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JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Cumberland County

1:23-cv-02655 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 17, 2023

This was a lawsuit filed by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), who alleged that the Cumberland County jail failed to provide constitutionally adequate mental healthcare to prisoners who were at risk of suicide or self-harm. The DOJ Civil Rights Division filed a complaint and proposed consent decree under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) on May 17, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Cumberland County and the Cumberland Cou…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Day v. District of Columbia

1:10-cv-02250 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2010

The plaintiffs, institutionalized individuals in the District of Columbia with disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 23, 2010. The complaint alleged that the District of Columbia had policies and procedures that force the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities who could live in the community with appropriate services. The plaintiffs claimed that these policies, which erected barriers to receiving long-term care…
POLICING
Illinois v. City of Chicago

1:17-cv-06260 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2017

This case established a consent decree related to alleged systemic misconduct by the Chicago Police Department.  On August 29, 2017, the State of Illinois filed this lawsuit against the City of Chicago in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003, and the Illinois Human Rights Act. The State brought this action on behalf of the people of Illinois to ensure that the City enacted comprehensive, lasting reform of th…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans Jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…

Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court

POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. State of Mississippi

3:70-cv-04706 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 9, 1970

Fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 88% of Mississippi’s black students still attended all-black schools. Ubiquitous “freedom of choice” plans let white children transfer to predominantly white schools. Individual lawsuits and threats of funding cuts from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare proved unable to effect wholesale desegregation. But in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of choice plan in Holmes County, Mississippi, was unconstitutional and …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United States v. Wilder

62-cv-08695 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 1962

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 1963

This is a case about a county in Louisiana depriving citizens of the United States of the right to vote based on race or color. On February 21, 1962, the Attorney General of the United States filed suit in the Western District of Louisiana against the Registrar of Voters of Jackson Parish, the State of Louisiana, and the Citizens’ Council of Jackson Parish (as an organization and six members in their individual capacity), represented by the Attorney General of Louisiana. The U.S. Attorney Gener…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. iTutorGroup, Inc.

1:22-cv-02565 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 5, 2022

This case concerns age discrimination in artificial intelligence (AI)-aided application software. A woman over the age of 55 applied for a job posted by iTutorGroup, Inc. as an English-language tutor for students in China. When she applied using her actual birth date, her application was automatically rejected. However, when she refiled her application using a later birth date, she received an interview. This software was allegedly programmed to instantly reject women over age 55 and men over a…

Case Is Ongoing

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…

Affirmed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending