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Samaha v. City of Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01715 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 2020

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POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
Minnesota v. Minneapolis Police Department

27-CV-20-8182 | Minnesota state trial court

Filed Date: June 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) After a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd on May 25, 2020, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights opened an investigation into whether Minneapolis and its police department violated a Minnesota state human rights statute because of a pattern or practice of race discrimination. On June 1, 2020, the MN Department of Human Rights filed a charge of discrimination against the city. Four days later, it requested a temporary court …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
K.O. by and through his parent and guardian J.O. v. Heather Mueller, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education

0:21-cv-01837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2021

Case Ongoing

On August 12, 2021, the Minnesota P&A (the Minnesota Disability Law Center), filed this class action lawsuit in Minnesota federal district court against the State of Minnesota and its State Department of Education challenging Minnesota’s special education statute that ends special education eligibility on July 1 of the year a student turns 21.  Jason Kim, of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP,  is pro bono co-counsel with the P&A. The class action plaintiffs contend that the state statute o…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Walz

0:20-cv-01688 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 11/19/2020, Plaintiffs argue that the mask mandate in public places passed by Executive Order by the governor of Minnesota at the start of the pandemic conflicts with a Minnesota statute prohibiting the wearing of a mask in public. The plaintiffs argue that the prospect of being prosecuted either for wearing a mask or not …
POLICING
Levy Armstrong v. City of Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01645 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: July 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case arose out of protests in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020. On July 28, 2020, a group of four protesters brought suit on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated protesters under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. They sued the City of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Chief of Police, the President of the MPD Federation, and State of Minnesota police off…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Loki Properties, LLP

0:10-cv-02597 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: June 24, 2010

Closed Date: 2013

On June 24, 2010, the United States filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. §§3601-3619, against owners and operators of an apartment complex located in Red Wing Minnesota. DOJ alleged that the defendants discriminated against the complainant, an African-American man, on the basis of race and sex when it refused to rent him a unit because of his criminal background, but rented an apartment to a white male with a felonious c…
POLICING
Williams v. Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01303 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: June 2, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 15, 2021

This class-action lawsuit was brought on June 2, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota under § 1983. The suit arose out of the protests that engulfed the nation following the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020. Defendants in this case were the City of Minneapolis and John Does 1-100, one of whom was a police officer who allegedly pepper sprayed the plaintiff. The complaint alleged that Minneapolis law enforcement used tactics during these protests that violat…
POLICING
Goyette v. Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01302 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: June 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on June 2, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The case arose out of the 2020 protests that began after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. The plaintiffs in this case alleged that Minneapolis police targeted journalists covering the protests in violation of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The original complaint sought class certification for a class consisting of "all members of the news media . . . who intend to engage in new…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Settlement Agreement Between the United States of America and the Law School Admission Council

DJ# 202-39-97 | No Court

Filed Date: 2011

Closed Date: 2011

Sometime during or after October, 2009, a person ("complainant") with a learning disability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and hypertonia (a disability that limits the ability of affected person to move) filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice for the District of Minnesota against the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 42 U.S.C. 12189 and its implementing regulations 28 C.F.R. 36.309. The complainant alleged that…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Harvey v. Schoen

3:72-cv-00073 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: March 8, 1972

Closed Date: 1999

In 1972, a class of incarcerated and former inmates at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Stillwater filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections. The complaint alleged that disciplinary rules and regulations at the prison violated their rights under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments and federal and state statutes. The plaintiffs were represented by private counsel. The parties entered into an agreement regarding disciplinary policies. Judge Phillip …