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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Scott v. Tom Schedler

2:11-cv-00926 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 19, 2011

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2013

This is a case about voting access for individuals who registered through public assistance agencies in Louisiana.  On April 19, 2011, a Louisiana voter and the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP brought this action for injunctive relief under the National Voter Registration Act against the Defendants Louisiana Secretary of State, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, and the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services. The plaintiffs alleged that Defendants engaged in sys…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Betances v. Fischer

1:11-cv-03200 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 11, 2011

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 2011, three individuals given extrajudicial sentences of post-release supervision filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The named defendants were the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) and the New York State Division of Parole (DOP). They claimed that the defendants administratively assigned sentences of post-release supervision (PRS) and that only a judge could impose an additio…
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…
POLICING
Perez v. City of Chicago

1:13-cv-04531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 20, 2013

Case Ongoing

On June 20, 2013, a man who had been arrested and detained in Chicago’s Homan Square detention center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued the City of Chicago and Chicago police officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by a private firm, the plaintiff asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages. The plaintiff claimed that the City of Chicago and the individual police officers violated his Fourth and Fourteenth Amen…
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

Case Ongoing

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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
M.O.C.H.A. Society, Inc. v. City of Buffalo

1:98-cv-00099 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 1998

Closed Date: Aug. 9, 2013

This class-action lawsuit began on February 10, 1998, when a nonprofit organization called Men of Color Helping All Society, Inc. (MOCHA), along with two other plaintiffs (the President of MOCHA and an individual person), filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts as the representatives of African American Firefighters employed by the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Fire Department (Defendants). Later on, many individual white firefighters intervened in the l…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Sutton v. Hopkins County, KY

4:03-cv-00003 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2003

Closed Date: 2013

On January 9, 2003, four persons represented by attorneys from several law firms in Louisville, Kentucky, filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. The plaintiffs challenged the strip search policy of the Hopkins County, Kentucky, jail. The plaintiffs alleged that they were searched pursuant to a blanket strip search policy of the jail which required all pretrial detainees transferred from…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Bahr

2:08-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 17, 2008

Closed Date: 2011

On July 17, 2008, the United State filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District Court of Alabama under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. §§3601-3619, against Defendants, rental property owners and their property manager. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged the Defendants discriminated in their rental business against women. Specifically, DOJ claimed that beginning in 2005 or earlier, the defendants' property manager subjected actual and prospective female tenant…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Cremin v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.

1:96-cv-03773 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 21, 1996

Closed Date: 1998

On June 21, 1996, an individual employee filed a lawsuit on behalf of herself and other similarly situated employees against her employer, Merrill Lynch, the New York Stock Exchange, and the National Association of Securities Dealers in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff alleged gender discrimination and pregnancy discrimination in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, and the Equal Pay Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Rio Bravo International, Inc.

8:99-cv-01371 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 11, 1999

Closed Date: Nov. 14, 2005

In June 1999, the Tampa Area Office and Miami District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Rio Bravo International, Inc., Innovative Restaurant Concepts, Inc., and Applebee's International (doing business as Rio Bravo Cantina) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendants maintained a hostile work envir…