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612 | This is a summary of the infamous Abner Louima case. a matter which attracted international attention and sparked demonstrations on New York City Hall in 1997 for its allegations of conscious-shocking police abuse. On August 8, 1998, Louima's private attorneys, who included the late Johnnie Cochran, filed suit pursuan... |
628 | This case addressed First Amendment claims concerning President Donald J. Trump’s blocking of Twitter users from his account.
On July 11, 2017, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, as well as various political writers and professors, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern D... |
48 | On December 2, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint against the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak”) for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12165, by failing to make its intercity rail stations accessible to individuals with disabilities b... |
158 | In September, 2001 the New Orleans District Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against Belle Chasse Marine Transportation, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana alleging discrimination on the basis of race, black, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifica... |
524 | On March 29, 2018, four transgender people seeking to correct their Ohio birth certificates to accurately reflect their gender identity filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (in Columbus). The plaintiffs sued the Director of the Ohio Department of Health under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.... |
102 | On August 24, 2006, the Wilmington office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act against I.G. Burton of Seaford in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated ADEA-protected rights of the ... |
543 | On September 13, 2005, Prison Legal News (PLN), a non-profit legal journal devoted to reporting news and litigation concerning detention facilities, filed this action against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. PLN sought declaratory and injunctive relief for the defenda... |
240 | On December 9, 2011, an openly gay former employee of Ohio Bell Telephone Company filed suit in U.S District Court for the Northern District of Ohio alleging that he had been dismissed in violation of both state and federal law. Specifically, Mr. Koren, who had taken the name of his husband, alleged that Ohio Bell viol... |
319 | This is one of twelve cases filed on May 21, 2012 in federal district courts across the country by Catholic organizations challenging the contraception mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Plaintiffs, a non-profit corporation of Catholic parishes, schools, and charities, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Dist... |
633 | This case involved a challenge to Caddo Parish School Board's decision to merge two all-black high schools: Booker T. Washington and Fair Park. <i>Cooksey</i> marks one challenge in a long history of school desegregation litigation efforts in the Caddo Parish School District, captured in <a href="https://www.clearingho... |
235 | The Cleveland district office of the EEOC brought this suit against Overnite Transportation Company, a major transportation company, in June 2002, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The complaint alleged that Overnite refused to hire qualified individuals due to their epilepsy in violation o... |
776 | This is a case about poor conditions at a North Carolina private prison. On June 28, 2007, a group of men held at the Rivers Correctional Institution in North Carolina brought this class action suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. They sued GEO Group, Inc., the private company that own... |
236 | The Philadelphia district office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought this suit against Pitt-Ohio Express, Inc., a transport company, in March 2006, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The complaint was brought on behalf of a woman who had applied to work for Pitt-Ohi... |
539 | On August 22, 1980, Richard Bartkus filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Connecticut Corrections Department. This case was consolidated and named lead case with five other cases filed against the defendant in 1981 and 1982. The plaintiffs in the other cases w... |
904 | On June 10, 2011, three indigent persons charged with crimes filed this class action, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law, in Skagit County Superior Court, against the City of Mount Vernon and the City of Burlington. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the ACLU, asked the court to enjoin the cities fro... |
76 | In December 1997, the Birmingham District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Outrigger Restaurant, Inc. and Employer Accounting Services Com. Inc.in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, alleging that the defendants violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by subjecting employees to ... |
564 | On May 30, 2013, prisoners in the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Mississippi Department of Corrections commissioner, deputy commissioner, and chief medical officer in their officia... |
280 | In September 2003, the San Antonio District Office of the EEOC filed this suit against Williamson County Cablevision Company in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas alleging discrimination on basis of national origin in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complaint alleged ... |
595 | On September 12, 2013, a juvenile sex offender and his parents filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Etowah County. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and both the national and local American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), asked the cou... |
226 | In July 2004, the New York District Office of the EEOC filed this suit against OCS Group, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant discriminated against the four charging... |
558 | On January 21, 2003, a group of Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) prisoners afflicted with Hepatitis-C, and relying on 42 U.S.C. § 1983, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against MDOC officials, as well as individuals and entities providing contract medical service... |
695 | On August 29, 2002, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico against Bell Gas, Inc. and related corporations on behalf of a female employee. The EEOC alleged that the companies had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C... |
313 | This case was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts on May 16, 2005 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Department of Health and Human Services. The plaintiff claimed that the department's provision of more than a million dollars of public funds to a ministry ... |
526 | On November 17, 2017, six people with physical and/or intellectual impairments that relied on ADvantage waivers and/or In-Home Supports waivers to receive health services at their homes, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District for the Western District of Oklahoma. The plaintiffs sued Oklahoma Heal... |
234 | The Cleveland office of the EEOC brought this suit against Carter Jones Lumber Company in the Northern District of Ohio in September 2004. The complaint alleged that the defendant failed to hire the complainant because of a physical disability and made medical inquiries in violation of the Americans with Disabilities A... |
419 | On December 13, 2011, four inmates of the Fresno County Adult Detention Facilities filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the Fresno County Sheriff's Office under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 2011 WL 11557976. The plaintiffs, represented by the Prison ... |
285 | On March 31, 2005, the Phoenix and Salt Lake City offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against Dee's Family Restaurants in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of a class of female employees by s... |
190 | In August 2004, the St. Louis District Office of the EEOC (with participation from the Kansas City Area Office) brought this suit against Garden City Plastics Equipment and Supply Co., Inc. and Plastic Packaging Concepts, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri alleging that the defendants ... |
303 | On July 27, 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Tribe, represented by Earthjustice, sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to block the Corps’ actions related to the Dakota Access Pipeline (a 1,168-mile crude oil pipeline running from North ... |
822 | On May 13, 2004, a deaf woman filed this lawsuit in the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District of the State of Idaho. She sued Hollywood Entertainment Corporation (doing business as Hollywood Video) under the Idaho Human Rights Act, claiming the company discriminated against her on the basis of her disability.... |
63 | On January 13, 2003, several student members of the Westfield High School L.I.F.E. Club filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, against the City of Westfield, Massachusetts. The complaint alleged that the def... |
593 | On January 14, 2016, arrestees in New Orleans who were declared eligible to receive appointed counsel from the Orleans Parish Public Defender’s Office (OPD) but were placed on a waiting list, sued in a class action OPD and the Louisiana State Public Defender office under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for violating their Sixth and Fo... |
265 | In September 1999, the Houston District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against G.I. Trucking Company in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, an agent of the defendant alleged... |
578 | On June 9, 2017, three mentally ill prisoners of the U.S. Penitentiary at Lewisburg (USP Lewisburg) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The case was assigned to Judge Yvette Kane. The plaintiffs sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons, alleging that the defenda... |
771 | On October 22, 2013, five parolees in custody or under supervision of the Illinois Department of Corrections filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by the Uptown People's Law Center and the MacArthur Justice Center at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law... |
808 | EEOC's Birmingham, AL office and Washington, DC office jointly filed this retaliation lawsuit against the defendant, Vulcan Lincoln Mercury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on 05/18/2005. The defendant, a division of Serra Automotive Group, was a new and used car dealer in Birmi... |
244 | The EEOC sued Greg & Deb's, Inc.; Mark & Greg's, Inc.; and the offending owners on June 12, 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The EEOC's complaint alleged that the defendants violated Title VII when they discriminated against the intervenor employee, who intervened in August, 20... |
465 | On February 27, 2002, four individuals involuntarily detained by the Illinois Department of Human Services pursuant to the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act (“SVP Act”) on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois. The plaintiffs su... |
838 | In August 2004, the EEOC district office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania brought this suit against Bare Feet Shoes of Pennsylvania, Inc., a casual shoe retailer, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Two female aggrieved employees are named in the complaint, but only one intervened. Both ... |
551 | On January 23, 2012, a deaf inmate incarcerated at the Idaho State Correctional Institution filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The plaintiff sued the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. Specifically, the plainti... |
161 | The New Orleans District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against K&B Louisiana Corp., doing business as Rite Aid Inc., in July of 2003, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The suit was based on sexual harassment and retaliation against a female employee in violation of Title VII of ... |
104 | On June 30, 2004, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed this sex discrimination and retaliation suit in the Fort Lauderdale U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against DTG Operations, Inc., (doing business as Dollar Rent A Car) on behalf of a female employee. The EEOC alleged tha... |
426 | COVID-19 Summary: This putative class-action lawsuit, brought by inmates in Orange County Jail, argued that county and the sheriff violated the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in failing to provide adequate care amidst the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. The ... |
108 | In August 2004, the Tampa and Miami offices of the EEOC brought this suit against Sand Key Associates, Ltd. d/b/a Sheraton Sand Key Resort in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. In its complaint, the EEOC alleged that defendant violated Title VII's prohibition of sex discrimination by subjectin... |
113 | On May 8, 2013, the EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and 42 U.S.C. § 2000 against Dynamic Medical Services, Inc. The EEOC brought the matter on behalf of several salespeople employed by Dynamic Medical Services, a medical and chiropractic practice, and s... |
411 | On May 3, 2011, a coalition of immigrant rights groups and individual immigrants filed this class action lawsuit against the State of Utah in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, challenging the state's immigration-enforcement law, House Bill 497 (HB 497). HB 497 was a severe, anti-immigr... |
623 | On February 22, 2017, four plaintiffs filed suit against the City of Memphis, Tennessee in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee for violating their First Amendment rights. The plaintiffs all found themselves on a “black list” created by the Memphis Police Department. They argued that the police... |
314 | On February 1, 2010, a Massachusetts citizen arrested for videotaping police practices filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and relevant state law, against the City of Boston and several police officers. The plaintiff, represented by an ACLU attorney and private counsel, s... |
636 | This is a case about the violent insurrection and disruption of Congress on January 6, 2021 as Congressional members approved the results of the Electoral College in order to elect the next President and Vice President of the United States.
On February 16, 2021, a member of the United States House of Representatives,... |
654 | This is a case challenging the legality of the Kanawha County Schools (KCS) treatment of students with disabilities. On January 24, 2020, a plaintiff who was a third-grade student in the Kanawha County School district, filed this class-action suit against the school district and its superintendent. The Arc of West Virg... |
52 | An individual who uses a wheelchair and his mother filed this Fair Housing suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on July 27, 2006. The plaintiff had moved into a ground floor unit in a development known as the Uptown Apartments, part of a "new urbanism" complex that includes abou... |
645 | On May 2, 2000, three inmates at the Riverfront State Prison in New Jersey filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey against the New Jersey State Parole Board. The complaint alleged that the Parole Board knowingly and consistently faile... |
431 | On June 29, 2009, two inmates at the Manatee County Jail filed a pro se lawsuit in the Middle District Court of Florida challenging the constitutionality of the jail’s new mail policy. The inmates filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated at the jail, alleging that the new p... |
512 | On July 20, 2004, a lesbian couple living in Florida filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against the U.S. Attorney General and Clerk for the Circuit and Country Courts of Hillsborough County, Florida, challenging the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Florida's implemen... |
357 | On March 16, 2018, a prisoner at the Coconino County Detention Facility (CCDF), in Flagstaff Arizona, filed this class action lawsuit in the Superior Court of Coconino County, Arizona on behalf of himself and similarly situated prisoners. The complaint sought declaratory relief and preliminary and permanent injunctive ... |
508 | This is a case about the Trump Administration's limits on LGBTQ protections under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. § 18116). On June 22, 2020, a group of LGBTQ-focused private healthcare providers, organizations providing community services, health professional associations, and individual prov... |
849 | On May 17, 2018, a Catholic foster care and social services agency and {} filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, against the City of Philadelphia. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and by conservative public interest organization the Becket Fund for Religiou... |
372 | On December 22, 2003, nine individuals and ImmigrationPortal.com, an Internet site with over 72,000 registered members who shared information about immigration law violations, filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging unreasonable delays in the processing of employment-bas... |
640 | COVID-19 Summary: This suit was brought on May 19, 2020, by two non-profit organizations and three voter plaintiffs against the state of Louisiana to challenge Louisiana’s Excuse Requirement, Witness Requirement, and Cure Prohibition. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin the defendants from... |
571 | On September 29, 1997, prisoners at various facilities within the New York State Department of Corrections filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Department officials. The plaintiffs, represented by Prisoners Legal Services of New York, brought the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western D... |
815 | On April 22, 1999, a black employee of an automotive plant sued the owner and its manager in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Judge Edward W. Nottingham, for failing to prevent racial discrimination by other workers, in violation of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and state law.
Specifically, Plaint... |
784 | On February 3, 2010, eleven Virginia prisoners, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and private counsel, filed this class action lawsuit against the Virginia Parole Board ("the Board") under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Plaintiffs challenged the Board's denia... |
351 | In 1990, prior to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a group of residents of the Wyoming State Training School, an institution that housed individuals with intellectual disabilities, brought this lawsuit. Represented by the Wyoming Protection and Advocacy System, the plaintiffs sought to remedy unconst... |
496 | This 2017 lawsuit challenged the FBI’s placement of a U.S. citizen on a terrorist watchlist; it was dismissed in 2019.
The Terrorism Screening DataBase, also known as the “terrorist watchlist,” is maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), a division of the National Security Branch of the FBI. The watchlist i... |
194 | In December 1997, private plaintiff filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri against Woodbine Healthcare, a general care nursing home, and two individuals, alleging that the defendants violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by paying nurses of Filipino origin lower wages than ... |
201 | In September 2004 the Charlotte District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Bud Foods, LLC, doing business as Shoney's Restaurant, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 19... |
245 | The EEOC's Philadelphia office filed this suit on July 30, 2003 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Division. The complaint alleged that defendant Interstate Brands Corporation discriminated against two female complainants in violation of Title VII. The complainants were al... |
577 | On May 18, 2015, a prisoner at the Mahanoy State Correctional Institute filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The complaint arose out of the plaintiff’s hospitalization for Hepatitis C. The plaintiff sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Bureau ... |
290 | In September 2004, the Seattle District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Central Park Lodges Long Term Care, Inc., d/b/a Linden Grove Health Care Center, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The complaint alleged that the defendant discriminated against the charging parties, e... |
232 | On September 25, 2017, three detectives of the New York Police Department (NYPD) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the City of New York, the NYPD Deputy Commissioner, and the NYPD Assistant Chief under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act ... |
545 | On August 10, 1990, inmates at the Florida State Prison in Bradford County, Florida filed a pro se class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Florida Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their consti... |
566 | This case is about the refusal of North Carolina's Department of Public Safety (DPS) to recognize Humanism as a faith group within the state prison system. On February 2, 2015, an inmate in a North Carolina prison and the American Humanist Association filed this lawsuit in the Eastern District of North Carolina against... |
903 | On August 28, 2007, Stephen Pevar, an ACLU attorney, filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court District of Wyoming, challenging the interrogation practices at the Wyoming State Penitentiary. Pevar alleged that state prison investigators interrogated inmates about the substanc... |
732 | On November 20, 2014, Joe Arpaio, the Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, filed this lawsuit in the D.C. District Court against President Obama, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the U.S. Attorney General. Sheriff Arpaio sued und... |
671 | In April 1999, the EEOC's Miami District Office filed this suit against Walpole, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant subjected the charging party, a B... |
173 | On March 6th, 2003, African American employees of Friedman's jewelry store filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 against Friedman's Inc., along with Federal Insurance Company and St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company. The lawsuit was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Southern Division. The ... |
852 | On January 18, 2001, the United States filed a complaint under the Fair Housing Act and the American with Disabilities Act against the Edward Rose Construction, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The plaintiff sought injunctive, declaratory, and monetary relief. On September 3, 2... |
825 | In September 2000, the EEOC district office in Chicago, Illinois brought this suit against Spacelabs Burdick, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The complaint states that a former female employee alleged that the defendant unlawfully discriminated against her on the basis of her sex... |
565 | A North Carolina Department of Corrections inmate, became an acclaimed "urban fiction" novelist, successfully publishing several novels from prison. On February 3, 2009 he sued the prison in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina for punishing him for his writing and publishing activities af... |
393 | COVID-19 Summary: This is a habeas action brought by seven medically vulnerable detainees in Mississippi. They sought release from detention because their underlying medical conditions made them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, which they alleged made their detention unconstitutional. The court denied a temporary r... |
620 | On March 4, 2003, plaintiff, an indigent resident of Philadelphia incarcerated for failure to pay traffic fines, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of himself and all those similarly situated in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against the City of Philadelphi... |
371 | On July 13, 2007, Plaintiff filed a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, New Haven Division. Plaintiff is a foreign national who had lawfully studied and worked in the United States for nearly eleven years. On the morning of October 29, 2004, when he lef... |
586 | On February 19, 2016, the plaintiff, a Muslim inmate at the Red Onion State Prison, filed this pro se lawsuit alleging a violation of right to free expression in the District Court for the Western District of Virginia. He sued the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) under 28 U.S.C. 2201, 48 U.S.C. 1983, and the ... |
68 | This case is about the denial of access to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to educationally disabled students in the Buffalo City School District. A student with an educational disability received an Individualized Education Program (IEP) for the 2011 school year that included speech and language therapy. Th... |
124 | The EEOC's Chicago office filed this suit on September 18, 2000 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The complaint was brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and alleged that Burns International Security Service, doing business as Kane Security, failed to reasonably accommodate the... |
476 | On February 21, 1996. the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against GMS Management-Tucker, Inc. and Tucker House II, Inc. GMS Management was a for-profit corporation and Tucker House II was a non-... |
821 | In February 2006, the EEOC office in Seattle, Washington brought this suit against Kraft Foods Global, Inc. (doing business as Nabisco, Inc.), a world wide food manufacturer, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. A disabled female alleged that the defendant violated Title I of the Americans with Disabi... |
196 | In September 2004, the EEOC's Charlotte office filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina against Carmike Cinemas, Inc., alleging multiple violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC alleged that the defendant, an large operator of over 300 movie theater... |
788 | This complaint was filed on July 23, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was filed by a number of political and legal organizations, as well as a news media organization. These groups included: Black Lives Matter Chicago; Black Abolitionist Network; Chicago Democratic Sociali... |
17 | On January 19, 2006, a death-sentenced inmate of the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center in Baltimore, Maryland filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Maryland Department of Correction in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiff, whose execution was scheduled to take place du... |
106 | In September 2004, the Miami District Office of the EEOC filed this suit against RT Tampa Franchise, L.P., d/b/a Ruby Tuesday, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint... |
629 | This case was brought by former President Donald J. Trump, his children, and other affiliates (“Plaintiffs”) in response to Congressional subpoenas issued to the former President’s banks, Deutsche Bank AG (“Deutsche Bank”) and Capital One Financial Corp. (“Capital One”). The banks notified him they would be complying... |
637 | On June 8, 2012, two naturalized U.S. citizens and a national non-profit dedicated to increasing civic participation among Latinos filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1973c and 28 U.S.C. § 2201 against the State of Florida in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division. The plaintiffs, ... |
410 | After being imprisoned in Bexar County Adult Detention Center (BCADA) for about 75 days after his criminal charges were dismissed, an individual filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas August 26, 2016. Bexar County detained the plaintiff, despite the dismissal, of his criminal ch... |
562 | On August 22, 2016, a 37-year-old transgender woman incarcerated in the Potosi Correctional Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiff sued the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) and Corizon LLC, the contracted medical provider for MDOC, under 42 U.S.... |
854 | On November 7, 2002, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division ("DOJ") sent its "findings letter" to Kentucky's governor, advising him of the results of the November 2001, DOJ investigation of conditions and practices at the Oakwood Developmental Center ("Oakwood"), a state-operated center in Somerset, Ken... |
587 | After a two-year investigation initiated in December 2016 under CRIPA and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a Notice on December 19, 2018 concluding that the Hampton Roads Regional Jail Authority (“HRRJ”) failed to provide constitutionally adequate medical an... |
261 | In September 2002, the EEOC district office of San Antonio, Texas filed this suit against Brookdale Living Communities of Texas, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The complaint alleges violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 based upon failure to hire and reasonably acc... |
157 | On December 21, 2006, an Air Force reservist filed a lawsuit under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301-4333 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky against City of Highland Heights. The plaintiff sought injunctive and compensatory damages, all... |
345 | On December 19, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed <a href="http://www.clearinghouse.net/chDocs/public/FH-TX-0009-0001.pdf">this suit</a> in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas against Fort Davis State Bank (FDSB), alleging violations of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 15 ... |
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