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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Keyes v. School District No. 1

1:69-cv-01499 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 1969

Closed Date: 1997

Keyes--the Denver school desegregation case--was the first northern school desegregation case to reach the Supreme Court, and one of the only cases where the Supreme Court identified segregation in northern schools. The Supreme Court’s 1973 opinion was influential in defining “intent” in de facto segregation. The case lasted for decades, so this summary is necessarily partial. Prior to the filing of this lawsuit on November 30, 1969, the Denver School Board adopted three resolutions between Jan…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Project B.A.S.I.C. v. Kemp

1:89-00248 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: April 1, 1989

In April 1989, Project B.A.S.I.C. ("BASIC"), a Rhode Island tenant-advocacy organization, filed a lawsuit against the State of Rhode Island under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the United States Housing Act, the federal Fair Housing Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by race-based mismanagement of public housing units in the city of Providence, and they asked the…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lester v. Commissioner of Philadelphia Prisons

2:87-05893 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 1988

In 1988, inmates confined at the Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center, a jail, represented by private counsel, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against prison officials. Plaintiffs alleged that there were unwarranted acts of violence against inmates by staff.The parties reached a settlement which was approved by the court in June 1988. Under the terms of the agreement, the Philadelphia Prison Society was to investigate any allegations of the …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Al-Jundi v. Mancusi

1:75-cv-00132 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 1974

Closed Date: Aug. 28, 2000

Background This case is part of the Clearinghouse's special collection on the Attica Uprising. In September of 1971, incarcerated people in New York's Attica Correctional Facility took control of the prison and took several staff members hostage. The uprising ended when state police violently stormed the prison, killing over 40 incarcerated people and staff members. Attica was one of the most significant events in the American prisoners' rights movement and drew public attention to poor conditi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Fang v. Saldana

2:17-cv-02092 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 30, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case brought by noncitizen students facing immigration enforcement about the fallout from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting operation. The noncitizens had entered the U.S. on student visas, and had enrolled in the University of Northern New Jersey (UNNJ) to maintain their student visa status after graduating from other U.S. universities and beginning work. As it turned out, in April 2016 ICE revealed that the UNNJ was a fake university it created to investigate and pros…
EDUCATION
Graham v. University of Michigan

2:21-cv-11168 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the University of Michigan’s sexual assault policies. On May 20, 2021, a current University of Michigan student filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff sued the University of Michigan (U of M) and the Regents of the University of Michigan under Title IX (20 U.S.C. § 1681). Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought certification of a proposed class of “All current U of M students” and an …
POLICING
Blanchard v. City of Memphis

2:17-cv-02120 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

On February 22, 2017, four plaintiffs filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, against the City of Memphis, Tennessee for violating their First Amendment rights. The plaintiffs all found themselves on a “black list” created by the Memphis Police Department. They argued that the police department created the “black list,” which consisted of 81 individuals, by recording video protests of City Hall. The black list appeared to denote the individuals who the …
EDUCATION
Leandro v. North Carolina

95-CVS-1158 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: May 24, 1994

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the right to “sound basic education” under North Carolina’s constitution. In 1994, the school boards for five impoverished, underperforming counties, a student in one of these counties, and that student’s mother filed this lawsuit in North Carolina state court. The plaintiffs sued the State of North Carolina and the North Carolina State Board of Education for declaratory relief and injunctive relief. Invoking two provisions of the state constitution, the plaintiffs argued t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Busbee v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

1:20-cv-02401 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2020

Case Ongoing

This wrongful death suit arose when correctional officers pepper sprayed an incarcerated person who suffered from chronic asthma. After the officers pepper sprayed him, the decedent suffered from an asthma attack and eventually passed away from asphyxiation. On December 22, 2020, the decedent’s mother filed this lawsuit on behalf of his estate in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections—as well as, in their in…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jerry M. v. District of Columbia

85-01519 | District of Columbia state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 1985

Case Ongoing

On March 1, 1985, a class of juveniles confined at juvenile detention centers operated by the District of Columbia ("the District") filed a lawsuit against the District under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. They alleged unconstitutional conditions of confinement in violation of the juveniles' Fifth and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiffs specifically challenged the conditions of confinement at Cedar Knoll Youth Center and Oak Hill Youth Center, both in Laur…