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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Perez-Farias v. Global Horizons, Inc.

2:05-cv-03061 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: July 12, 2005

Closed Date: 2014

On July 12, 2005, three U.S. orchard workers from Yakima Valley who had been denied or terminated from agricultural employment, brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Represented by Columbia Legal Services and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued Global Horizons, Green Acre Farms, Platte River Insurance Company, and Valley Fruit Orchards, under the Migrants and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (29 U.S.C. § 1801), the Farm…
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Peltier v. Charter Day School, Inc.

7:16-cv-00030 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Feb. 29, 2016

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This lawsuit concerns a public charter school dress code that required female students to wear skirts allegedly in violation of the Equal Protection Clause.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Fant v. City of Ferguson

4:15-cv-00253 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

On February 8, 2015, persons jailed for failing to pay fines imposed by the City of Ferguson that they could not afford filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They made a number of allegations against Ferguson, including: (1) that the City failed to conduct an inquiry into whether plaintiffs were able to pay their fines before jailing them, in violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment; (2) that the City fai…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ashker v. Brown

4:09-cv-05796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Case Ongoing

On December 9, 2009, two prisoners at California's Pelican Bay prison who had been kept in solitary confinement for decades filed this § 1983 action against the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, originally proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the "in…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Kerrigan v. Phila. Bd. of Elections

2:07-cv-00687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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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

Case Ongoing

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 …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. INTOWN SUITES MANAGEMENT, INC.

1:03-cv-01494 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 27, 2003

Closed Date: Nov. 21, 2005

The Atlanta Office of the EEOC filed this action in the District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. The Defendant was Intown Suites, Inc., an apartment-style hotel chain. The controversy involved the alleged retaliation against the complainant in response to her complaint that she was opposed to the company policy of not hiring minorities for management positions. The complainant intervened and also alleged that the company had a pattern of discriminating against people of color. T…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Geissler v. Stirling

4:17-cv-01746 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 30, 2017

Closed Date: April 22, 2022

An individual with Hepatitis C who was incarcerated at the South Carolina Department of Corrections brought this pro se lawsuit on June 30, 2017. The plaintiff challenged the Department's testing and treatment protocols for Hepatitis C, alleging that the Department’s policies and practices fell below the constitutional standard of care. The Department’s conduct allegedly violated the Eighth Amendment and the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiff sou…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Lewis-McCoy v. Wolf

1:20-cv-01142 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class-action lawsuit concerns the Trump administration’s decision to block New York residents from participating in the Global Entry program, allegedly in retaliation for the state’s Green Light Law, which allows undocumented immigrants to obtain New York driver’s licenses and limits federal immigration officials’ access to records held by New York’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Since February 2012, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has operated a nationwide Global Entry prog…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Swain v. Junior

1:20-cv-21457 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 5, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: On April 4, 2020, individuals detained in Miami-Dade County jails filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeking habeas, injunctive, and declaratory relief. The court granted plaintiff’s motion for a TRO and preliminary injunction in part, and the defendants appealed to the Eleventh Circuit. On June 15, the Eleventh Circuit vacated the preliminary injunction. A jury trial was scheduled for March 1, 2021, but the case was…