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EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

1:14-cv-14176 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d against Harvard College. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that Harvard's admissions policy discriminated against Asian American applicants. Specifically, the plainti…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
A.R. v. Dudek

0:12-cv-60460 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 13, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 13, 2012, plaintiffs—medically fragile children or children who need skilled care services—filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration and Department of Health. After consolidating two similar cases in Spring 2012, plaintiffs' amended complaint sought relief under the ADA, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Medicaid Act, on behalf of two subclasses: children who live at home but are …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Lewis v. City of Chicago

1:98-cv-05596 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 1998

Closed Date: 2013

On September 9, 1998, a group of African American firefighter applicants in Chicago filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, proceeding under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 against the City of Chicago. Represented by several lawyers, including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Chicago Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, the plaintiffs sought injunctive, compensatory and declaratory relief, alleging that a 199…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Florida Pediatric Society v. Levine

1:05-cv-23037 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2005

Case Ongoing

On November 28, 2005, the Florida Pediatric Society, the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Florida Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Inc., and certain named individual children who were eligible to receive medical and dental care through Medicaid filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from private practice and from the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, brought this…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Shuford v. Alabama State Board of Education

2:89-cv-00196 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 1989

Closed Date: June 8, 2005

On February 24, 1989 a black male employee of a school in Alabama's postsecondary education system filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama claiming that he had been discriminated on the basis of race. He specifically alleged that he had been denied promotions because of his race. Subsequent complaints alleged that the defendant discriminated on the basis of race in hiring, promotions, and demotions by engaging in practices that were based on no…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Schaefer v. Tannian

2:73-cv-39943 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 10, 1973

Closed Date: 1998

On April 10, 1973, female police officers filed a complaint under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, against their superior officers and the Detroit Police Department in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs contended that their separate divisions and unequal pay were illegal under Title VII. Before they brought the suit, female police officers were restricted to working only in the "Women's Division," which was its ow…