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Housing Rights Initiative v. Compass, Inc.

1:21-cv-02221 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about property owners and brokers in New York City who allegedly refused to rent residential property to holders of Housing Choice Vouchers (which subsidized housing for low-income families). On March 15, 2021, the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. HRI sued eighty eight property owners and brokers under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and city and state laws that barred source of income discrimination. Repr…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Hope Medical Group for Women v. LeBlanc

2:06-cv-09176 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2006

Closed Date: March 3, 2008

This is a lawsuit challenging a Louisiana abortion restriction requiring that all abortion providers be OB/GYNs. After the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners tried to discipline a non-obstetrician-gynecologist physician for performing a first-trimester abortion, Hope Medical Group for Women—a medical clinic that provides abortions—and the non-OB/GYN physician disciplined for providing abortions at the clinic brought this suit in the Eastern District of Louisiana on October 26, 2006. Rep…
EDUCATION
Department of Education OCR Title IX Investigation of University of Southern California

09-13-2294 | No Court

Filed Date: 2013

Case Ongoing

The United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) received a complaint in 2013 filed by University of Southern California (USC) students on behalf of themselves and other students, which alleged that USC failed to respond promptly and equitably to reports of sexual harassment or sexual violence in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (09-13-2294). A subsequent complaint (09-16-2128) was filed by a male student against the university in 2016. The compl…
EDUCATION
Department of Education OCR Title IX Investigation of Pitzer College

09-12-2151 | No Court

Filed Date: March 19, 2012

Closed Date: 2014

On March 19, 2012, the United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) received a complaint alleging that the defendant had violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Specifically, the complaint alleged that Pitzer College failed to adequately respond to an internal complaint that a male student had sexually assaulted the complainant. The complaint also alleged that the college did not adequately respond when the student complained of retaliation by other studen…
CHILD WELFARE
Kevin S. v. Jacobson

1:18-cv-00896 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2018

Closed Date: March 26, 2020

This is a case about administration of child welfare. Plaintiffs were private citizens of New Mexico and non-profit organizations Disability Rights New Mexico and Native American Disability Law Center, bringing a class action complaint against Secretary for the Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) Monique Jacobson and Secretary for the Human Services Department (HSD) Brent Earnest. The action was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico on December 28, 2018. …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Harper v. Professional Probation Services Inc.

2:17-cv-01791 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the constitutionality of a private probation company’s extension of probationers’ sentences pursuant to a contract with the Gardendale Municipal Court. On October 23, 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed this lawsuit in the Northern District of Alabama on behalf of probationers who could not pay their fines immediately. They sued Professional Probation Services (PPS), the city of Gardendale, and the municipal court judge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs sought …
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
DOJ v. Amtrak

1:20-cv-03503 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

On December 2, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint against the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak”) for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12165, by failing to make its intercity rail stations accessible to individuals with disabilities by July 26, 2020, as required by the Act. The government sought to enjoin Amtrak from discriminating on the basis of disability and require the company to comply with the ADA. The …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Whorley v. Northam

3:20-cv-00255 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on April 8, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, amidst the outbreak of COVID-19 that occurred early in 2020. The plaintiffs were twenty-seven people incarcerated in Virginia state prisons. Represented by the ACLU Foundation of Virginia (ACLU-VA) and private counsel, they sued Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran, the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections Harold Clarke, …
POLICING
Chicago "Street Sweeps" Out-of-Court Settlement

NA | No Court

Filed Date: 2015

Case Ongoing

The City of Chicago adopted a new policy in January 2015 after the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH), the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the law firm of Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym challenged the city's practice of confiscating and destroying personal property, including sleeping bags and medicine. For information on how the settlement came to be, and how it is being monitored, see these two articles. Under the 2015 policy, the City of Chicago agreed to (…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Kneisser v. McInerney

1:15-cv-07043 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2015

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)This is a case about a college student who was jailed for failing to pay a littering fine. In 2014, the plaintiff was fined $239 for throwing a cigarette butt from the window of his car. Unable to pay the fine by the due date, the plaintiff appeared before Burlington County Municipal Court Judge McInerney to plead guilty and request a payment plan or community service. Judge McInerney told the plaintiff to call someone who could help him p…