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JAIL CONDITIONS
Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center or the Erie County Correctional Facility, r…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baxley v. Jividen

3:18-cv-01526 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: The plaintiffs in this West Virginia jail conditions class-action case filed an emergency motion for relief on March 25, 2020, seeking an order to require the defendants to develop, disclose, and implement a plan to take appropriate actions to protect the plaintiff class from COVID-19. The court denied the motion because it found that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim. On December 18, 2018, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at West Virginia'…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. University of Denver

1:16-cv-02471 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 30, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado The EEOC sued the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, on behalf of seven full-time law professors, under the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. It alleged that the University discriminated against the complainants by paying them substantially less than male full-tim…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Savage v. Pocomoke City

1:16-cv-00201 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2016

Case Ongoing

This case is about racial discrimination in employment and retaliation for employees filing Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) complaints. Three Pocomoke City, Maryland police officers brought this lawsuit on January 20, 2016 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against Pocomoke City, the Pocomoke City Police Department, the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, the Department of Maryland State Police, and a number of individuals associated with these organization…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri v. Brownback

2:11-cv-02357 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: June 27, 2011

Closed Date: May 9, 2014

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)In September 2011, the ACLU and the ACLU of Kansas and Western-Missouri filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, against a Kansas state law restricting Title X funding allegedly in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee and United States of America v. Macon County School Board (M.D. Ala. cases)

3:70-cv-00846 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1970

This Clearinghouse entry discusses the post 1970 proceedings in Lee v. Macon County, a seminal Alabama desegregation case. That case originated in the Middle District of Alabama and was transferred to a three-judge district court which supervised school desegregation across the state. However, after 1970, the statewide case was dissolved and desegregation cases in individual school districts were sent to the judicial districts that encompassed them. This Clearinghouse entry describes the Lee li…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia

59-04138 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: 1959

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America and the Vulcan Society v. City of New York

1:07-cv-02067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 21, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed a lawsuit on behalf of United States of America against the City of New York under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division. On July 17, 2007, the Vulcan Society--an organization of Black firefighters, and three individuals, filed an Intervenor's Complaint. Plaintiffs sued to enforce the right of Black and Hispanic candidates to be treated fairly in t…
EDUCATION
Pedersen v. South Dakota High Sch.

4:00-cv-04113 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: June 9, 2000

Closed Date: 2005

On June 9, 2000, three parents, as guardians ad litem of their minor daughters, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against the South Dakota High School Activities Association. The students represented in the suit were all members of volleyball teams at high schools within the Association. The plaintiffs alleged that the Association violated Title IX of the Education Amendments and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by requiring girls voll…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Case Ongoing

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…