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PRISON CONDITIONS
Plata v. Brown (Newsom) / Coleman v. Brown Three-Judge Court

4:01-cv-01351 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 5, 2001

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a longstanding case addressing health care and conditions of confinement for prisoners with mental illness, in California. In front of a three-judge court previously convened to address overcrowding, on March 25, 2020, plaintiffs sought emergency releases of particularly vulnerable prisoners in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The panel denied this motion on April 4, and plaintiffs filed another emergency motion on April 8 requesting downsizing and other emergency preve…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
U.S. v. Jefferson County Bd. of Ed./Stout v. Jefferson County Bd. of Ed.

2:65-cv-00396 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 4, 1965

Case Ongoing

This is the case in which the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals took the firm position that "freedom of choice" plans could be legally insufficient to meet the constitutional obligations of a formerly de jure segregated school system to convert from "dual" to "unitary" schools. 372 F.2d 836 (1966) (Judge John Minor Wisdom), and that the Department of Health Education and Welfare's approach to school desegregation planning was appropriate. It stood in contrast to the opposite view taken by the lo…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Ellis v. Costco

3:04-cv-03341 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2004

Closed Date: 2015

On August 17, 2004, a female employee filed this suit against Costco in United States District Court in the Northern District of California under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e, and the Fair Employment and Housing Act, California Government Code 12940. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that Costco discriminated against her and other similarly situated females. Specifically, the plai…