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EDUCATION
United States investigation of Columbia University

NA (Out of court) | No Court

This matter involved United States investigations of Columbia University for alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On March 3, 2025, the Trump Administration Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education, and US General Services Administration, as part of the Federal Government's Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, announced they would conduct a comprehensive review of Columbia University's federal contracts and grants in conjunction with the T…

Administrative Matter Ongoing

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Ragoonath v. Swissport USA, Inc.

1:15-cv-01356 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 17, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 18, 2015

This is an employment disabilities case. On March 17, 2015 a private plaintiff employee filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against his employer alleging that his employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and New York City Human Rights Law for failing to provide a reasonable accommodation and retaliation for request a reasonable accommodation.  Plaintiff had suffered a workplace injury to his back in 2014, and while he was clear…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Emanuel Displaced Persons Association 2 v. City of Portland

3:22-cv-01896 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Dec. 8, 2022

Closed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research this case.] On December 8, 2022, twenty-six Black survivors and descendants of families whose homes were destroyed by defendants brought suit against the City of Portland. Starting in the late 1950s and into the early 1970s, the City of Portland (the City), Prosper Portland (formerly known as the Portland Development Commission or PDC), and Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Health Center (Emanuel) acted in concert to destroy a predominately Black community…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Paine v. IKEA Holding US, Inc.

2:19-cv-00723 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On February 21, 2019, a 48 year old IKEA employee, Brandon Paine, brought suit against IKEA Holdings US, Inc. (IKEA) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In his complaint, Plaintiff alleged that IKEA promoted four young employees for a position it previously denied the Plaintiff, despite having Plaintiff fill the position on an interim basis. IKEA allegedly demoted Plaintiff several months later, decreasing his …

Settled: Case Closed

JAIL CONDITIONS
Monroe v. Precythe

2:23-cv-04129 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 27, 2023

Closed Date: July 18, 2025

[This summary is in progress while we research the case.] This case is about a transgender inmate who died of HIV complications while being placed in solitary confinement by the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League Of Women Voters of South Dakota v. Noem

4:22-cv-04085 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: June 28, 2022

Closed Date: Jan. 27, 2023

This case is about the League of Women Voters of South Dakota and the League of Women Voters of the United States (collectively, the “League”) and two private plaintiffs asserting that South Dakota Senate Bill 180 (“SB180”) would limit petition circulators who contact voters of proposed ballots measures to residents of South Dakota who have lived in the state for more than 30 days, severely restricting voters’ access to ballot measures and voter-engagement organizations’ ability to engage in po…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Edmond v. City of Chicago

1:17-cv-04858 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 29, 2017

Closed Date: July 8, 2024

This case concerns allegations of race discrimination against employees of the City of Chicago. It was filed on June 29, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and assigned to District Judge Joan B. Gottschall. Seven Black employees from the Department of Water Management, represented by private counsel, sued the city and several officials. Plaintiffs alleged a hostile work environment and discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. Black employee…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

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
Stein v. Cortes

2:16-cv-06287 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2016

Closed Date: April 29, 2020

On December 5, 2016, plaintiffs, who consisted of the Green Party presidential candidate and a Pennsylvania voter that had voted in the 2016 presidential election (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”), filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation of Pennsylvania (collectively, the “Defendants”).  Both Defendants worked for the Pennsylvania Department of St…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

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