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POLICING
U.S. v. City of Detroit, Michigan

2:03-cv-72258 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 12, 2003

Closed Date: May 31, 2016

On June 12, 2003, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Detroit. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 14141, the DOJ alleged a pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct by officers of the Detroit Police Department (DPD), including the excessive use of force, false arrest, improper warrantless searches and failure to protect detainees. Contemporaneously with the filing o…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

6:01-cv-00339 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2001

Closed Date: 2015

On August 24, 2001, the Louisville Area Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought this lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, London Division, alleging disparate treatment of female employees, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and seeking relief for a class of similarly situated female applicants who had been adversely affected. Specifically, Pla…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Young v. County of Cook

1:06-cv-00552 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2006

Closed Date: 2016

On January 30, 2006, on behalf of a female and a male plaintiff, the Chicago civil rights law firm Loevy & Loevy filed this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The complaint challenged the Cook County Sheriff's blanket policy of requiring a strip and body cavity search of every detainee who entered the Cook County Jail for booking/intake, irrespective of the nature of the charge against the detainee and of whether there…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America v. New York City Board of Education

1:96-cv-00374 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 1996

Closed Date: 2008

On January 30, 1996, the United States Department of Justice (D.O.J.) filed a complaint under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e. et seq. (Title VII) against the City of New York, Board of Education and the New York City Department of Personnel in the U.S. District Court of Eastern New York. The D.O.J. sought a preliminary injunction, alleging that the defendant had violated Title VII by discriminating against minorities in custodial hiring.Specifically, the complaint alleges that the New York City…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
McClain v. Lufkin Industries

9:97-cv-00063 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 1997

Closed Date: 2014

On February 26, 1997, African American employees of Lufkin Industries filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act against their employer. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory and equitable relief, attorneys' fees and costs, an injunction, and any other appropriate equitable relief. The plaintiffs claimed that they were discriminated against…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Tellis v. LeBlanc

5:18-cv-00541 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 19, 2018

On February 20, 2018, several individuals incarcerated in extended lockdown at the David Wade Correctional Center (DWCC), represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and Disability Rights Louisiana (the Protection and Advocacy organization in Louisiana), filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana against the DWCC, the Louisiana Department of Corrections (LDOC), and individual employees in their official capacity. The plaintiffs brought this action under the Amer…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
La Union Del Pueblo Entero v. Abbott

5:21-cv-00844 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2021

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2021, Texas passed Senate Bill 1, which in part required clerks to reject mail-in ballot applications and completed mail-in ballots if they did not include a voter identification number that matched the identification number used on an individual’s original voter registration application. La Union del Pueblo Entero filed a lawsuit arguing that this portion of the bill violated the Civil Rights Act. On August 17, 2023, the judge struck …