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PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
NDN Collective v. Retsel Corporation

5:22-cv-05027 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: March 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a hotel and bar that plaintiffs alleged refused to serve Native Americans, committing intentional race discrimination.  On March 23, 2022, an individual who is Native American and NDN Collective, a non-profit that educates, funds, and organizes people "engaged in Native American issues," filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. Their case sought class action status for a class of all Native Americans who have or will visit the Grand Ga…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Murray v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-03571 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 7, 2020

Closed Date: June 7, 2020

This is a case about a Republican candidate’s failed attempt to appear on the ballot to oppose U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the 2020 election cycle. On March 14, 2020, in response to the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the Governor of New York issued an executive order which shortened the deadline for candidates to collect petition signatures to appear on a party’s primary ballot from April 2 to March 17, and reduced the number of required signatures from 5% to 1.5% of registered …
POLICING
White v. Sacramento Police Department

2:21-cv-02211 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case was filed by racial justice protesters for alleged abuse during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and continued violence during the January 2021 protests at the California State Capitol, where the plaintiffs alleged white supremacist and pro-police groups were allowed to demonstrate unharmed while the police inflicted violence on residents who showed up to support Black lives. On November 30, 2021, an individual woman filed this lawsuit in the Eastern District of California. The…
POLICING
United States of America v. County of Los Angeles

2:15-cv-03174 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 28, 2015

Case Ongoing

The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division initiated a civil investigation of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department on August 19, 2011. The investigation focused on allegations of unconstitutional conduct by deputies at two stations located in the Antelope Valley cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, California. The DOJ proceeded under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,42 U.S.C. § 14141 (Section 14141), and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,42 U.S.C. § 2000d…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Taylor v. Milwaukee Elections Commission

2:20-cv-00545 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: May 12, 2020

On March 22, 2020, the Milwaukee Election Commission suspended early voting for the April 7, 2020, Wisconsin general election in response to safety concerns regarding election workers exposure to COVID-19. In response, Black city and state official candidates in Milwaukee, WI, along with Justice Wisconsin, Inc. ("the plaintiffs"), brought this lawsuit against the Milwaukee and Wisconsin Election Commissions ("the defendants") in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Henry v. Wymyslo

1:14-cv-00129 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2014

Closed Date: 2015

On February 10, 2014, four same-sex couples and one of the couples' adopted children filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that Ohio's ban on same sex marriage and the manner in which that ban was applied were unconstitutional under the Due Process and Full Faith and Credit Clauses of the United States Constitution. Specifically, several of the couples were expecting children …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rogers v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:16-cv-02733 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2016

Case Ongoing

On November 3, 2016, a woman incarcerated in the custody of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued the State of Colorado, the Colorado Department of Corrections, and the Warden of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking damages. She claimed that defendants violated the ADA as well as her constitutional rights to du…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Brian B. v. Stalder

3:98-cv-00886 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1998

Closed Date: May 2, 2006

In this case, private plaintiffs filed a civil rights class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana to challenge conditions of confinement at the Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth (Tallulah). Plaintiffs were represented by the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Youth Law Center. The Amended Complaint, filed in October 1998, alleged claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; the Individuals with Disabilities Education Ac…