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POLICING
Cottman v. Baltimore Police Department

1:21-cv-00837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 1, 2021

This case challenged the Baltimore Police Department (“BPD”) policy and practice of searching, seizing, retaining, and destroying the personal property of victims of violent crimes. On April 1, 2021, three plaintiffs filed this class-action lawsuit against BPD and the City of Baltimore in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Represented by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that BPD’s pract…
POLICING
Abbate v. Ramsey

1:03-cv-00767 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 27, 2003

Closed Date: Jan. 24, 2005

This case concerns the legality of the mass arrests and detentions of anti-war demonstrators conducted by the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”). On March 27, 2003, five individual protestors filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, on behalf of the more than 400 people who were surrounded, arrested, and detained while demonstrating in Pershing Park. Represented by the ACLU of the National Capital Area, the …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of United Latin American Citizens - Richmond Region Council 4614 v. Public Interest Legal Foundation

1:18-cv-00423 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 12, 2018

This is a case about the allegedly false claims made in reports published by the Public Interest Legal Foundation accusing the named plaintiffs of committing voter fraud.  On April 12, 2018, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and four private individuals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs sued the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) and its president under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), Section 11(b) of the Vot…
POLICING
Hernandez v. San Jose

5:16-cv-03957 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 14, 2016

Closed Date: March 23, 2020

On July 14, 2016, attendees of a rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump filed this class action lawsuit against the City of San Jose, its Mayor, individual police officers in their personal capacity, and anti-Trump protestors. Plaintiffs claimed that at the end of the rally, as they were leaving, San Jose police directed them into a crowd of violent anti-Trump protesters who allegedly assaulted the plaintiffs. The police had designated this exit for Trump supporters, but sticking to this…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Schultz v. Medina Valley Independent School District

5:11-cv-00422 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 26, 2011

Summary posted to the Clearinghouse on August 4, 2020:On May 26, 2011, an agnostic graduating senior at Medina Valley High School, his older brother (a former student at the school), and their parents filed suit against the Medina Valley Independent School District in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Represented by Americans United for Separation of Church and State and by private counsel, the plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, nominal da…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Deluxe Financial Services

0:15-cv-02646 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: June 4, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2019

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota on behalf of a transgender woman who alleged that she had been discriminated against by her former employer under 42 U.S.C. § 1981a. The EEOC alleged violations of Title VII (42 U.S.C. § 2000e) and sought monetary and injunctive relief on behalf of the complainant. The case was assigned to Judge Ann Montgomery. The EEOC claimed that the complainant was subjected to a …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. APRIA HEALTHCARE GROUP INC

4:14-cv-00443 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: April 14, 2004

Closed Date: March 31, 2007

The St. Louis District Office of the EEOC brought this action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The complaint, filed in April 2004, alleged discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA); specifically that Defendant had failed to reasonably accommodate the charging party and then terminated her because of her disability, bi-polar disorder.The parties entered into a consent decree in March 2005. The decree was valid for two years…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Humane Animal Welfare Society

2:05-cv-00965 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2005

Closed Date: June 28, 2007

In September 2005, the Milwaukee District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against the Humane Animal Welfare Society in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin alleging violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"). Specifically, the charging parties, former employees, alleged that the defendant terminated their employment because of their age and then refused to rehire them in retaliation for their complaint to the EEOC. In January 2006, the parties…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. LUBY'S INC

2:04-cv-01094 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 27, 2004

Closed Date: Oct. 19, 2007

In May 2004, the Phoenix District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Luby's Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. We do not have a copy of the complaint. However, according to the consent decree and a court order in the case, the complaint alleged that the defendant violated the American with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA") by discriminating against the charging party, an employee with an intellectual disability. Specifically, the defendant failed to reasona…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO

2:04-cv-02007 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 2004

Closed Date: June 8, 2007

In September 2004, the EEOC's Phoenix District Office brought this suit against Blockbuster, a video rental chain, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. We do not have a copy of the complaint. However, according to an EEOC press release, the complaint alleged that Blockbuster violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to make a reasonable accommodate for the charging party's religious beliefs. Specifically, the defendant refused to allow the charging part…