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EDUCATION
United States investigation of Columbia University

NA (Out of court) | No Court

This matter involved United States investigations of Columbia University for alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On March 3, 2025, the Trump Administration Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education, and US General Services Administration, as part of the Federal Government's Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, announced they would conduct a comprehensive review of Columbia University's federal contracts and grants in conjunction with the T…

Administrative Matter Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mirabelli v. Olson

3:23-cv-00768 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: April 27, 2023

This is a case about parental notification rules related to transgender and gender non-conforming students in schools. On April 27, 2023, two middle school teachers sued the Escondido Union School District (EUSD), the California State Board of Education, and various associated officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California before Judge Roger T. Benitez, challenging the school district policy AR 5145.3. The challenged policy requires teachers and staff to r…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Edmond v. City of Chicago

1:17-cv-04858 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 29, 2017

Closed Date: July 8, 2024

This case concerns allegations of race discrimination against employees of the City of Chicago. It was filed on June 29, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and assigned to District Judge Joan B. Gottschall. Seven Black employees from the Department of Water Management, represented by private counsel, sued the city and several officials. Plaintiffs alleged a hostile work environment and discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. Black employee…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Tesla, Inc.

4:23-cv-04984 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2023

This case regards alleged racial harassment at a Tesla manufacturing facility in California. On September 28, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of over 1,000 Black employees of the Tesla manufacturing facility in Fremont, CA. The employees alleged pervasive racial harassment since at least 2015, including epithets, stereotyping, and imagery and graffiti. They also allegedly experi…

Case Is Ongoing

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Wood v. Florida Department of Education

4:23-cv-00526 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2023

This lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of a Florida statute that prohibits public school teachers from sharing their personal pronouns or titles with students if those identifiers do not match the sex assigned to them at birth.  On December 13, 2023, three Florida public school teachers filed suit against the Florida Department of Education, the State Board of Education, multiple Florida state officials in their official capacities, and the teachers’ respective employers: Hillsborough Co…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Grider v. Lucas

4:25-cv-00546 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2025

Closed Date: March 5, 2025

In this case, a supervisory attorney-advisor at the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (“EEOC”) alleged that her EEOC supervisors discriminated against her on the basis of race and disability. The plaintiff filed suit against the EEOC on February 8, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued the Acting Chair of the EEOC, in their official capacity. The case was assigned to District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal. The plaintiff alleged that the EEOC…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. National Wholesale Liquidators, Inc.

2:07-cv-02507 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 21, 2007

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 2011

On June 21, 2007, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought this suit against National Wholesale Liquidators, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant, a New York corporation that operated warehouse-style discount stores, engaged in several employment practices that violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, EEOC said that one of the defendant’s store managers subjected em…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

POLICING
California v. Stockton Unified School District

34-2019-00248766 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2019

Closed Date: April 11, 2024

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On January 22, 2019, the California Department of Justice ("DOJ") entered into a settlement agreement with the Stockton Unified School District ("District") and its police department to address system-wide violations of civil and constitutional rights of African American and Latino students and students with disabilities. The agreement resulted from a comprehensive investigation conducted by the DOJ into the law enforcement referral pract…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Diggs v. Mici

4:22-cv-40003 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2022

This is a case about prison officials who allegedly inflicted weeks of unprovoked violence on prisoners, particularly prisoners of color. On January 10, 2022, nine Black and Latino men incarcerated at Massachusetts' Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs sued state officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the Eighth Amendmen…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Groff v. DeJoy

5:19-cv-01879 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 1, 2019

This case is about an employer’s obligation to accommodate an employee’s religious practice under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A United States Postal Service (USPS) worker who identified as an Evangelical Christian refused to work on Sundays in order to observe the “Lord’s Day.” He requested a complete exemption from Sunday work, which USPS did not grant. The agency instead allowed the postal worker to ask coworkers to swap shifts. The postal worker’s supervisors repeatedly discip…