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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. State of Louisiana

63-02548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 1961

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 1972

This case is about the Louisiana Board of Registration enabling Parish Registrars to use interpretation tests, which deprived African American citizens in Louisiana of their right to vote. On December 28, 1961, the U.S. Attorney General filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the State of Louisiana, the Board of Registration of the State of Louisiana (both as an organization and three members in their individual capacities), and Hugh E. Cutrer, Jr., t…

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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
U.S. v. Texas

65-cv-01570 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: 1965

Closed Date: May 2, 1966

This is a case about a Texas policy that provided  that, in order to vote in Texas, a person must pay the State's poll tax. In 1966, the Attorney General, on behalf of the United States, filed this lawsuit against the State of Texas; the Presiding Judge for Precinct Number 239 of Travis County, Texas; the Associate Judge for Precinct Number 239 of Travis County, Texas; the mayor of Austin, Texas; the Travis County Democratic Executive Committee; the Travis County Republican Executive Committee;…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States of America v. Tilden Gardens, Inc.

1:69-cv-02703 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 1969

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.]  This is a case about violations of Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 in Washington D.C.  It was filed on October 30, 2018, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.  
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
City of Pleasant Grove v. United States

1:80-cv-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

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
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…
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…
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…