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April 29, 2013
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
In this landmark case, brought in 1995, decided by the Supreme Court in 1999, and concluded in the district court in 2000, persons unnecessarily confined to institutions for care relating to mental or intellectual disabilities won the right to state-funded community-based treatment options. The U.S. Supreme Court held that unjustified segregation in institutions constitutes illegal discrimination, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, not only because it perpetuates unwarranted assumptions that people with disabilities are incapable or unworthy of participating in community life, but because confinement in an institution severely curtails everyday life activities, such as family relations, social contacts, work, educational advancement and cultural enrichment. The Supreme Court decision has led to an entire category of litigation (usually referred to as "Olmstead litigation"); the Clearinghouse has collected over a hundred of these cases here.
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April 26, 2013
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On March 26, 2013, the Supreme Court heard argument in two of the cases listed below, each dealing with same-sex marriage--Perry and Windsor. In the Perry case, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that California's Proposition 8, which barred application of the label of "marriage" to same-sex civil unions, violated the Equal Protection Clause. The Court added to the issues under review whether the supporters of Proposition 8 had standing to appeal the federal court decision striking it down, given that the state government was not appealing. In Windsor, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals' held the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also added the questions whether the Obama administration's agreement that DOMA is unconstitutional deprives the Supreme Court of jurisdiction to decide the case; and whether the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the United States House of Representatives has Article III standing .
Decision is expected by the end of June. The Clearinghouse's full collection of same-sex marriage cases is available here.
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The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse has assembled a number of special case collections. These are accessible from the case search page, or right from this list:
Employment discrimination cases:
In addition, we have grouped together cases brought by the same law offices , including (for example) the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division; the national ACLU; the Prison Law Office; and others. These too are accessible from the case search page.
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October 23, 2012
In a large-scale research project funded by the National Science Foundation, scholars associated with the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Michigan, have collected data on federal court litigation brought between 1997 and 2006 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency charged with enforcing the laws forbidding discrimination by private employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, and disability. The data capture various aspects of the agency's litigation activities, including detailed information regarding the participants, motions, events, and outcomes. The project is described and the data posted here. And for each case included, the Clearinghouse posts, here, the available key documents -- the docket sheet, complaint, and injunction/settlement/court order.
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August 1, 2011
Library of Congress
Even though this is the most famous civil rights case ever, the relevant litigation documents are not easy to come by. The Supreme Court decisions, in 1954 (announcing the rule that "separate is inherently unequal") and 1955 (announcing that remediation of Jim Crow school segregation could proceed "with all deliberate speed"), were obviously extraordinarily important, and are easily available. But the litigation in Topeka lasted from the filing of the first complaint in 1951 until final dismissal of the case in 1999. The Clearinghouse has copies of many of the crucial documents in the case.
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