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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Liddell v. Board of Education for the City of St. Louis

4:72-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 1972

Case Ongoing

Background On February 18, 1972, five African-American parents and their minor children filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They sued the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis and a number of its officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, claiming that the defendants operated city schools in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the plai…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Florida State Conference Of Branches and Youth Units Of the NAACP v. Lee

4:21-cv-00187 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges Florida's Senate Bill 90 (SB 90), which limited certain voting-related practices such as drop boxes, third-party ballot return, vote-by-mail applications, and activities in the vicinity of polling places. The Florida State Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights Florida, and Common Cause brought this suit on May 6, 2021, against the Secretary of State of Florida in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida under the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the Amer…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nunez and United States v. City of New York

1:11-cv-05845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

Case Ongoing

On August 18, 2011, a class of prisoners filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment against the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC). The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and damages, claiming that DOC officers routinely inflicted wanton physical violence on prisoners and deliberately falsified records to p…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Stone v. Trump

1:17-cv-02459 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2017

Case Ongoing

On August 28, 2017, six transgender individuals currently serving in the United States military filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the President of the United States and various Department of Defense officials, arguing that they had violated the plaintiffs' Fifth Amendment rights, in particular the Equal Protection clause and the Due Process clause. In an amended complaint, the plaintiffs also brought a cause of action under …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Terry D. v. Rader & Oklahoma

5:78-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 1978

Closed Date: 1998

On January 4, 1978, Plaintiffs, represented by Legal Aid of Western Oklahoma, Inc., the National Juvenile Law Center and the Public Defender of Oklahoma County, filed this § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court Western District of Oklahoma challenging the conditions of confinement at the juvenile treatment centers of the State of Oklahoma. Plaintiffs sought injunctive and declaratory relief, as well as class certification. The Complaint alleged that plaintiffs were subjected …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Fields v. McDonald

1:89-cv-01624 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 1, 1989

Closed Date: 1997

This class action was filed on behalf of impoverished parents and legal guardians who have lost, are at risk of losing, or cannot regain custody of their children from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) because they are homeless or unable to provide food or shelter for their children. Plaintiffs filed their lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services in 1989 in the U.C. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiffs all…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless v. Barry

1:93-cv-00691 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 5, 1993

Closed Date: March 4, 1997

In 1984, voters in Washington, DC (The District) passed the Right to Overnight Shelter Act (ROSA) which guaranteed to all homeless people in the District the right to adequate overnight shelter. Later the City Council passed a law that created an emergency shelter program for eligible families; this program was approved by and partially funded by the federal government via the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. The city council later amended these laws to explicitly state that an …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Salazar v. San Juan County Detention Center

1:15-cv-00417 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: May 15, 2015

On May 15, 2015, the mother of a deceased prison inmate filed this lawsuit against the San Juan County Detention Center, the San Juan County Regional Medical Center, and San Juan County in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought damages and declaratory relief under 42 U.S.C. §1983, alleging wrongful death and violations of the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Cain v. New Orleans

2:15-cv-04479 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 2015

Case Ongoing

On September 17, 2015, indigent former criminal defendants filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the City of New Orleans, the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court (OPCDC), the court’s judges, judicial administrators, and the city’s sheriff department, all under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Civil Rights Corps and private counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Dube v. Eagle USA Airfreight, Inc.

4:01-cv-00900 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 13, 2001

Closed Date: May 29, 2007

On May 12, 2000, several employees of Eagle Global Logistics filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs sued Eagle under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 2000e), the Equal Pay Act (29 U.S.C. § 206(d)), and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq). The plaintiffs, represented by a combination of public interest and private attorneys, sought declaratory and injunctive relief requiring Eagl…