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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. State of Alabama

2:15-cv-02193 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2018

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) In 2011, Alabama passed HB19, a restrictive voter ID law. On December 2, 2015, the Legal Defense Fund filed suit on behalf of Greater Birmingham Ministries ("GBM") and the Alabama NAACP against the state in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, alleging that HB19 had a racially discriminatory effect on voters of color in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act.
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
J.L. v. Cissna

5:18-cv-04914 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2018

None
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.H. v. Hinds County

3:11-cv-00327 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

On June 1, 2011, a child imprisoned at the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against Hinds County, Mississippi under 42 U.S.C § 1983. The plaintiff, represented by attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleged that the county's confinement policies and practices violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, the plaintiff alleged excessive confinement in cells, inadequate menta…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Marria v. Broadus

1:97-cv-08297 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 1997

Case Ongoing

On November 10, 1997, an inmate at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, New York, filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that his constitutional rights had been violated when the prison refus…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network v. City of Los Angeles

2:07-cv-03072 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 9, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 9, 2007 organizations and individuals present at a May 1st immigration rally in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, CA filed suit against the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, included the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network, the Korean Immigrant Workers Alliance, the Coalition for Humane …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Love v. Beshear

3:13-cv-00750 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: July 26, 2013

Closed Date: 2016

On July 26, 2013, a same-sex couple married under the laws of Ontario filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the governor, attorney general, secretary of state of Kentucky and two county clerks. The plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of Kentucky's laws prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and voiding within Kentucky marriages of same-sex couples validly entered into under the laws of other states or countries…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LOCKHEED MARTIN

1:05-cv-00479 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2005

Closed Date: Jan. 16, 2010

In August 2005, the EEOC filed suit against aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin in U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, alleging that a black employee was subjected to racial harassment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The complaint further alleged that the employee was laid off in retaliation for complaining about the discrimination. The charging party intervened in the case in addition to filing his own suit (1:05-cv-00496). The two cases were subsequently cons…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. AIRGUIDE CORPORATION

1:02-cv-22912 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

On September 30, 2002, the Miami District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed this lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, against Airguide Corporation and Pioneer Metals. Airguide manufactured air conditioning units, and Pioneer Metals was Airguide's parent company. The EEOC, who brought suit on behalf of eight current and former male and female employees and other similarly situated individuals who were employed by A…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Joslin Dry Goods Company d/b/a Dillard's

1:05-cv-00177 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2005

Closed Date: 2011

In January 2005, the Denver Field Office and Phoenix Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against The Joslin Dry Goods Company, doing business as Dillard's, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We do not have a copy of the decree; therefore, the exact remedies involved are unknown. The complainant intervened in the lawsuit in March 2005, and was voluntarily di…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Frame v. City of Arlington

4:05-cv-00470 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 22, 2005

On July 22, 2005, a group of Arlington residents who have mobility impairments that require that they use motorized wheelchairs filed a lawsuit under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131 et seq., and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas for an injunction requiring the City to bring its curbs, sidewalks, and parking lots into AD…