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Bondy v. Sullivan

3:90-cv-00223 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 1990

Closed Date: 1993

On January 22, 1990, plaintiff Herbert Bondy, a Jew who fled his native Austria in 1938 to avoid Nazi prosecution, filed a class action in the U.S. District Court California Northern District, seeking to prevent the government from including Austrian reparations payments made to victims of Nazi persecution in calculating his eligibility for Supplemental Security Income. Plaintiff was represented by attorneys with the National Senior Citizens Law Center and Legal Assistance to the Elderly Inc.T…
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In re Descendants of African Slavery

01491 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2002

Closed Date: April 7, 2011

In this action, plaintiffs who were formerly enslaved African-Americans or descendants of formerly enslaved African-Americans sued various corporate defendants for unjustly profiting off of the institution of slavery before, during, and after the Civil War. Beginning in 2002, plaintiffs filed three actions in the Eastern District of New York and one action in the the District of New Jersey. On October, 25, 2002, a panel of judges ordered these four cases, along with five pending tag-along actio…
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Flinn v. City of Evanston

1:24-cv-04269 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 23, 2024

This is a lawsuit challenging an Evanston, Illinois program that offers reparations to Black Americans for past housing discrimination.  On May 23, 2024, six individuals filed this putative class action lawsuit against the City of Evanston in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. They challenged the city's Restorative Housing Program, an initiative to compensate Black residents for housing discrimination they or their ancestors faced between 1919 and 1969 via $25,000 pa…
REPARATIONS
Randle v. Tulsa

CV-2020-1179 | Oklahoma state trial court

Filed Date: 2020

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] In September 2020, eleven plaintiffs, including three of the last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, sued the City of Tulsa and other defendants, seeking reparations and accountability for the massacre and continuing harms.
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Alexander v. Governor of St of OK

4:03-cv-00133 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2003

Closed Date: March 19, 2004

[This summary is temporary while we research the case further.] This case is concerned with reparations for the descendants and survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. In February 2003, survivors and descendants filed suit against the City of Tulsa, the Tulsa Police Department, and the State of Oklahoma in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The case was dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired.  
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Abdullah v. United States

3:02-cv-01030 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: June 14, 2002

Closed Date: March 31, 2003

[This summary is temporary while we research the case further.] In this lawsuit, a private citizen sued the United States, seeking reparations for slavery. The U.S. successfully moved to dismiss the complaint under the doctrine of sovereign immunity.  
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Obadele v. United States

02-00195 | U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Filed Date: 2001

[This summary is temporary while we research the case further.] In this lawsuits, three African-American plaintiffs sought compensation from the U.S. government for their ancestors' suffering. Plaintiffs sued under the Tucker Act and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the latter of which was created to compensate individuals affected by the federal government's internment of Japanese-American citizens and residents during World War II.  After their claims were denied by the Office of Redress Admi…
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Sampson v. Federal Republic of Germany

96-06242 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: 1996

[This summary is temporary while we research the case further.] A Holocaust survivor brought suit against the German government and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany seeking additional reparation payments. 
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Levy v. United States

4:12-cv-01297 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 2012

Closed Date: April 25, 2012

The case is about seeking reparations for descendants of enslaved Black individuals. On March 14, 2012, plaintiff filed a pro se lawsuit against the U.S. government in the Northern District of California. Plaintiff, a private citizen and lawyer, filed on behalf of all descendants of enslaved Black people in the U.S. Plaintiff sought ten trillion dollars in damages, to be divided up between all descendants, as well as an official apology from the U.S. government.  On  April 25, 2012, Magistrate …
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Hohri v. United States

83-00750 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: 1983

[This summary is temporary while we research the case further.] In 1983, plaintiffs brought suit against the United States, alleging that the federal government's policy of excluding and interning Japanese Americans during World War II was wrongful and seeking damages. Plaintiffs comprised of nineteen individuals who had been interned or were descendants of individuals who had been interned.  After Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which provided reparations to Japanese Americans…