Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citations

Citation 1

Citation 2

Citation 3

Search for:
245 cases, 1333 documents
Ordered by
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Dallas County

2:63-cv-03064 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 26, 1963

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 1967

This case is part of the Clearinghouse Special Collection on the events and litigation leading up to and surrounding the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. This suit and United States v. McLeod precipitated after a series of events in Selma, AL, briefly described below.The Dallas County Voters League ("League") sought to encourage local black citizens to register to vote. Early in 1963, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent volunteers to Selma to assist with a voter…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee v. Macon County Bd. of Ed.

3:63-cv-00604 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1963

Closed Date: 1970

IntroductionThis case began on 1963 when a group of Black students and parents sought to desegregate the twenty public schools of Macon County, Alabama. At that time seventeen of the county’s schools were designated for Black children and three for white children. This was one of many such cases dealing with school desegregation on a school system-by-system basis. Soon after the case was filed, the court ordered the desegregation of Macon County’s schools. However, after interference from Gover…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee and United States of America v. Macon County School Board (N.D. Ala. Case)

2:70-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1970

This Clearinghouse entry discusses the post 1970 proceedings in Lee v. Macon County, a seminal Alabama desegregation case. That case originated in the Middle District of Alabama and was transferred to a three-judge district court which supervised school desegregation across the state. However, after 1970, the statewide case was dissolved and desegregation cases in individual school districts were sent to the judicial districts that encompassed them. This Clearinghouse entry describes the Lee li…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America v. State of North Carolina

5:73-cv-04476 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 1973

This case challenged North Carolina's use of a qualifying exam to certify teachers, alleging that the state's use of exam cut-off scores discriminated against Black and other minority candidates. On October 16, 1973, the United States, through the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, brought this pattern and practice lawsuit against the state of North Carolina in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The Justice Department alleged that the North Carolina …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. McKeithen

3:71-cv-00098 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: March 26, 1971

Closed Date: May 2, 2006

This is one of a collection of § 1983 inmate cases filed in Louisiana federal courts to challenge the operation and conditions of confinement in the Louisiana prison system and in parish and city jails through Louisiana. These cases have worked their way through the federal courts over the last four decades and are part of this collection, located at PC-LA, JC-LA and JI-LA.In this case, four Louisiana prison inmates filed a civil rights lawsuit on March 26, 1971, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ruiz v. Estelle

4:78-cv-00987 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 1, 1972

Closed Date: 2002

On 06/01/1978, David Ruiz, a state prisoner in Texas, filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against officials of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asked for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the conditions of his confinement violated his constitutional rights. In the spring of 1974, a court order consolidated the case with the lawsuits of seven other TDC inmates (Montana v. Beto, Soto v.…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney

1:75-cv-01991 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 20, 1975

Closed Date: Feb. 25, 1980

On May 20, 1975, a non-veteran woman who had applied for civil service positions in Massachusetts filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, its Division of Civil Service, and the members of the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission. Represented by private counsel, she sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive relief.Massachusetts had passed the Massachusetts Veterans' Preference Statute, which gave an absolu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Alabama

2:15-cv-00368 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 28, 2015

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2013, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent notice to the Alabama Department of Corrections that it would be conducting an investigation of the Julia Tutwiler Prison. The investigation sought to address allegations that prisoners were subjected to sexual abuse by prison staff in violation of their constitutional rights; allegations that the prison failed to report and prevent sexual abuse; and allegations that the prison failed to provide adequate mental health an…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. Board of Education for the School District of Philadelphia and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

2:87-cv-02842 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 1, 1987

Closed Date: Sept. 12, 1990

This suit was brought by the United States in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Board of Education for the School District of Philadelphia. Proceeding under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the United States alleged a pattern or practice of religious discrimination in employment as well as individual discrimination against an individual who had filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissi…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
CODING IN PROCESS
Pittsburgh Press Company v. The Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations

70-00768 | Pennsylvania state trial court

Filed Date: 1970