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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

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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dunsmore v. State of California

3:20-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: March 2, 2020

This class action lawsuit alleged that the San Diego County Jail denied proper health accommodations to detainees. On March 2, 2020, a jail detainee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiff sued the State of California, San Diego County, the San Diego Sheriff's Department, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the San Diego County Sheriff, and the Attorney General of California. Proceeding pro se and in forma pau…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Brown v. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:16-cv-00945 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 30, 2016

Closed Date: June 6, 2019

Nine current and former inmates at Roxbury Correctional Institute who are blind brought a discrimination lawsuit against the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. One individual inmate filed his complaint on March 30, 2016, and five days later this case was consolidated with eight other cases. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Federation of the Blind and Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland, alleged tha…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Dehart v. Stevens-Henager College

1:05-cv-00118 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2005

Closed Date: March 28, 2008

This is a case about gender-based employment discrimination. This case was brought on September 22, 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah by a former employee of Stevens-Henager College who alleged that she was paid a lower salary because of her gender, in violation of the Equal Pay Act ("EPA") and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin). In her complaint, the plaintiff also all…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. One Boyertown Properties LP

5:20-cv-06249 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

Background This is a case about accessibility for people with disabilities in senior living communities. On December 11, 2020, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against fourteen companies who had designed, built, and/or owned fifteen buildings that housed independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The DOJ sued the defendants under the …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pope v. County of Albany

1:11-cv-00736 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: June 29, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 16, 2015

This is a case alleging that an Albany County reapportionment law violated the Voting Rights Act.  On June 29, 2011, three registered minority voters in Albany County filed this suit against the County of Albany and the Albany County Board of Elections alleging that Local Law C, which apportioned the 39 single-member legislative districts of the Albany County Legislature, violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. This is because, as argued in their complaint, there were pre…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lucero-Gonzalez v. Kline

2:20-cv-00901 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

On May 8, 2020, five prisoners with high-risk medical conditions held at the Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex (CAFCC)—a private facility run by CoreCivic—filed this action in suit the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and private attorneys, the plaintiffs brought this putative class action as a group habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, an injun…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Adams & Boyle v. Slatery

3:15-cv-00705 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 25, 2015

Challenge to Tennessee Abortion Restrictions This case was filed on June 25, 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee by three reproductive healthcare providers on behalf of their patients. The complaint alleged that several state restrictions on abortion providers violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The named defendants were the state Attorney General, the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health, and the Pres…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Prince v. Aiellos

2:09-cv-05429 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2009

On October 23, 2009, an individual plaintiff filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Hackensack Police Department, Hackensack Municipal Court, Bergen County Jail in the City of Hackensack, Bergen County Municipal Court, and Bergen County Prosecutor. The plaintiff, representing himself pro se, sought compensatory and punitive damages plus special damages for future legal fees. The plaintiff specifically claimed that the defenda…