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DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

3:21-cv-08735 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

On November 10, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Uber in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by charging wait time fees for passengers that needed more than two minutes to get into a car. There are various disability-based reasons for which a passenger needs more than two minutes, such as needing time to break down a wheelchair and put it in the car. The DOJ sought (1) a declaratory judgment decla…
EDUCATION
Beal v. Midlothian Independent School District

3:01-cv-00746 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 18, 2001

Closed Date: Jan. 22, 2003

Parents, as next of friend of female students of Midlothian Public School District, filed suit against the school district under Title IX of the Education Amendment, 20 U.S.C. § 1681, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, on April 18, 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The plaintiffs alleged that the school district had violated Title IX by discriminating against female students as to the sports and opportunities offered. Specifically, the…
EDUCATION
Paton v. New Mexico Highlands University

1:97-cv-01360 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1997

Closed Date: 2012

On October 21, 1997, several coaches and female student athletes filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico against New Mexico Highlands University. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, claimed that NMHU violated state law, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Title IX by denying them equitable access to athletic scholarship funding and other benefits including equipment, supplies, locker rooms, travel, coaching, publicity, and faciliti…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Wallace v. Powell/H.T. v. Ciavarella

3:09-cv-00286 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2009

Case Ongoing

This case grew out of the criminal misconduct of two state court juvenile judges who sent hundreds of children to juvenile detention facilities because of bribes paid by the companies that ran those detention facilities. On February 13, 2009, the plaintiffs--children who had been adjudicated delinquent found to have violated their probation and parents of those children--brought this class action lawsuit against the judges. The plaintiffs, represented by multiple firms, sought damages against t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings

3:20-cv-02731 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action lawsuit brought on April 20, 2020, by seven individuals in immigration detention at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility (MVDF) and the Yuba County Jail (YCJ), seeking immediate release from unsafe conditions of the jail in light of the global coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the request for TRO on April 29, requiring ICE to provide information and access to detainees to facilitate a process of considering bail requests. On June 9, the court granted …
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Columbus Consolidated City/County Government (Muscogee County)

4:99-cv-00132 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 1999

Case Ongoing

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Muscogee County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Muscogee County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, grievance system, exercise, access to reading materials, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, suicide prevention, general sanitation, fire safety,…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Texas (DOJ CRIPA lawsuit involving many State Schools)

1:09-cv-00490 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: June 26, 2009

Case Ongoing

On December 11, 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division sent a "findings letter" to the governor of Texas, advising him of the results of its investigation into conditions and practices at the Lubbock State School ("LSS"), which housed people with developmental disabilites. The DOJ advised that its investigation found that conditions and services at LSS substantially departed from generally accepted standards of care.On December 1, 2008, the DOJ issued additional "findings …
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. State of Hawaii [Oahu Correctional Center]

1:08-cv-00585 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2008

Case Ongoing

On June 16, 2005, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, acting pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, commenced an investigation into mental health care conditions and practices at the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Based on its investigation, the DOJ concluded that the conditions and practices at the Jail violated the constitutional rights of convicted inmates and pre-trial detainees. By letter d…
POLICING
Alsaada v. City of Columbus

2:20-cv-03431 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

Thirteen demonstrators protesting George Floyd's murder filed this lawsuit on July 8, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the city of Columbus, Ohio and various law enforcement officers in their official and individual capacities for the alleged use of excessive force. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that police officers used pepper spray and rubber bullets, among other crowd-control methods,…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Goldin v. Restrepo

1:20-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: June 16, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2020

This case arose out of the 2020 election in Rhode Island. On June 16, 2020, candidates for the Rhode Island Senate ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island alleging that Rhode Island state law that required potential candidates to engage in-person solicitation and receipt of signatures and an in-person witness violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs sued…