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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Ferguson-Florissant School District

4:14-cv-02077 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a voter dilution case that challenged an at-large election system utilized by the Ferguson Florissant School District in the State of Missouri to elect members to its School Board.  On December 18, 2014, the Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and certain African American residents and registered voters of the District filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Plaintiffs sued Ferguson-Florissa…
POLICING
Coleman v. Brookside

2:22-cv-00423 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 4, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a class-action lawsuit challenging a small town’s practice of over-policing to generate revenue through fines and fees. On April 4, 2022, a group of individuals whom the Brookside police detained in traffic stops filed this complaint and motion for class certification in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Town of Brookside, Alabama, Jett's Towing, and three Brookside police officers in their individual capacities, seeking redress for Fo…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge

4:19-cv-00449 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 26, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 19, 2022

Consolidated federal lawsuits were prompted by Arkansas state laws that limited the circumstances under which a woman could seek an abortion. The plaintiffs in both cases, abortion-providing facilities in Arkansas and the doctors that worked at them, claimed that Arkansas already regulated abortions to make it safe and that these laws unnecessarily restricted access. Specifically, they alleged that the 18-week ban prevented abortions before viability, the Reason Ban was unconstitutionally vague…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Sheriff [USDOJ CRIPA Case]

2:15-cv-05903 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2015

Case Ongoing

On June 6, 1996, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Los Angeles County that it intended to investigate conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail system (the Jails) pursuant to the Civil Rights of the Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In August of 1996, the DOJ toured the Jails with correctional mental health experts. The investigation found that the Jails were failing to provide care meeting constitutional standards to mentally ill inmates. On September 5, 1997, the DOJ…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and the Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, m…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of California v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

4:19-cv-04975 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2019

Closed Date: Jan. 30, 2023

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expanded the types of programs that the federal government would consider in public charge determinations to include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. In the fall of 2019, district court judges from across the country granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lucas v. Kmart Corp.

1:99-cv-01923 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1999

Closed Date: Oct. 25, 2014

On October 1, 1999 several disabled plaintiffs brought a national class action in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against Kmart for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. The case was heard by Judge John L. Kane. Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged Kmart provided "insufficient parking for persons with disabilities, has counters that are too high for persons who use wheelchairs, fails to provide accessible check-out aisl…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Chalmers v. New York

1:20-cv-03389 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

Fire protection inspectors (FPIs) and associate fire protection inspectors brought this class-action suit against the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that the Department engaged in racial discrimination by compensating FPIs and Building Inspectors (BIs) at different rates. FPIs and BIs tend to perform similar duties and have similar education levels, but a larger percentage of FPIs are people of color (70%) than BIs (…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
U.S. v. Mississippi

3:03-cv-01354 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2014

In 2002, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division ("DOJ") conducted investigations, aided by expert consultants in juvenile justice administration, psychology, medicine, education, and sanitation, at two military-style juvenile facilities ("Oakley" and "Columbia") operated by the state of Mississippi. In June 2003, DOJ notified the state in a findings letter that the investigations revealed that the facilities deprived the resident juveniles of rights under the First, Eighth and F…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights New York v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

1:20-cv-01487 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) records access authority. On December 3, 2020, Disability Rights New York (DRNY), New York’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. DRNY argued that the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (Department) violated the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act) and the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Ac…