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LABOR RIGHTS
Geiser v. The Salvation Army

1:22-cv-01968 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case entry covers three separate class action lawsuits – Geiser v. Salvation Army, Clancy v. Salvation Army, and Alvear v. Salvation Army – that were filed concurrently and share allegations. These cases concern the Salvation Army's alleged violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act because they required persons in rehabilitation programs to engage in "work therapy" as a condition of their admission to those programs. On March 9, 2022, the plaintiffs in each of the cases, represented by pri…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Bird v. Barr

1:19-cv-01581 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 29, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 29, 2019, a group of female Intelligence Analyst and Agent Trainees at the FBI’s Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and a class of more than 125 female Agent and Analyst Trainees who had been subjected to similar gender-based harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of the United States in his official capacity under Title VII of the…
POLICING
United States v. City of Ferguson

4:16-cv-00180 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a majority-Black city in the St. Louis metro area. The shooting sparked nationwide protests and attention to police use of force and police relations Black residents. The Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, brought the case in front of a grand jury to determine whether there was probable cause to indict Wilson for his actions. But on Novem…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
State of Texas v. Yellen

2:21-cv-00079 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 3, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case regards Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi’s opposition to limitations on a state’s discretionary use of funds appropriated to the states as part of the American Rescue Plan. On May 3, 2021, three states filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, with Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk presiding. Each state’s attorney general sued the U.S. Department of Treasury for violating their sovereign tax authority by usurping their ability to decide how to tax. Repre…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Coca v. Dodge City, Kansas, City of

6:22-cv-01274 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

In this case, two Latino voters claimed that the at-large election system in Dodge City, Kansas, keeps Latine candidates out of office. The Dodge City Commission uses an at-large election system that allows citizens to vote for any candidate on the five-seat commission. The current method selects winners based on the total number of votes they receive instead of selecting single winners from geographic districts. The plaintiffs, Latino citizens who are registered voters in Dodge City, alleged t…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Waskul v. Washtenaw Community Mental Health.

2:16-cv-10936 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 16, 2016

Case Ongoing

A class action lawsuit was filed on March 15, 2016 by Disability Rights Michigan, Legal Services of South-Central Michigan, and The National Center for Law and Economic Justice in the Federal District Court for the District of Michigan  on behalf of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the Washtenaw County Community Advocacy program, challenging Washtenaw County, Michigan’s Community Mental Health Authority’s (WCCMH) 2015 modification to its Medicaid waiver budgeting…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Indiana Protection & Advocacy Services v. Indiana Family and Social Services Admininistration

1:06-cv-01816 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2006

Closed Date: May 27, 2010

This case considered whether a psychiatric hospital could refuse or ignore a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) request for death investigation records of a former hospital patient who did not have a guardian, conservator, or legal representative. On December 22, 2006, Indiana P&A Services (Indiana P&A), filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Indiana P&A filed this lawsuit against Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, as well the Indiana…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Honeyfund.com, Inc. v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about legislation impacting private employers' ability to offer diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) trainings. This case was filed on June 22, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis; the Florida attorney general; the senior chair, the vice chair, nine commissioners of the Florida Commission on Human Relations. The plaintiffs, (1) private employers with DEI programs in Florida and (2) DEI training consultants,…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Moussouris v. Microsoft Corporation

2:15-cv-01483 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2015

Closed Date: Nov. 20, 2020

On September 16, 2015, the plaintiff, a former female technical employee of Microsoft, filed a class action lawsuit in the Western District of Washington against Microsoft Corporation. The plaintiff, represented by Outten & Golden LLP, sued the defendant under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000(e), and state law. The plaintiff alleged that as a result of the defendant’s policies, patterns, and practices, female technical employees received less compensation and were pro…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Fontano v. Godinez

3:12-cv-03042 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2012

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2016

A formerly incarcerated person filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois on February 9, 2012. The plaintiff brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), claiming violations of the First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and Uptown People's Law Center, the plaintiff sought monetary damages. Judge Sue E. Myercough was assigned to the case. The c…