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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Doe v. State of Ohio

2:91-cv-00464 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 10, 1991

Case Ongoing

This is a case about special education in Ohio's public schools. This lawsuit was brought on May 9, 1991, by a student (through his parent), a teacher, a local Board of Education, and a district superintendent. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and later by the Ohio Legal Rights Service, sued the state of Ohio, the State Board of Education, the state superintendent, and the state Department of Education. The plaintiffs sued under state constitutional and statutory law, 42 U.S.C. § …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana. v. Rainbow Realty Group

1:17-cv-01782 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 30, 2017

Case Ongoing

On May 30, 2017, the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana and three individual named plaintiffs brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana against the Rainbow Rental Group and Empire Holding Corp., alleging a predatory “rent-to-own” program. Represented by two private law firms, Plaintiffs claimed violations of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Housing Act, four provisions of the Truth in Lending Act, and a state housing law. Specifically, the C…
NATIONAL SECURITY
First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. National Security Agency

4:13-cv-03287 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 2013

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2023

On September 10, 2013, organizations, associations, and advocacy groups, their staffs, and their members who subscribed to major American telecommunication companies filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the National Security Agency ("NSA"), the Department of Justice, and the United States of America. The plaintiffs, represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and private counsel, sought an injunction permanently enjoining the United…
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
POLICING
Baerga v. City of New York

1:21-cv-05762 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about how the New York City Police Department (NYPD) must treat people who face mental health challenges. On July 5, 2021, an individual with mental disabilities filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against New York City and several New York City officials and police officers. Judge Alison Nathan presided at the time of filing. On December 29, 2021, the individual was joined by three additional individual plaintiffs and three non-prof…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Al Otro Lado v. Kelly

3:17-cv-02366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: July 12, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the legality of the government’s treatment of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. On July 12, 2017, a group of Honduran and Mexican asylum seekers and Al Otro Lado, a legal service organization which supports indigent deportees, refugees, and migrants, filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The pseudonymous plaintiffs fled gang-related and/or severe domestic violence and presented themselves at a Port of Entry (PO…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Flores v. Town of Islip

2:18-cv-03549 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 18, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2020

This case alleged that the town of Islip, New York's election scheme unconstitutionally diluted the strength of the Latino vote.  On June 18, 2018, Latino voters and a New York-based voting rights group sued the town of Islip, New York; the Islip Town Board; and the Suffolk County Board of Elections in the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs claimed that the city's at-large election scheme had the effect of impairing Islip’s minority Latino voters right to an equal opportunity to participa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Rivera Madera v. Detzner

1:18-cv-00152 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2021

This case centers around allegations that the Secretary of State of Florida failed to uphold the requirements of Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act (52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.), which prohibits conditioning the right to vote on a person's ability to understand English if they were educated in a school where the predominant language was not English, such as in Puerto Rico. On August 16, 2018, ahead of the 2018 midterm elections in November, the plaintiffs—which included voting rights organizatio…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Allen v. Waller County, Texas

4:18-cv-03985 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2018

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

This case involved allegations that county officials failed to allocate sufficient time for early voting during the 2018 general election cycle to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) (a historically Black university) in the State of Texas as compared to the other surrounding areas. Individual students and a student and alumni organization PVAMU, represented by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorneys, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Div…