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EDUCATION
Colin v. Orange Unified School District

8:99-cv-01461 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 1999

Closed Date: Sept. 28, 2000

This is a case about the right of public high school students in California to form a gay-straight alliance and be recognized as a student club. Students in the Orange Unified School District Board applied to form the alliance, and the Board deferred action on that application for months. During this period, the students did not have permission to meet. After several months, the Board formally denied the application, insisting that it would only reconsider the application if the group changed i…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Sinobia N. Brinkley v. District of Columbia

1:21-cv-01537 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 7, 2021

Case Ongoing

On June 7, 2021, a Black woman police officer filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the District and the Metropolitan Police Department. She alleged that the Department discriminated against her on the basis of race, gender, age, and disability status. Plaintiff was represented by private counsel. In her complaint, she alleged that, starting in 2017, she experienced a pervasive culture of hyper-scrutiny, obscenity, hyper-sexuality, and unreasonable a…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network v. City of Los Angeles

2:07-cv-03072 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 9, 2007

Closed Date: June 24, 2013

On May 9, 2007 organizations and individuals present at a May 1st immigration rally in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, CA filed suit against the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, included the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network, the Korean Immigrant Workers Alliance, the Coalition for Humane …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Coalition on Homelessness v. City and County of San Francisco

4:22-cv-05502 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge to San Francisco’s policies regarding homelessness. The plaintiffs, several homeless individuals and an advocacy organization allege that San Francisco has enacted anti-homelessness ordinances and statutes that criminalize the unhoused population of the city, despite lack of access to shelter beds. The plaintiffs claim that in its efforts to “solve” the homelessness crisis, the City did not invest in adequate shelter to meet the needs of its unhoused population. Instead…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States of America v. Wells Fargo Bank

1:12-cv-01150 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 12, 2012

Case Ongoing

On July 12, 2012, the United States, on behalf of over 34,000 African-American and Hispanic borrowers, filed a lawsuit under the Fair Housing and Equal Credit Opportunity Acts in the United States District Court, District of Columbia. Plaintiff, represented by attorneys from the United States Department of Justice, asked the court for injunctive and monetary relief, claiming that the discriminatory lending practices of Defendant adversely affected African American and Hispanic borrowers. Specif…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Donald J. Trump for President v. Cegavske

2:20-cv-01445 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2020

This is a 2020 case about voting by mail during pandemics and other disasters in Nevada. Nevada passed Assembly Bill 4 (AB4) on August 2, 2020. AB4 allowed areas impacted by a pandemic or other disaster to expand their use of mail-in and absentee voting, effective in time for the November 2020 election. AB4 Sections 11 and 12 also authorized particular numbers of polling places depending on county populations. On August 4, 2020, plaintiffs Donald J. Trump for President, the Republican National …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Housing Authority of Ashland Alabama

1:20-cv-01905 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

On December 1, 2020, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the Ashland, Alabama Housing Authority, alleging that it had engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of race at multiple low-income public housing communities in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The complaint alleged that the Ashland Housing Authority, and three property development companies who were the private own…
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
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 …