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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sheetz, Inc.

3:24-cv-00231 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 17, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the alleged refusal of Sheetz, a regional convenience store chain, to hire persons based on their criminal records, thereby disparately impacting Black, Native American, and multiracial applicants. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found that 14.5% of Black applicants did not pass Sheetz’ screening and were thus rejected by Sheetz. This rate was 13% for Native applicants and 13.5% for multiracial applicants—but less than 8% for white applicants. The EEOC al…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Rajaram v. Meta Platforms, Inc.

3:22-cv-02920 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 17, 2022

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit arose after five American citizens applied for jobs at Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.). Meta did not hire them. The applicants believed Meta rejected them because Meta discriminated against American citizens when hiring employees. So the applicants sued Meta. Background: H-1B Visas and United States of America v. Facebook An H-1B visa is a temporary authorization that allows a foreign national to enter and work in the United States. H-1B visas are g…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Holt v. Payne

5:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: March 1, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of failure to accommodate the religious practices of three Muslim people incarcerated by the Arkansas Department of Corrections (“ADC”) through policies on religious services and headdresses. Represented by CAIR Legal Defense Fund, Plaintiffs filed suit on March 1, 2019, against various named ADC employees in their official and individual capacities in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The complaint alleged violations of the First Amend…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought

1:25-cv-00381 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration's endeavor to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). On February 7, 2025, Elon Musk posted, “CFPB RIP” on social media. The next day, the Acting Director of the CFPB instructed CFPB staff to “immediately” stop all work and informed the Federal Reserve that the CFPB would not take any additional funding for its operations in the next quarter. This action happened in the larger context of the Trump Administration’s effort to disman…
POLICING
Wilkins v. City of Chicago

1:23-cv-04072 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 26, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) alleged pattern and practice of race-based and discriminatory police practices in traffic stops conducted since 2016. On June 26, 2023, five plaintiffs who had been repeatedly stopped by CPD officers, on what they claimed was limited suspicion, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs alleged unlawful race and national origin discrimination in violation of …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Alexander v. Hall

4:20-cv-00021 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2025

On February 10, 2020, fourteen prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Press reports connected this sue to entertainment mogul Jay-Z, who had the month before written an open letter to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant decrying the conditions at state correctional facilities. The plaintiffs claimed that state officials were aware of and deliberately indi…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
M.H. v. Jeppesen

1:22-cv-00409 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2022

Case Ongoing

In 2022, plaintiffs, transgender and nonbinary Idahoans on Medicaid, sued the state, alleging Idaho Medicaid had an unwritten policy of denying or delaying gender-affirming care.  On September 29, 2022, two private transgender Medicaid plaintiffs (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), represented by Idaho Legal Aid Services, sued the Director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (“DDHW”), the Medical Director of the Idaho Division of Medicaid (“MDI”), and the Idaho Department of Health and Welf…
CHILD WELFARE
L.J. v. Massinga

1:84-cv-04409 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the actions of twenty-one state and city officials, caseworkers, and supervisors who administered Maryland's federally-funded foster care program in Baltimore City, Maryland. The class action, filed on December 5, 1984, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (Baltimore), alleged that the defendants' administration of the foster program subjected the plaintiffs to physical and sexual abuse as well as medical neglect. They sought broad interim and permanent i…
NATIONAL SECURITY
First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. National Security Agency

4:13-cv-03287 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 2013

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2023

On September 10, 2013, organizations, associations, and advocacy groups, their staffs, and their members who subscribed to major American telecommunication companies filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the National Security Agency ("NSA"), the Department of Justice, and the United States of America. The plaintiffs, represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and private counsel, sought an injunction permanently enjoining the United…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
American Association of University Professors v. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-02429 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s punitive measures against Columbia University for its asserted failure to address antisemitism on campus, including the cancellation of $400 million in federal research funding and demands for sweeping programmatic and structural changes. On March 25, 2025, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), two labor organizations for teachers and professors, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. Distr…