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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee and United States of America v. Macon County School Board (M.D. Ala. cases)

3:70-cv-00846 | U.S. District Court for the Middle 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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia

59-04138 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: 1959

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POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
United States v. City of Philadelphia

2:79-02937 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: 1979

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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Adams v. Rankin County Board of Education

3:67-cv-04156 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 1967

Case Ongoing

This is a school desegregation case that was filed on August 1, 1967 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Plaintiffs, black students and their families who resided in Rankin County, Mississippi, sought to integrate the Rankin County public schools. Renowned civil rights attorney Melvyn Leventhal was one of the attorneys who represented the plaintiffs.On September 26, 1967, Rankin County was permanently enjoined from discriminating on the basis of race in its publ…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ruiz v. Estelle

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

Filed Date: June 1, 1972

Case Ongoing

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.…
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…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee and United States of America v. Macon County School Board (S.D. Ala. cases)

1:70-cv-05945 | U.S. District Court for the Southern 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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Katzenbach v. Morgan

1:65-01915 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 1965

Closed Date: June 13, 1966

This case involves a challenge to Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. New York election law required Puerto Rican voters to prove their English proficiency by showing they had completed education at least through the sixth grade entirely or predominantly in English. However, Section 4(e) prohibited denying the right to vote to anyone educated through sixth grade in Puerto Rico in a language other than English. Two New York voters sued the New York City Board of Elections, whose membe…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
White v. Crook

65-02263 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 1965

Closed Date: Feb. 7, 1966

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. On August 25, 1965, two plaintiffs brought this class action suit against the Lowndes County, Alabama jury commission. Filing suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, and represented by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendants systematically excluded African Americans men a…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Williams v. Wallace

2:65-cv-02181 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: March 8, 1965

Closed Date: 1965

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. Despite the Civil Rights Act and the Department of Justice's myriad lawsuits against Alabama state officials for voter discrimination, racial discrimination among Alabama's voters persisted. Tensions in Selma thus also persisted throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. Ultimately, an injunction issued in this case would enable the Selm…