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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…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry

204-8-265 | No Court

This investigation concerns allegations of discrimination against incarcerated persons with vision disabilities by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR). On July 19, 2023, the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued the findings of its investigation under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in a letter to the General Counsel of the ADCRR. The DOJ’s inquiry was sparked by …
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Suffolk County Police Department

No Court

On November 25, 2008, the LatinoJustice PRLDEF of New York filed a complaint letter with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division demanding that the federal government look into the Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD). They alleged that SCPD had deprived Latinos equal access to the law, both by failing to adequately investigate crimes committed against Latinos by whites and by discouraging Latinos from seeking assistance from local law enforcement agencies. Though it made no ref…

Re: Suffolk County Police Department Technical Assistance Letter

DOJ Investigation of Suffolk County Police Department

Sept. 13, 2011

United States Agrees to Comprehensive Settlement with Suffolk County Police Department to Resolve Investigation of Discriminatory Policing Against Latinos

[Suffolk County Police Department]

Dec. 3, 2013

Agreement between the United States Department of Justice and Suffolk County Police Department

DOJ Investigation of Suffolk County Police Department

Jan. 13, 2014

Convenio Entre el Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos y el Departamento de Policía del Condado de Suffolk [Settlement Agreement (Spanish)]

DOJ Investigation of Suffolk County Police Department

Jan. 13, 2014

Correspondence Re: Assessment of SCPD's Compliance with the Settlement Agreement

DOJ Investigation of Suffolk County Police Department

June 26, 2015

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Wiginton v. CB Richard Ellis

1:02-cv-06832 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2002

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2010

On September 25, 2002, female employees of CB Richard Ellis filed a lawsuit against their employer under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs alleged that they had been discriminated against on the basis of their gender and asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as compensatory and punitive damages. Specifically, the plaintiffs contended that there was a sex…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Pecunas v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

1:11-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2011

On January 20, 2011, Voices for Independence, a non-profit disability advocacy group, and a class of disabled individuals, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, against Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), and Millcreek Township. The Plaintiffs alleged that the pedestrian walkways, sidewalks, and intersections in Millcreek Township were not in compliance with the accessibility mandates of Title II of the Americans with Disa…

Class Action Complaint for Civil and Declaratory Relief

Pecunas v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and Millcreek Township

Jan. 20, 2011

Motion to Approve Consent Decree and Partial Settlement Among Defendant Millcreek Township, PA and Plaintiffs [Consent Decree and Partial Settlement Attached]

Pecunas v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and Millcreek Township

Oct. 4, 2011

Order [Granting Motion to Approve Consent Decree]

Pecunas v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and Millcreek Township

Oct. 12, 2011

Joint Motion to Approve Joint Partial Settlement Among All Parties

Pecunas v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Nov. 21, 2016

Fifth Consent Decree and Partial Settlement Among Defendant Millcreek Township and Plaintiffs

Pecunas v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Nov. 30, 2017

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POLICING
United States of America v. County of Los Angeles

2:15-cv-03174 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 28, 2015

The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated a civil investigation of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department on August 19, 2011. The investigation focused on allegations of unconstitutional conduct by deputies at two stations located in the Antelope Valley cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, California. The DOJ proceeded under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,42 U.S.C. § 14141 (Section 14141), and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,42 U.S.C. …
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
POLICING
Illinois v. City of Chicago

1:17-cv-06260 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2017

This case established a consent decree related to alleged systemic misconduct by the Chicago Police Department.  On August 29, 2017, the State of Illinois filed this lawsuit against the City of Chicago in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003, and the Illinois Human Rights Act. The State brought this action on behalf of the people of Illinois to ensure that the City enacted comprehensive, lasting reform of th…
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

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2025

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 …