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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

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. Wilder

62-cv-08695 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 1962

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 1963

This is a case about a county in Louisiana depriving citizens of the United States of the right to vote based on race or color. On February 21, 1962, the Attorney General of the United States filed suit in the Western District of Louisiana against the Registrar of Voters of Jackson Parish, the State of Louisiana, and the Citizens’ Council of Jackson Parish (as an organization and six members in their individual capacity), represented by the Attorney General of Louisiana. The U.S. Attorney Gener…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. State of Louisiana

63-02548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 1961

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 1972

This case is about the Louisiana Board of Registration enabling Parish Registrars to use interpretation tests, which deprived African American citizens in Louisiana of their right to vote. On December 28, 1961, the U.S. Attorney General filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the State of Louisiana, the Board of Registration of the State of Louisiana (both as an organization and three members in their individual capacities), and Hugh E. Cutrer, Jr., t…

Affirmed

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. iTutorGroup, Inc.

1:22-cv-02565 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 5, 2022

This case concerns age discrimination in artificial intelligence (AI)-aided application software. A woman over the age of 55 applied for a job posted by iTutorGroup, Inc. as an English-language tutor for students in China. When she applied using her actual birth date, her application was automatically rejected. However, when she refiled her application using a later birth date, she received an interview. This software was allegedly programmed to instantly reject women over age 55 and men over a…

Case Is Ongoing

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

FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection v. Townstone Financial, Inc.

1:20-cv-04176 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 15, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 7, 2024

This is a case about race-based discouragement in mortgage lending in violation of federal consumer protection and anti-discrimination laws.  On July 15, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. The Bureau sued Townstone Financial, Inc., a Chicago-based mortgage lender, and its owner, Barry Sturner, under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), its implementing regulation (Regula…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Reversed

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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Murray v. Santa Barbara

2:17-cv-08805 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2017

On December 6, 2017, several prisoners of the Santa Barbara County Jail (SBCJ) in pre-trial detention filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Santa Barbara and the Sheriff's Office under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29…

Case Is Ongoing

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…