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U.S. v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

3:08-cv-00158 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2008

In March 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated an investigation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) pursuant to 42 USC § 14141. On October 5, 2005, the DOJ issued a technical assistance letter to VIPD, making recommendations regarding specific changes to the department's policies regarding use of force, vehicle pursuits, holding cells, misconduct investigations, discipline, supervisory oversight, and training. On December 23, 2008, the DOJ …
EDUCATION
Gopalan v. Allen

1:25-cv-02469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 28, 2025

This case challenged a university’s alleged retaliatory closure of a federally funded research institute following a whistleblower report of grant-related embezzlement. The Futures Institute at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) was established in 2023 with a $4.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. It employed Ph.D. students, faculty, and staff, and conducted research on issues such as cancer and environmental pollution. In 2024, Dr. Sandeep Gopalan, Interim Vice …

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Wilkins v. City of Chicago

1:23-cv-04072 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 26, 2023

This is a case about the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) alleged pattern and practice of race-based and discriminatory police practices in traffic stops conducted since 2016. On June 26, 2023, five plaintiffs who had been repeatedly stopped by CPD officers, on what they claimed was limited suspicion, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs alleged unlawful race and national origin discrimination in violation of …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Diggs v. Mici

4:22-cv-40003 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2022

This is a case about prison officials who allegedly inflicted weeks of unprovoked violence on prisoners, particularly prisoners of color. On January 10, 2022, nine Black and Latino men incarcerated at Massachusetts' Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs sued state officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the Eighth Amendmen…

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United States of America v. City of Minneapolis

0:25-cv-00048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2025

On April 21, 2021, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). According to Garland, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, was to examine whether the City and MPD violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, …

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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…
POLICING
United States of America v. Louisville Metro/Jefferson County Government

3:24-cv-00722 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2024

On April 26, 2021, the Department of Justice announced that it had opened a pattern and practice investigation of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) to assess: all use of force, with a particular focus on use of force against individuals with behavioral health disabilities or individuals engaged in activities protected by the First Amendment; discriminatory practices in conducting stops, searches, seizures, and arrests; department policies, training, and supervision; and LMPD account…

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United States v. City of Portland

3:12-cv-02265 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2012

This lawsuit was the culmination of an 18 month-long investigation of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141. That investigation, which began in June of 2011, was prompted by the high number of PPB officer-involved shootings that involved individuals with mental illness. On September 13, 2012, the DOJ issued a findings letter stating that it found reasonable cause to believ…
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DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

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On August 5, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department (collectively, “PhxPD”). DOJ initiated the investigation under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which prohibits state and local governments from engaging in a pattern or practice of conduct by law enforcement officers that deprives individuals of rights protected by the Constitution or federal law. T…
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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…