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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
City of Pleasant Grove v. United States

1:80-02589 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 1980

Closed Date: Jan. 21, 1987

This is a case about an annexed municipality being refused pre-clearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  In 1980, The City of Pleasant Grove (plaintiff) filed an action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia “seeking declaratory judgment that the annexation by the city of certain land did not have ‘the purpose of effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color.’  The Attorney General (defendant) denied preclearance for the annexat…
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…
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: June 17, 2002

This was a prisoner led class action which broadly challenged conditions and practices within the Texas state prison system. Issues covered included overcrowding, inadequate healthcare, unsafe working conditions, inadequate access to the justice system, and severe and arbitrary disciplinary procedures. The plaintiff’s 1980 trial victory was followed by over two decades of appeals and negotiations which culminated in numerous consent decrees. As one of the longest running prisoners' lawsuit in U…
POLICING
Friedman v. United States

65-18245 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: 1965

Closed Date: March 16, 1967

The United States charged the defendant in this case with lying to the FBI under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (making a false statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of a department or agency of the United States). It brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, where the case was assigned to Judge John K. Regan. The defendant had told the FBI that he was beaten while handcuffed in the custody of the Missouri Highway Patrol. The FBI investigated but could not substant…
POLICING
United States v. City of Philadelphia

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

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 1979

Closed Date: Dec. 29, 1980

The Department of Justice sued the City of Philadelphia for declaratory and injunctive relief on August 13, 1979, alleging a pervasive pattern of police abuse by the Philadelphia Police Department. Similarly, the DOJ claimed that the police department facilitated these illegal practices with their policies and procedures for investigating police misconduct. The DOJ further alleged that the disputed practices had an unlawfully disproportionate impact on Black and Latino persons. This case was th…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia

59-04138 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: 1959

Closed Date: 1967

In this landmark civil rights case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state statutes banning interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In June 1958, two Virginia residents, Mildred Jeter, a Black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, married in Washington, D.C., pursuant to its laws. In October 1958, upon returning to Virginia, a grand jury issued an indictment charging the Lovings with violating Virginia a…
EDUCATION
Cannon v. University of Chicago

1:75-02402 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 18, 1975

Closed Date: June 7, 1989

This is a case about a female medical school applicant who alleged that she was denied admission because of her gender and age in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and multiple federal statutes. In April of 1975, a 39-year-old female medical school applicant filed this lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by private counsel, she sued the medical schools at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, as well a…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Davis v. Jury Commission of Montgomery County

2:66-cv-02479 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 1966

In this case, a Black man charged with a crime in Montgomery County, Alabama, challenged the County's policy of systematically excluding Black people from jury service. On November 5, 1966, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, where it was assigned to then-District Judge Frank M. Johnson. Bringing suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgement Act (28 U.S.C. § 2201), the plaintiff claimed that the exclusion of Black …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Katzenbach v. Morgan

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