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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…
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…
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…

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. American Samoa Government, Department of Human and Social Services

1:23-cv-00209 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: May 11, 2023

This case concerns discrimination against a transgender employee of the government of American Samoa. A transgender woman who worked for the Department of Human and Social Services of the American Samoa Government filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on January 17, 2017, alleging a hostile work environment on the basis of her gender identity, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After the EEOC investigated and attempted to resolve the cl…

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Detroit Action v. City of Hamtramck

2:21-cv-11315 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 3, 2021

Closed Date: July 13, 2025

In this case, Michigan voters alleged that the City of Hamtramck violated the Voting Rights Act Section 203’s bilingual language assistance requirements; the case was settled by consent decree shortly after the complaint was filed. On June 3, 2021, a voters’ organization (Detroit Action) and a Bengali-speaking voter alleged that the City of Hamtramck had failed to provide Bengali-translated election materials and support for Bengali-speaking, Bangladeshi-American voters.  Specifically, the comp…

Settled: Case Closed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Castanon Nava v. Department of Homeland Security

1:18-cv-03757 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 29, 2018

This is a case about pretextual vehicle stops used to apprehend undocumented noncitizens in the Chicago area. On May 29, 2018, five noncitizens and two nongovernmental organizations filed this putative class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Secretary, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Acting Director, and the Field Office Director of the ICE Chicago Field Office in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ill…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Bradley v. Haley

2:92-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 1992

Closed Date: Jan. 1, 2005

On January 15, 1992, a group of prisoners incarcerated in the Alabama Department of Corrections brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the adequacy of mental health treatment provided by state prison officials. The plaintiffs, mentally ill prisoners, were represented by private counsel and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The case was assigned to Judge W. Harold Albritton III. The plaintiffs were granted class certification o…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Murray v. Santa Barbara

2:17-cv-08805 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2017

On December 6, 2017, several prisoners of the Santa Barbara County Jail (SBCJ) in pre-trial detention filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Santa Barbara and the Sheriff's Office under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29…

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DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. MedStar Health, Inc.

1:24-cv-00302 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2024

On January 30, 2024. the United States of America filed this lawsuit against MedStar Health, Inc. (“MedStar”) in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The United States alleged that during the COVID-19 pandemic, MedStar, the largest healthcare provider in Maryland and Washington, D.C., repeatedly denied non-patient support persons for people with disabilities access to their hospitals. The United States sought injunctive relief in the form of MedStar modifying its polic…
POLICING
Commonwealth of Virginia v. Town of Windsor

CL21001186-00 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This case stemmed from the December 6, 2020 traffic stop of a Black and Latino service member whom police pepper sprayed during a stop for a minor traffic violation. The Clearinghouse was unable to locate the original and amended complaints but completed this summary based on news articles. According to WLJA News, on December 30, 2021, Virginia Attorney General Herring’s Office of Civil Rights filed a complaint against the Town of Windsor (“Town”) for violations of the Virginia Public Integrity…