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DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Oklahoma's Mental Health Service System and Oklahoma City's Response to Mental Health Crises

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On November 17, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they would be opening an investigation into the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, and the Oklahoma City Police Department (OKCPD). The investigation intended to look into claims that Oklahoma failed to provide community-based mental health services for citizens of Oklahoma county. The investigation also included an appraisal of Oklahoma City’s responses to behavioral health crises, including the 911 response practices and poli…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Mount Vernon Police Department

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On December 3, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, along with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced a pattern and practice investigation into the Mount Vernon Police Department (MVPD). The investigation would assess whether the MVPD engaged in practices of discriminatory policing. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 gave the investigators the authority to bring the inquiry. The act prohibited state and local governments …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans Jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…

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POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. State of Mississippi

3:70-cv-04706 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 9, 1970

Fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 88% of Mississippi’s black students still attended all-black schools. Ubiquitous “freedom of choice” plans let white children transfer to predominantly white schools. Individual lawsuits and threats of funding cuts from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare proved unable to effect wholesale desegregation. But in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of choice plan in Holmes County, Mississippi, was unconstitutional and …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Smith v. Husted

2:16-cv-00212 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: March 8, 2016

Closed Date: April 29, 2016

March 8, 2016, 17 year old minors, their parents, and Bernie Inc. (collectively "the plaintiffs") sued the Ohio Secretary of State on the grounds that certain minors aged 17 were not permitted to vote in a primary, as they were aged 17 on primary election day, despite turning 18 before the general election day. The Ohio Revised Code provides pursuant to the Threshold Voter Law that a 17-year-old who will be 18 by the time of the next general election may vote in a ‘primary election’. The Thresh…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Jabbour v. Merrill

1:20-cv-00034 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Closed Date: March 25, 2020

On January 21, 2020, one individual plaintiff and National Defense Committee (“NDC”) filed a suit against the Alabama Secretary of State and the Mobile County Board of Registrars, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to redress defendants’ alleged violations of the Fourteenth Amendment and the First Amendment due to defendants’ use of ranked choice ballots. This action challenged Alabama’s Instant Runoff Primary Election scheme, or the Ranked Choice Voting scheme (“RCV Scheme”) for voters …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mondy v. Messina

2:17-cv-00104 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 14, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 25, 2017

This case is about whether plaintiffs have standing to bring--and federal courts have jurisdiction to hear--claims regarding a city council's repeal of an initiated ordinance in alleged violation of state law. On June 14, 2017, the plaintiff filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on behalf of himself and all similarly situated citizens of the City of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sued…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Project Vote Incorporated v. Reagan

2:16-cv-01253 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 27, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 7, 2017

This is a case about access to public election records in Arizona. On April 27, 2016, a national non-profit voting rights organization called Project Vote, Inc. filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The defendants were sued in their official capacity as the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona, the County Recorder of Maricopa County, and the County Recorder of Pima County. The judge was District Judge Douglas L. Rayes. The plaintiff was represented by p…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Duncan v. Louisiana State

2:15-cv-05486 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2015

Closed Date: May 26, 2016

This was a case about alleged denial of the right to vote. On October 27, 2015, an individual sued the State of Louisiana, the Louisiana Secretary of State Office, Louisiana Secretary of State, Tangipahoa Parish Council, Tangipahoa Parish Clerk of Court Office, Tangipahoa Parish Registrar of Voters Office, and Tangipahoa Parish Registrar of Voters in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The individual asserted claims under 18 U.S.C. § 96, 42 U.S.C. § 207(a), 42 U.S.C. …