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Williams v. City of Beverly Hills

2:21-cv-08698 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit challenging Beverly Hills Police Department stop, search, and arrest practices as racially discriminatory.  Two individual plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit on August 30, 2021, in California Superior Court (County of Los Angeles, Case No. 218TCV31949).  Represented by private counsel, they sued the City of Beverly Hills and individual employees of the Beverly Hills Police Department (“BHPD” or the “Department”), bringing claims for violations of state law and…
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DOJ Investigation of Minneapolis Police Department

No Docket | No Court

On April 21, 2021, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). According to Garland, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, was to examine whether the City and MPD violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, …
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Leith v. County of Nassau

2:22-cv-06933 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about allegations of racial discrimination against police officers conducting traffic stops in Nassau County. On November 14, 2022, a mother, who was stopped by Nassau police with her infant son and detained for 11 hours without being charged, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff sued the Nassau County Police Department (NCPD), as well as individual officers and a New York State Trooper who were involved in her stop and…
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Wilkins v. City of Chicago

1:23-cv-04072 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 26, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) alleged pattern and practice of race-based and discriminatory police practices in traffic stops conducted since 2016. On June 26, 2023, five plaintiffs who had been repeatedly stopped by CPD officers, on what they claimed was limited suspicion, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs alleged unlawful race and national origin discrimination in violation of …
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DOJ Investigation of Liberty County Sheriff's Office

171-19-24 | No Court

This action is a memorandum of understanding resulting from a complaint received by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), alleging that the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) conducted a racially discriminatory traffic stop. On May 18, 2022, the DOJ received a complaint from Delaware State University, alleging that LCSO discriminated against its hired driver, athletic coach, and students on the basis of race when it conducted a traffic stop of a bus chartered by the school. The Uni…
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Collins v. City of Milwaukee

2:17-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, ACLU national and the ACLU of Wisconsin, along with Covington & Burling attorneys, filed this class action alleging that the Milwaukee Police Department's (MPD) stop-and-frisk policies were unconstitutional. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on February 22, 2017. The complaint alleged under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that Milwaukee's stop-and-frisk policies violated the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure protections as well as the Fourteent…
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United States v. City of Ferguson

4:16-cv-00180 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a majority-Black city in the St. Louis metro area. The shooting sparked nationwide protests and attention to police use of force and police relations Black residents. The Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, brought the case in front of a grand jury to determine whether there was probable cause to indict Wilson for his actions. But on Novem…
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Shaw v. Schulte

6:19-cv-01343 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case involved an alleged unconstitutional policy of the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) whereby they stopped motorists with out of state plates who were driving the I-70 corridor to or from the state of Colorado. On December 19, 2019, the three named plaintiffs on behalf of a class filed this lawsuit pro se in the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued the Kansas Highway Patrol superintendent and two named officers in their official capacity for the alleged unconstitutional stops and seizures…
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United States v. City of New Orleans

2:12-cv-01924 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

In 2010, New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu invited the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to review civil rights issues at the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), and propose any necessary reforms. The DOJ opened the requested investigation on May 15, 2010, pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on March 17, 2011, the DO…
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Coleman v. Brookside

2:22-cv-00423 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 4, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a class-action lawsuit challenging a small town’s practice of over-policing to generate revenue through fines and fees. On April 4, 2022, a group of individuals whom the Brookside police detained in traffic stops filed this complaint and motion for class certification in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Town of Brookside, Alabama, Jett’s Towing, and three Brookside police officers in their individual capacities, seeking redress for Fourth…