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FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
U.S. v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company

2:90-cv-00759 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: July 27, 1990

Closed Date: 2000

Plaintiffs, the NAACP and African-American homeowners in Milwaukee, filed suit in 1990 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, alleging that Defendant-Insurance Company had systemically discriminated against minority homeowners in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq., and the Wisconsin Open Housing Law, Wis. Stat. 101.22. Plaintiffs alleged that the Defendant refused to extend homeowners insurance or extended such insurance on less favorable …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
McDiarmid v. Economy Fire & Casualty Co.

3:81-00010 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 1981

Plaintiffs alleged that Defendant-insurance company engaged in redlining when denying their application for homeowners' insurance. Plaintiffs filed suit the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, alleging that insurance redlining violated the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601-3619. On August 1, 1984, U.S. District Court Judge Rice denied the Defendant's motion to dismiss, finding that a denial of insurance based on the race of a homeowner could constitute a violation of the FH…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Pierce v. Metropolitan Property and Liability Insurance

3:82-00044 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 1982

Plaintiff-homeowners brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio under federal civil rights statutes, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1982, and the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601-3619. Plaintiffs alleged that defendant-insurance company cancelled their policy because of the racial composition of the neighborhood.On November 23, 1983, U.S. District Court Judge Walter H. Rice granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment as to one claim under the FHA and held …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Dunn v. Midwestern Indemnity Mid-American Fire and Casualty Company

3:78-00105 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 4, 1978

Plaintiffs were black homeowners in a predominantly black neighborhood of Cincinnati. They purchased insurance from Defendants--an insurance company and its local affiliate--in 1955. After defendants terminated coverage for their neighborhood in 1977, Plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, alleging that the Defendants had terminated insurance coverage based on the racial composition of Plaintiffs' neighborhood, in violation of the Fair Housing Act (F…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Housing Opportunities Made Equal a/k/a HOME v. Nationwide Insurance

No. LB-2704-4 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: 1996

Closed Date: 2000

This lawsuit concerned the practice of redlining, under which businesses refuse to offer services, or offer services at unreasonably high charge, in areas populated by minorities, which are deemed to be “high-risk” locations. In the U.S., redlining has often made it difficult for residents of those areas to take out bank loans and get insurance. In 1994, several fair-housing advocacy groups, including the Toledo Fair Housing Center(TFHC), Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) of Cincinnati, M…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
National Federation of the Blind v. Office of Personnel Management

1:19-cv-06249 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

On September 19, 2019, the National Federation of the Blind and a individual plaintiff who is blind and is a former federal employee filed suit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the director of OPM and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to ensure the website for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program (BC BS FEP) was accessible to blind individuals, in violation of Section 508 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitati…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri v. Praeger

2:11-cv-02462 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2011

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2013

This is a case challenging a Kansas law that prohibited insurance companies from including coverage for abortion in their comprehensive plans. On August 16, 2011, the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Kansas Insurance Commissioner. Represented by attorneys from the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri as well as the national ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, the ACLU sought declarator…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Toomey v. State of Arizona

4:19-cv-00035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

On January 23, 2019, a transgender man employed as an associate professor at the University of Arizona filed this lawsuit against the State, the Arizona Board of Regents, and the Arizona Department of Administration in United States District Court for the District of Arizona. The State provides healthcare coverage to state employees through a plan run by the Arizona Department of Administration. Although the plan generally covers medically necessary care, it categorically denies coverage for ge…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Boyden v. Conlin

3:17-cv-00264 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 7, 2017

Closed Date: March 26, 2019

On April 7, 2017, two transgender state employees represented by the ACLU of Wisconsin filed this lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The named defendants included the Department of Employee Trust Funds, State of Wisconsin Group Insurance Board, entities associated with the University of Wisconsin System, and the Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation. The plaintiffs alleged that the state’s failure to cov…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Huskey v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company

1:22-cv-07014 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2022

The plaintiffs filed this putative class-action lawsuit against State Farm in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on December 14, 2022 under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq. The lawsuit alleged that State Farm dealt with homeowners insurance claims in a racially discriminatory manner. Represented by private counsel and the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU School of Law, the plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, d…