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CHILD WELFARE
Marisol A. v. Giuliani

1:95-cv-10533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1995

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2018

This federal class action was brought by children in the custody of the New York City Child Welfare Administration ("CWA"), and children who, while not in the custody of CWA, are or will be at risk of abuse or neglect and whose status is known or should be known to CWA. It was filed on December 13, 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights Inc., Lawyers for Children, and private counsel, sought class certification, …
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Los Angeles

2:00-cv-11769 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2000

Closed Date: 2013

On November 3, 2000, the United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California under 42 U.S.C. §14141, alleging that the City of Los Angeles, its Board of Police Commissioners and its Police Department (collectively the "LAPD") deprived individuals of their constitutional rights through the use of excessive force, false arrests and improper searches and seizures. The suit was an offshoot of a lengthy internal investigation of the LAPD's Rampart Divisi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zavala v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

2:03-cv-05309 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2003

Closed Date: 2011

On November 10, 2003, a group of 17 undocumented immigrant workers, who provided janitorial services at Wal-Mart stores nationwide, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq.; the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. §§201 et seq.; and conspiracy to violate civil rights under 42 U.S.C. §1985(3). Plaint…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Torres v. Goddard

2:06-cv-02482 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 2006

Closed Date: July 17, 2018

This case is one of a pair of lawsuits filed against the Arizona Attorney General to challenge his practice of seizing money wire transferred to Mexico through Western Union. In an attempt to curtail the smuggling of undocumented immigrants by trafficking organizations (known as "coyotes") from Mexico to Arizona, the Arizona Attorney General had obtained warrants and seized millions of dollars of money that was wire transferred to Mexico. The Attorney General focused on amounts over $500, which…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Breen v. Mineta

1:05-cv-00654 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 31, 2005

On March 31, 2005, several current or former employees of the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") who were forty years old or older filed this age discrimination lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, against the FAA and the U.S. Department of Transportation ("DOT"). The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA") and alleged that the FAA and DOT discriminated against them by targeting their jobs for outs…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Reynolds v. Giuliani

1:98-cv-08877 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1998

Closed Date: July 22, 2011

New York City implemented an overhaul to its welfare system in order to meet federal and state welfare requirements, which were revised in the mid-1990s. Under the city’s program, “income support centers” (locations where public assistance benefits were applied for and distributed, sometimes during the initial visit by an applicant) were to be converted to “job centers.” These job centers put greater emphasis on making sure those receiving public assistance obtained employment from the private …
PUBLIC HOUSING
Christian Community Action v. Cisneros

3:91-cv-00296 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: June 3, 1991

Closed Date: Jan. 28, 2008

On June 3, 1991, plaintiffs brought this action under the Fair Housing Act. Plaintiffs alleged a housing demolition and replacement plan for the former Elm Haven high-rises in New Haven was being carried out in violation of the Fair Housing Act and HUD siting requirements, as the local housing authority began to locate replacement housing in segregated neighborhoods. The Court approved the parties' settlement agreement in July 1995. The settlement consisted of two primary elements: 1) a scatte…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Hohider v. UPS

2:04-cv-00363 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: March 10, 2004

Closed Date: 2010

On March 22, 2001, an employee of the package-delivery company United Parcel Service, Inc. ("UPS") filed an individual claim of discrimination in an administrative complaint against his employer, with the Pennsylvania Human Resources Commission (PHRC) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He charged UPS with unlawful discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq., alleging that UPS failed to provide him with reasonable accommodation …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Dominguez v. Schwarzenegger

4:09-cv-02306 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 26, 2009

Closed Date: 2014

On May 26, 2009, recipients of In-Home Service Support (IHSS) care filed a lawsuit under the Supremacy Clause against Arnold Schwarzenegger and other government officials in the Northern District Court of California. The Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive and declaratory relief, claiming that in enacting Section 12306. 1 (d)(6), the California Legislature failed to consider the required factors of efficiency, economy, quality of care, and access to servic…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Edward Rose & Sons, Inc.

3:01-cv-00040 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2001

Closed Date: 2010

On January 18, 2001, the United States filed a complaint under the Fair Housing Act and the American with Disabilities Act against the Edward Rose Construction, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The plaintiff sought injunctive, declaratory, and monetary relief. On September 3, 2002, the United States initiated a related lawsuit against the same defendants in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The defendants were develo…