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DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Lowell v. Lyft, Inc.

7:17-cv-06251 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2017

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This class action lawsuit was filed against Lyft, Inc., for failing to accommodate people with wheelchairs that don't fold.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America and the Vulcan Society v. City of New York

1:07-cv-02067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 21, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed a lawsuit on behalf of United States of America against the City of New York under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division. On July 17, 2007, the Vulcan Society--an organization of Black firefighters, and three individuals, filed an Intervenor's Complaint. Plaintiffs sued to enforce the right of Black and Hispanic candidates to be treated fairly in t…
EDUCATION
Gwinn v. Tulsa School District 9

4:01-cv-00460 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: June 27, 2001

Closed Date: March 26, 2002

Parents, as next of friend of their minor daughters, filed suit on June 27, 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma against Independent School District #9 of Tulsa County, also known as Union Public Schools, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. The complaint alleged that the school district had violated Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 by denying female students, specifically female softball players equal access to interscholastic…
EDUCATION
Johnson v. Gadsden City Schools

4:03-cv-02159 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2003

Closed Date: 2004

On August 5, 2003, parents, as next friends of their three minor, student daughters, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq. against Gadsden City School District and its superintendent. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming t…
EDUCATION
Keesee v. Holdenville Public Schools

6:00-cv-00008 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2000

Closed Date: Aug. 30, 2000

The documents for this case are unavailable. Plaintiffs filed suit against Holdenville Public Schools on January 6, 2000, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, alleging that the school district had violated female students' rights under Title IX of the Education Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Judge Michael Burrage granted class certification on March 13, 2000. Judge Burrage approved the settlement agreement on August 17…
EDUCATION
Craig v. Indep. Sch. Dist. No. 56

5:99-cv-00581 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: April 29, 1999

Closed Date: June 11, 2001

Parents, on behalf of their minor daughters, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma against Boone-Apache Public Schools on April 29, 1999. The plaintiffs sought class certification on behalf of all present and future female students who participate, seek to participate, or have been denied the opportunity to participate in interscholastic or other school-sponsored athletics at Boone-Apache Public Schools. The plaintiffs alleged that the school distri…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Gonzalez v. Pritzker

1:10-cv-03105 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 13, 2010

Case Ongoing

On April 13, 2010, rejected U.S. Census Bureau job applicants filed an employment discrimination class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by a coalition of public interest attorney organizations and private counsel, alleged that Census hiring procedures, which pre-screened all applicants with arrest records, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The Census screened out applicants whose names turn up in an FBI database, indi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Robinson v. District of Columbia Board of Elections

1:20-cv-01364 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 21, 2020

Closed Date: June 20, 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/06/2020, Washington DC's Board of Elections closed 14 of 17 polling stations in Ward 8, an area that is over 92% African-American, in response to COVID-19. Plaintiffs claim that since at least 2019, an unknown number of Ward 8 residents have not received mail-in ballots. The voters who do not receive mail-in ballots in …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Gamman's Architectural d/b/a Skylights International, Inc.

3:05-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2005

Case Ongoing

The Atlanta District Office of the EEOC brought this Title VII suit against Gammans Architectural (doing business as Skyline International, Inc.) and Gammans Architectural Products in September 2005 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The complaint alleged that complainants were terminated because of their race. More specifically, the complainants alleged that the defendant terminated the complainants (the two most tenured and experienced employees at their position…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.H. v. Hinds County

3:11-cv-00327 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

On June 1, 2011, a child imprisoned at the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against Hinds County, Mississippi under 42 U.S.C § 1983. The plaintiff, represented by attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleged that the county's confinement policies and practices violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, the plaintiff alleged excessive confinement in cells, inadequate menta…