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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Wilder

62-cv-08695 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 1962

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 1963

This is a case about a county in Louisiana depriving citizens of the United States of the right to vote based on race or color. On February 21, 1962, the Attorney General of the United States filed suit in the Western District of Louisiana against the Registrar of Voters of Jackson Parish, the State of Louisiana, and the Citizens’ Council of Jackson Parish (as an organization and six members in their individual capacity), represented by the Attorney General of Louisiana. The U.S. Attorney Gener…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Winnice J.P. Clement

63-09334 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: 1963

Closed Date: July 14, 1964

This case is about whether state officials deprived citizens of the right to register to vote in Webster Parish, Louisiana, without distinction of race or color. On February 18, 2023, the U.S. Attorney General filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Shreveport Division. Plaintiff sued the Registrar of Voters of Webster Parish, Louisiana and the State of Louisiana under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, as amended and sought injunctions against D…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Affirmed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. State of Louisiana

63-02548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 1961

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 1972

This case is about the Louisiana Board of Registration enabling Parish Registrars to use interpretation tests, which deprived African American citizens in Louisiana of their right to vote. On December 28, 1961, the U.S. Attorney General filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the State of Louisiana, the Board of Registration of the State of Louisiana (both as an organization and three members in their individual capacities), and Hugh E. Cutrer, Jr., t…

Affirmed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
U.S. v. Texas

65-cv-01570 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: 1965

Closed Date: May 2, 1966

This is a case about a Texas policy that provided  that, in order to vote in Texas, a person must pay the State's poll tax. In 1966, the Attorney General, on behalf of the United States, filed this lawsuit against the State of Texas; the Presiding Judge for Precinct Number 239 of Travis County, Texas; the Associate Judge for Precinct Number 239 of Travis County, Texas; the mayor of Austin, Texas; the Travis County Democratic Executive Committee; the Travis County Republican Executive Committee;…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. American Samoa Government, Department of Human and Social Services

1:23-cv-00209 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: May 11, 2023

This case concerns discrimination against a transgender employee of the government of American Samoa. A transgender woman who worked for the Department of Human and Social Services of the American Samoa Government filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on January 17, 2017, alleging a hostile work environment on the basis of her gender identity, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After the EEOC investigated and attempted to resolve the cl…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. State of Illinois

1:25-cv-04811 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 1, 2025

This case, brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the second Trump Administration, challenged recent amendments to Illinois' Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act ("Privacy Act"). Under the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), enacted by Congress in 1986, employers are required to verify the identity and employment authorization of their employees. IRCA created an E-Verify program to help employers access such information. On May 5, 2025, the DOJ brought this lawsuit in the United …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States of America v. Oneida County Board of Election

6:21-cv-00793 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: July 12, 2021

Closed Date: March 31, 2025

This case is about the Oneida County Board of Elections not processing timely-filed voter registration applications before the 2020 election. New York’s voter registration deadline for the 2020 election was October 9, 2020. However, the Oneida County Board of Elections stopped processing online voter registrations—including those submitted and received electronically from the DMV—beginning on September 25, 2020. As a result, the Board failed to add approximately 2,418 applicants who registered …
EDUCATION
United States v. State of Oklahoma

6:25-cv-00265 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2025

This case challenged a provision of Oklahoma state law, Oklahoma Statute Title 70 § 3242, along with the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) policy § 3.18.6. Together, these provisions authorized noncitizens who are unlawfully present in the United States to receive in-state tuition rates at Oklahoma postsecondary institutions. The United States alleged that these provisions violate the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution because they confer in-state tuition benefits based…

Case Is Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Gordon v. Executive Office of the President

1:25-cv-02409 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 24, 2025

On July 24, 2025, three former federal employees filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Executive Office of the President, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, the Department of Justice, and the United States. Plaintiffs alleged that they were unlawfully terminated without cause or due process, notwithstanding long-standing, exemplary service in various DOJ roles, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Fifth Amendment. The plaintiffs cha…

Case Is Ongoing

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
DOJ Investigation of Alabama Department of Public Health

No docket (out of court) | No Court

In November 2021, during the Biden Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiated this investigation into whether the Alabama Department of Public Health and the Lowndes County Health Department's (ADPH) wastewater disposal and management systems in Lowndes County violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, by discriminating against African American…

Administrative Matter Closed