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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hicks and Young v. Cutrer

66-00225 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 1966

Closed Date: Sept. 11, 1967

This case challenged the enforcement of an ordinance which prohibited persons from holding a parade, march or procession within the City of Bogalusa, Louisiana between the hours of 6:00 pm and 8:00 am. The plaintiff sought declaratory and permanent injunctive relief against enforcement of the ordinance pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201 and § 2202 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and § 1983.  On August 23, 1966, the plaintiff, a Bogalusa resident of black race and an officer of the Bogalusa Voters League, filed …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
State of Missouri v. Starbucks Corp.

4:25-cv-00165 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

This is a case about the legality of companies' diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. On February 10, 2025, the state of Missouri filed this lawsuit against Starbucks in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Missouri argued that various aspects of Starbucks' DEI program were discriminatory in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and Missouri state law. Missouri sought a declaratory judgment that Starbucks…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Duncan v. City of Portland

23CV39824 | Oregon state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2023

In 2021, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 3115, which required that any city or county in Oregon that “regulates the acts of sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and dry outdoors on public property that is open to the public must be objectively reasonable as to time, place and manner with regard to persons experiencing homelessness.” Although House Bill 3115 was passed on July 1, 2021, it was not operative until July 1, 2023, when it became Oregon Revised Statute (“ORS”) 195.530. Th…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Village of Hinsdale

1:20-cv-06959 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 2020

On November 24, 2020, the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the Village of Hinsdale, Illinois. The lawsuit alleged that the Village discriminated on the basis of disability in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) when it prohibited a sober living facility from operating and refused to consider  the facility’s request for a …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Kennedy v. City of Zanesville

2:03-cv-01047 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2003

Closed Date: April 2, 2009

On November 19, 2003, a group of Black residents of the City of Zanesville, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and the Fair Housing Advocates Association filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the city of Zanesville ("City"), Washington Township ("Township"), Washington Township Trustees, and Muskingum County Commissioners ("County"). The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Cowan and US v. Bolivar County Board of Education

4:65-cv-00031 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 25, 1965

On July 25, 1965, students of the Bolivar County Board of Education filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi under Title IV and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The lawsuit was against the Bolivar County Board of Education; plaintiffs sought preliminary and permanent injunctions to end the compulsory biracial school system. Various plans were submitted until, on July 22, 1969, Judge Keady entered an Order requiring that the dual system be d…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States v. Covington County School District

2:66-cv-02148 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 1966

Closed Date: March 3, 2021

This was a school desegregation case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi; it started December 12, 1966 and ended in 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) brought this suit to integrate schools in Covington County, Mississippi, arguing successfully that Covington County’s freedom of choice plan perpetuated a segregated school system. In its early years, this matter was consolidated with twenty-four other school desegregation cases in the Southern District of …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States v. Morehouse Parish School Board

3:69-cv-14429 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 1969

Closed Date: March 4, 2013

On February 10, 1969, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The DOJ sued the Morehouse Parish School Board to enjoin the operation of a dual (segregated) school system in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. The district court (Judge Benjamin C. Dawkins Jr.) ordered the School Board to file a desegregation plan on or before July 5, 1969. However, the case was soon swept up in ongoing Fifth Circuit litigation about…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Henry v. Clarksdale Municipal Separate School District

3:64-cv-00028 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 22, 1964

This school desegregation case began in 1964 and remains open as of 2021. The complaint was filed on 4/22/1964. It involves the efforts to desegregate the Clarksdale Municipal Separate School District, now known as the Clarksdale Municipal School District (CMSD). Plaintiffs, Black students and their families, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi and argued that CMSD's geographic zoning system perpetuated a dual school system. The plaintiffs were …
PUBLIC HOUSING
Walker v. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

3:85-cv-01210 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 25, 1985

On June 25, 1985, the plaintiffs, several thousand black clients of low-income housing programs in the West Dallas Projects, brought this class action lawsuit against nine Dallas metropolitan suburbs, the Dallas Housing Authority ("DHA"), and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD"). The plaintiffs, represented by North Central Texas Legal Services, brought the action against the defendants for violations of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 3604. The case was filed in the U.S…