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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…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Huntington Branch NAACP v. Town of Huntington

1:81-cv-00541 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1981

Closed Date: 1992

Plaintiffs, a class action comprised of the NAACP, minority citizens and minority citizens, community organizations in Huntington, New York filed suit against the Town of Huntington and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) over Defendants' opposition to a low-income multi-family housing development. Plaintiffs sued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleging violations of the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619, federal civil rights statutes, 42 …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Jeffrey O. v. City of Boca Raton

9:03-cv-80178 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 7, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

On March 7, 2003, a group of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts filed a lawsuit under the Fair Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Boca Raton in the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claiming that an ordinance enacted by the city unlawfully prohibited drug and alcohol recovery facilites from operat…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States v. Yonkers

1:80-cv-06761 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 1980

This is a school and housing desegregation case in Yonkers, New York. The initial complaint was filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1980, and the Yonkers branch of the NAACP intervened in 1981 to make the case a class action. After 27 years, the parties settled in 2007, with Yonkers agreeing to build 800 units of public housing in predominantly-white East and Northwest Yonkers. This case was highly contentious: in the late 1980s, Yonkers defied the court’s desegregation orders, resulting…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Andrews v. City of Monroe (La.)

3:65-cv-11297 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 1965

On August 5, 1965, students of the Monroe City School System (MCSS), on behalf of black students and parents in the City of Monroe, filed a suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana alleging racial segregation and discrimination in the operation of the schools. On September 17, 1965, a permanent injunction prohibiting the continued operation of a segregated school system was signed. After another decree was signed on February 11, 1970, the United States join…
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 …
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. Lincoln Parish School Board

3:66-cv-12071 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 8, 1966

On June 8, 1966, the United States Department of Justice filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The Department of Justice sued to enjoin the operation of a dual school system in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This lengthy case involves a number of appeals and consolidations with other school desegregation cases proceeding in parallel in the Western District of Louisiana. Obtaining a Consent Decree On July 28, 1966, the defendants’ counsel admitted that Lin…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
U.S. v. Matthews

6:04-cv-00291 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 25, 2004

Closed Date: 2018

In 1962, a lawsuit was filed against the Longview Independent School District (LISD) in the the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The suit later resulted in a 1970 desegregation order, which created attendance zones and provided for transportation of students to schools to achieve racial balancing as well as a majority-to-minority transfer program. There is very little additional information as to the details of that lawsuit or the content of the order.On June 25, …