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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. H.T. Hackney Co.

5:03-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2003

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2005

In February 2003, the Louisville Area Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against H.T. Hackney Company in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We do not have a copy of the complaint; therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. After the date for jury trial had been set, the parties settled the lawsuit in June 2003 through a consent decree. The two-year de…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas LULAC v. Abbott

1:20-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2020

Closed Date: March 24, 2021

This is a case about access to absentee ballot drop-off locations in Texas during the 2020 election, which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. On October 1, 2020, the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the League of Women Voters of Texas, and two individuals who vote in Texas filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The defendants included Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Secretary of State Ruth Hughs, and the elections officials of fo…
POLICING
United States v. City of Cleveland

1:15-cv-01046 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 25, 2015

Case Ongoing

In March 2013, following a series of highly-publicized use-of-force incidents involving the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP), the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, that focused on the CDP's use of force, including deadly force. This was the second investigation conducted by the DOJ into the CDP's practices in a little over ten years, as the DOJ had prev…
POLICING
Chang v. County of Siskiyou

2:22-cv-01378 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

On August 3, 2022, four plaintiffs seeking to represent the thousands of Hmong and Asian residents of Siskiyou County, California, filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. They were represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus, and private counsel. Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes was assigned to the case.  The plaintiffs sued Siskiyou County and its sheriff under …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC.

2:10-cv-01283 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2010

Closed Date: May 8, 2017

On September 29, 2010, a class of male employees 50 years of age or older filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), 29 U.S.C. § 621, against Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for lost compensation in front pay and back pay, attorneys' fees and costs, declaratory and injunctive relief, lost pension benefits, and liquidated damages, claimin…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.
POLICING
Taylor v. City of Saginaw

1:17-cv-11067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 5, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2022

This is the first case to allege that “chalking” tires––the practice of marking a legally parked vehicle to track how long it has been parked––to enforce parking time limits is a Fourth Amendment violation. On April 5, 2017, an individual plaintiff filed an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Saginaw and its parking enforcement officer in her individual capacity. The plaintiff sought injunctive and declaratory relief …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
English v. Chester County

2:10-cv-00244 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2010

Closed Date: July 20, 2010

This is a case about African American voters registered in the Lower Oxford East precinct in Chester County, Pennsylvania who had to wait as long as seven hours in line to vote -- far longer than voters elsewhere in the County. On January 20, 2010, Five African American voters filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Chester County, the Chester County Board of Elections, three county commissioners, and the director of Chester County Voter Servi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP v. City of Jacksonville

3:22-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is about racial gerrymandering. Ten Black residents of Jacksonville, Florida, with four nonprofit organizations whose missions include advocating for social and economic justice for marginalized communities—the Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP, the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, the Northeast Chapter of the ACLU of Florida, and Florida Rising Together—filed a complaint against the city of Jacksonville, Florida, on May 3, 2022, for racially motivated gerrymandering. Represented b…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Dirar v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.

2:22-cv-01076 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2022

Case Ongoing

Two Black Muslim men were removed from an Alaska Airlines flight after a fellow passenger raised complaints about one of the men, who had been  texting in Arabic. Represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the plaintiffs filed this case on August 2, 2022. The plaintiffs filed suit against Alaska Airlines in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs alleged that Alaska Airlines discriminated against them in violation of 42 U.S.C…