Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citations

Citation 1

Citation 2

Citation 3

Search for:
45 cases, 47 documents
Ordered by
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Jock v. Sterling Jewelers, Inc.

1:08-cv-02875 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 18, 2008

Case Ongoing

On March 18, 2008, sixteen current and former female employees of Sterling Jewelers, Inc., filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Sterling, a large jewelry retailer. The case was assigned to District Judge Jed Sol Rakoff. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued under under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000e), the Equal Pay Act (29 U.S.C. § 206(d)), and the Age Discrimination in Employm…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Geissler v. Stirling

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

Filed Date: June 30, 2017

Case Ongoing

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
Hawaii v. Trump

1:17-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

The below summary is a condensed version. The full summary can be found here on the Clearinghouse website. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin filed this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 against President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants, visitors, and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a concurrent complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. Distr…
CHILD WELFARE
M.B. v. Tidball

2:17-cv-04102 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 12, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 12, 2017, M.B., five minors in the Missouri foster care system (through their "Next Friends") filed this lawsuit in the Western District of Missouri. The Plaintiffs sued the Interim Director of the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) and the Director of the Children’s Division (CD) of DSS, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for alleged substantive due process rights violations, procedural due process rights violations, and a violation of the Federal Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare A…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Jewel v. National Security Agency

3:08-cv-04373 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2008

Case Ongoing

On September 18, 2008, AT&T customers filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the United States. The plaintiffs, represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and private counsel, claimed that the federal government's electronic surveillance program violated the Fourth Amendment, First Amendment, separation of powers, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the Wiretap Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act or the …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
NAACP v. Bureau of the Census

8:18-cv-00891 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 28, 2018

Closed Date: April 16, 2020

On March 28, 2018 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Prince George’s County, Maryland filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the U.S. Census Bureau, the Secretary of Commerce, and the President of the United States for “conspicuous neglect” of their duty to ensure the “actual enumeration” required by Article I of the U.S. Constitution. The case was assigned to Judge Paul W. Grimm.The plaintiffs cla…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Romero v. Securus Technologies, Inc.

3:16-cv-01283 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: May 27, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 27, 2016, former California state prisoners filed this class action lawsuit against Securus Technologies (a prison phone service provider) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District Court of California. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought class action certification, declaratory and injunctive relief, and monetary damages. The complaint asserted that Securus had recorded prisoners’ phone calls in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, which allowe…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Gulino v. New York City Board of Education

1:96-cv-08414 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 1996

Case Ongoing

On November 8, 1996, a group of Black and Latinx teachers in the New York City Public School System filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Board of Education of the New York City School District (Board) and the New York State Education Department (Department). This action was filed on behalf of themselves and all similarly situated Black and Latinx teachers in the system who were adversely affected by either of two allegedly …
NATIONAL SECURITY
Latif v. U.S. Department of Justice

3:10-cv-00750 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 30, 2010

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2019

On June 30, 2010, this suit was filed by a group of Americans denied boarding onto international flights into the United States because of their inclusion on the "No Fly List." The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The complaint named as defendants the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Terrorist Screening Center, which created the list. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the plaintiffs alleged violations of t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Buquer v. City of Indianapolis

1:11-cv-00708 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 25, 2011

Closed Date: 2013

On May 25, 2011, three foreign residents of Indiana filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, against the cities of Indianapolis and Franklin and the counties of Marion and Johnson. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Indiana, the national ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, the National Immigration Law Center, and private counsel, filed their suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), …