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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. ROSS STORES

2:06-cv-02873 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 30, 2006

Closed Date: Jan. 3, 2007

On June 30, 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit in the Philadelphia U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Ross Stores, Inc. on behalf of a Russian employee. The EEOC alleged that Ross Stores had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000e et. seq.) by discriminating against the employee on the basis of her national origin. According to the EEOC, the employee was denied the pay increase she was entitled to re…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. United Fence Company & Wor-Mac, Inc.

1:02-cv-06589 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 16, 2002

Closed Date: Dec. 19, 2003

In September 2002, the Chicago District Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against United Fence Company and Wor-Mar, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging discrimination on the basis of race, African American, and natural origin, Hispanic, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged the defendants subjected the complainants, Hispanic employees, to a hostile work environment by reprimanding them for…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rivera v. NIBCO, Inc.

1:99-cv-06443 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1999

Closed Date: 2011

On October 1, 1999, twenty-five Latina and Southeast Asian female immigrants once employed as factory workers by NIBCO, Inc. in Fresno, California brought suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California alleging national origin discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VII"), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act ("FEHA") Cal. Gov't Code § 12940, et. seq. Plaintiffs specifically allege that thei…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Los Angeles Unified School District

2:98-cv-06154 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 30, 1998

Closed Date: 2003

On July 30, 1998, a group of parents filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of their minor children in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the Los Angeles Unified School District's implementation of Proposition 227, a state initiative restricting use of bilingual education in public schools to teach students that were limited in English proficiency. Plaintiffs alleged that Proposition 227 (titled "English Language Education for Immigrant Children") viola…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Trujillo-Hernandez v. Farrell

1:72-cv-00086 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 28, 1972

Closed Date: May 19, 1975

In the early 1970s, an alien filed a petition for naturalization and class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, challenging the constitutionality of the English language requirement in the naturalization statute, 8 U.S.C.S. § 1423(1). A three-judge district court panel (Judge Reynaldo G. Garza) denied the petition and dismissed the case. The petitioner appealed.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed, holding that petitioner's direct attack on …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights v. Deal

1:11-cv-01804 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 2, 2011

Closed Date: 2013

On June 2, 2011, Plaintiffs filed a class action against the Governor of Georgia and other state officials under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. Plaintiffs are nonprofit organizations, business associations, and individuals. Plaintiffs challenged Georgia's comprehensive immigration law, House Bill 87 ("HB87"). The organizational Plaintiffs claimed that HB87 would cause them to divert resources from their traditional m…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Telleria v. Cooley

96-2220JWB | Alabama state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 31, 1996

Closed Date: 1999

On December 31, 1996, attorneys with the Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit on pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in Madison County, Alabama against the Madison County, Alabama Tax Assessor for his refusal to grant homestead tax exemptions to plaintiffs Julio and Carmen Telleria because they did not speak English. Plaintiffs, who were U.S. Citizens of Hispanic descent, were told by the Tax Assessor that they had to recite an oral oath in English in order to obtain the homestead tax exemptions. I…
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Atonio v. Wards Cove Packing Co., Inc.

2:74-cv-00145 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: March 20, 1974

Closed Date: Dec. 26, 2001

This case predates PACER, so we do not have a docket. Information from the case was found in court opinions.After unsuccessfully pursuing administrative resolution of employment discrimination charges with the EEOC, a group of nonwhite, U.S. citizen cannery workers from Alaska filed this putative class action in 1974 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Summarized in findings of fact in 1983, 1983 WL 651.) The plaint…
EDUCATION
Flores v. Arizona

4:92-cv-00596 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 1992

Closed Date: Aug. 7, 2015

This school funding case was filed on August 20, 1992 in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs, several students and their parents, claimed that the state failed to adequately fund programs for English language learners (ELLs). In 2000, the district court found that state's method and level of funding ELL programs was "arbitrary and capricious" and ordered that the level of state funding for ELL programs bear a rational relationship to the cost of those …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Chamber of Commerce of the United States v. Whiting

2:07-cv-02496 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2007

Closed Date: May 26, 2011

This case is the reincarnation of a previously filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the Legal Arizona Workers Act (the "Act"). The District Court (Judge Wake) dismissed that suit, Arizona Contractors Assoc., Inc. v. Napolitano, on December 7, 2007 for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The court found that there was no justiciable case or controversy against the Governor or Attorney General, as they did not have the power to enforce the challenged Act. The court noted that only …