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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Chen-Oster v. Goldman, Sachs

1:10-cv-06950 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2010

Case Ongoing

On September 16, 2010, three women who were previously employed at Goldman Sachs filed a lawsuit against the company in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that Goldman Sachs engaged in a pattern of gender discrimination in violation of state law and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. Specifically, they alleged that the company discriminated against them through its evaluation, c…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County

3:22-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case centers around the 2021 Galveston County, Texas redistricting process and is part of a series of cases challenging the redistricting practices in Galveston County over a number of years. This was the first Voting Rights Act (VRA) case decided since the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023). Following the 2010 Census, county leaders adopted a redistricting plan for the county commissioners’ districts that would have effectively removed the single minority op…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Fund for Empowerment v. City of Phoenix

2:22-cv-02041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to Phoenix’s policies policing homelessness and the City’s treatment of unsheltered individuals concerning unreasonable seizure and destruction of property during “homeless sweeps.” On November 30, 2023, the Fund for Empowerment (FFE) and two individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District court for the District of Arizona. Defendants included the City of Phoenix and police officials in their official capacities. Represented by the ACLU of Arizona, plaintiffs s…
POLICING
United States v. Puerto Rico

3:12-cv-02039 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2012

Case Ongoing

On December 21, 2012, after a thorough investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its police department pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The Government alleged that the Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments by engaging in unlawful patterns and practices. Filed along with the complaint was…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jones v. Deininger

2:12-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2012

Closed Date: May 1, 2014

This case challenged a Wisconsin voter ID law, Act 23, which required voters to present specific forms of identification in order to vote. The plaintiffs argued that the law disproportionately burdened African American and Latino Voters, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”). On February 23, 2021, four community organizations dedicated to serving the African American and Latin American communities in Wisconsin, and one individual who could not register to vote due t…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Jennings v. Wolf

3:20-cv-00148 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2020

Closed Date: May 1, 2023

This case, filed January 29, 2020, objected to the closure of two Pennsylvania intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID) (the Polk Center and the White Haven Center) and the rights of the individuals residing in those facilities. It is what some describe as a "reverse-Olmstead" lawsuit. (See Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999) (ADA guarantees the right to receive disability-related services in the community, where appropriate). The complaint was fil…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Baker v. Florissant

4:16-cv-01693 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2016

Closed Date: May 13, 2024

In this case, a Missouri city settled for $2.9 million over allegations that it had jailed plaintiffs for being unable to pay fines. On October 31st, 2016, a group of plaintiffs who had allegedly been jailed for their inability to pay fines owed to the City of Florissant, Missouri for traffic tickets or other minor municipal offenses sued the City for due process violations in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs were represented by the Advancement Projec…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Florida Inc. v. Lee

4:18-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 22, 2018

Closed Date: April 9, 2020

This case is about a directive issued by the Florida Secretary of State (the “2014 Directive”), which prohibited the use of Florida public university and college campuses as early voting polling locations. In 2013, the Florida state legislature revised its early voting law to give supervisors of elections the power to designate “any . . . fairground, civic center, courthouse, county commission building, stadium, convention center, government-owned senior center, or government-owned community ce…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Colon-Marrero v. Conty-Perez

3:12-cv-01749 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2012

Closed Date: Jan. 30, 2015

This case concerned the Puerto Rico State Election Commission's alleged illegal removal of electors from the electoral register.   On September 12, 2012, a citizen of the United States of America residing in Puerto Rico filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico against the President and the Commissioners of Puerto Rico’s State Elections Commission (“SEC”). The case was presided by District Judge Carmen Consuelo Cerezo. On September 21, 2012, another resident …
EDUCATION
Doe v. Madison Metropolitan School District

2020CV000454 | Wisconsin state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2020

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

On February 18, 2020, a group of parents whose children were attending schools in the Madison Metropolitan School District filed this lawsuit in the Dane County Circuit Court under Wis. Stat. §§ 806.04 and 813.01 against the Madison Metropolitan School District. Plaintiffs claimed that the defendant adopted and implemented policies that violated the rights of district parents by enabling children, of any age, to change their gender identity at school without parental notice or consent, and inst…