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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Messier v. Southbury Training School

3:94-cv-01706 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1994

Closed Date: March 13, 2019

On October 4, 1994, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against Connecticut's Departments of Mental Retardation (DMR), Social Services (DSS), and Public Health (DPH) and Southbury Training School, an intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/MR) in Southbury, Connecticut. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought injunctive relief on behalf of both current and future Southbury residents.…
POLICING
U.S. v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

3:08-cv-00158 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2008

In March 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated an investigation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) pursuant to 42 USC § 14141. On October 5, 2005, the DOJ issued a technical assistance letter to VIPD, making recommendations regarding specific changes to the department's policies regarding use of force, vehicle pursuits, holding cells, misconduct investigations, discipline, supervisory oversight, and training. On December 23, 2008, the DOJ …
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. …
NATIONAL SECURITY
American Oversight v. Hegseth

1:25-cv-00883 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

This case challenges high-level federal officials' use of encrypted, auto-deleting messaging apps to conduct national security business, raising serious record-keeping and transparency concerns.  On March 25, 2025, American Oversight filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the CIA, and several other senior federal figures. The plaintiffs challenged the defendants’ use of t…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

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…
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 …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Manning

61-08257 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 28, 1961

Closed Date: Feb. 16, 1963

On April 28, 1961, the U.S Attorney General sued the State of Louisiana and the Registrar of Voters for East Carroll Parish for creating policies that prevented Black people from exercising the right to register to vote. This action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, and was assigned to Chief Judge Ben C. Dawkins, Jr. The Attorney General sought injunctive relief to end the systemic voter registration denial for persons of color.  As alleged in the compl…