Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:
6 cases, 6 documents
Ordered by
POLICING
United States v. City of New Orleans

2:12-cv-01924 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

In 2010, New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu invited the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to review civil rights issues at the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), and propose any necessary reforms. The DOJ opened the requested investigation on May 15, 2010, pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on March 17, 2011, the DO…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education

3:65-cv-01974 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 1965

Closed Date: April 15, 2002

This summary seeks to describe how the Swann litigation influenced the desegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS). For a more thorough analysis of this litigation and policy challenge through the present day, see Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte (Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, et al. eds. 2015). For a complete discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Swann, see Bernard Schwartz, Swann's Way: The School Busing Case and the Supreme Court …
EDUCATION
Jamie S. v. Milwaukee Public Schools

2:01-cv-00928 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2001

Closed Date: 2013

On September 13, 2001, seven students with disabilities, by and through their parents, filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin against the Milwaukee Public School System ("MPS") and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction ("DPI"). The Plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from Disability Rights Wisconsin, claimed that MPS violated their right to a free, appropriate public education as guaranteed by the Individuals with Disa…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Friendly House v. Whiting

2:10-cv-01061 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 17, 2010

On May 17, 2010, a group of organizations and individuals filed this lawsuit against the sheriff and district attorney of each of the fifteen counties in Arizona, in their official capacities, in the U.S. District Court of Arizona. The plaintiff, represented by organizations such as the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center along with private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the recently enacted S.B. 1070 was a violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S.…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Stewart v. Rubin

1:90-cv-02841 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 1990

Closed Date: 2009

On November 16, 1990, African-American agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) sued the agency, then a branch of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, in the United District Court for the District of Columbia (Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth) alleging racial discrimination in hiring, promotion, benefits, and other aspects of employment. Several parties moved to intervene, including the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the A.T.F. Hispanic Agents' Association, the National Assoc…