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EDUCATION
B. P. J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education

2:21-cv-00316 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

On May 26, 2021, the plaintiff, an 11-year-old transgender girl and student in Harrison County, West Virginia filed this lawsuit through her mother in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.  Represented by the ACLU of West Virginia, with attorneys from the ACLU, Lambda Legal and Cooley LLP, the plaintiff challenged an April 2021 state statute, H.B. 3293, that banned girls who are transgender from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity. …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Housing Rights Initiative v. Compass, Inc.

1:21-cv-02221 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about property owners and brokers in New York City who allegedly refused to rent residential property to holders of Housing Choice Vouchers (which subsidized housing for low-income families). On March 15, 2021, the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. HRI sued eighty eight property owners and brokers under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and city and state laws that barred source of income discrimination. Repr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rouser v. White

2:93-cv-00767 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 7, 1993

Case Ongoing

On May 7, 1993, a Wiccan prisoner incarcerated by the California Department of Corrections since 1979 filed a lawsuit against prison officials in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and California state law. The plaintiff, represented pro se and sometimes by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the prison officials had violated his right to fr…
EDUCATION
Communities Equity v. Michigan High School Athletic Ass'n

1:98-cv-00479 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 26, 1998

Closed Date: 2010

On June 26, 1998, a class of high school girls in Michigan filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan under §1983, alleging that the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) violated provisions of Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Represented by private counsel and by the National Women's Law Center and Equity Legal, the plaintiffs contended that MHSAA refused to authorize additional sports for high school gi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rosiles-Perez v. Superior Forestry Service, Inc.

1:06-cv-00006 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

On January 25, 2006, a group of migrant forestry workers admitted to the U.S. under the H-2B foreign worker program filed suit against their employer, Superior Forestry Service, Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et. seq., and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act ("AWPA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801 et seq. Plaintiffs alleged that Superior and its officers failed to pay plain…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Hall v. Best Buy Co.

0:04-cv-04812 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

On November 17, 2004, employees of Best Buy Co. filed a complaint against their employer in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. The plaintiffs alleged that Best Buy had discriminated against employees on the basis of their age, and that such action constituted a violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA") of 1967, 29 US.C. § 621. Specifically, the plaintiffs contended that Best Buy had engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination whereby th…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
VASZLAVIK v. STORAGE TEK CORP

1:95-cv-02525 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 1995

Closed Date: 2000

On October 2, 1995, former employees of Storage Tek Corporation filed a lawsuit under ERISA, the ADEA, and the ADA, against Storage Tek in the United States District Court, District of Colorado. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive, declaratory, and compensatory relief, claiming that they were wrongfully discharged. Specifically, plaintiffs claimed that they were treated less favorably than younger employees as a result of a company-wide strategy to r…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Caldwell v. FEDEX Corporation

3:03-cv-02878 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 19, 2003

Closed Date: 2011

On June 19, 2003, an individual employee filed a lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, against the FedEx Corporation in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. On November 13, 2003, the case was consolidated with a case of the same nature, Satchell v. FedEx Express, which had been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Cal…
POLICING
Davis v. City of New York

1:10-cv-00699 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2010

Case Ongoing

This is one of four ongoing cases challenging the constitutionality of the New York Police Department's "Stop and Frisk" program. See: Floyd v. City of New York; Daniels v. City of New York; and Ligon v. City of New York. On January 28, 2010, the plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the City of New York and the New York City Housing Authority. The plaintiffs included Black and Latino New York City Housing Authority t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Jama v. United States Immigration and Natural Service

2:97-cv-03093 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 16, 1997

Closed Date: Aug. 9, 2010

The Jama lawsuit is a companion case to the class action, Brown v. Esmor Correctional Services, Inc., No. 98-1282(DRD) and Joaquin DaSilva v. Esmor Correctional Services Incorporated, et al., No. 96-3755(DRD), which were also pending in to U.S. District Court District of New Jersey. All three cases, Jama, Brown and DaSilva were filed on behalf of undocumented aliens who were detained at a facility that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (''INS'') maintained in Elizabeth, New Jersey pend…