Federation of the Blind and Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland, alleged tha…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. ESSA Bank & Trust

2:23-cv-02065 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 31, 2023

On May 31, 2023, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice filed this lawsuit against ESSA Bank & Trust in the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The complaint claimed that ESSA’s policies and practices violated the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”) and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”) by redlining majority-Black and Hispanic communities and discouraging prospective applicants from applying for credit on the basis of race and national origin. The DOJ requ…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jensen v. Thornell

2:12-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 22, 2012

This case is a direct descendant of Gamez v. Ryan, which was dismissed with prejudice on March 21, 2012. The district court judge determined that the sudden expansion of the case to include thirteen new plaintiffs and class treatment in the third amended complaint was not within the court's contemplation when it permitted the plaintiff to file a third amended complaint. On March 22, 2012, fourteen Arizona prisoners brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Little v. Washington Metro. Area Transit Auth.

1:14-cv-01289 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 30, 2014

Closed Date: April 27, 2018

On July 30, 2014, nine African American employees with criminal records filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and its contractors. The plaintiffs, represented by the NAACP, the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, and private counsel, sought a declaratory judgment that the practices of the WMATA and its contractors were unlawful and violated Title VII of the Civil Righ…
CHILD WELFARE
D.G. v. Henry

4:08-cv-00074 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2008

Closed Date: March 13, 2025

The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights, filed this class action suit against the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) in February 2008 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The complaint alleged violations of the First, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq., and Oklahoma state …