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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

5:51-cv-04316 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 1951

Closed Date: July 27, 1999

This is the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court announced in 1954 that segregated schools were inherently unequal, and in 1955 required school districts to desegregate "with all deliberate speed." It is the most famous civil rights case in American history. But it also had a specific set of plaintiffs -- schoolchildren in Topeka, Kansas -- and a specific history in its own community. This summary focuses on that history, rather than the broader setting and the Supreme Court jurisprudence. …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Rabin v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

4:16-cv-02276 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 27, 2016

Case Ongoing

On April 27, 2016, the plaintiff, a certified public accountant over the age of forty, filed this class and collective action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff sued PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq.) and California state law. The plaintiff, represented by Outten & Golden LLP, the AARP Foundation, and the Liu Law Firm, sought injunctive and monetary relief, claimi…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Price v. City of Stockton

2:02-cv-00065 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2002

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2011

On January 10, 2002 a group of low income residents and Metro Ministry filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiff sued the City of Stockton and the Stockton Redevelopment Agency under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by lawyers from the Public Interest Law Project and Western Center on Law and Poverty, alleged that the defendants shirked their duties under the Housing and Community Development Act (HCDA) and the California Community …
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, …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Herrera v. Pierce County

3:95-cv-05025 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 1995

Closed Date: 2011

On January 19, 1995, inmates at the Pierce County Detention and Corrections Center ("PCDCC") in Tacoma Washington filed a class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington against the County, and various agencies responsible for the operation of the PCDCC. Plaintiffs were represented by Columbia Legal Services, Northwest Justice Project, and private attorneys.On October 31, 1995, the parties entered into a temporary stipulated order …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Commerce

1:18-cv-02921 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 3, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

This was a legal challenge brought by an alliance of states, counties, and municipalities to the Trump Administration’s proposed addition of a question about citizenship status to the 2020 U.S. Census. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on April 3, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs alleged that the federal government, by asking census participants about their citizenship status, would deter undocumen…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Vermillion v. Levenhagen

1:15-cv-00605 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 16, 2015

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2019

On July 12, 2011, a prisoner subjected to long-term solitary confinement filed this pro se complaint against various officials at the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. He sought relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 42 U.S.C. § 1985, and 42 U.S.C. § 1986 for violations of his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights forbidding cruel and unusual punishment and violations of his substantive due process rights. The plaintiff sought dec…
POLICING
Barham v. Ramsey

1:02-cv-02283 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 2002

Closed Date: 2018

The initial plaintiffs in this case were a group of twenty-two individuals who were arrested in September 2002 at a mass political demonstration in Washington, D.C. On November 19, 2002, they filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under 28 U.S.C §§ 1331 and 1343 against a number of municipal and federal defendants, including the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Chief of Police Charles Ramsey of the Metropolitan Police Department, the District of Co…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Yarbrough v. Lockheed Martin Co.

1:00-cv-01183 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 10, 2000

Closed Date: Sept. 26, 2003

On May 10, 2000 plaintiffs, African American employees of Lockheed Martin, filed a lawsuit alleging discrimination on the basis of race pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against their employer and their union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought class certification, an order declaring liability, i…
POLICING
Handschu v. Special Services Division

1:71-cv-02203 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 18, 1971

Case Ongoing

On May 18, 1971, residents of New York City filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued an intelligence division within the New York Police Department, the Special Services Division (SSD), under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and private counsel sought class certification t…