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Marcum v. Crews

5:25-cv-00238 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: July 14, 2025

(This summary is temporary while we research the case further). On July 14, 2025, an incarcerated transgender woman sued to prevent the Kentucky Department of Corrections from denying prisoners access to gender-affirming care under Senate Bill 2. The plaintiff sued on behalf of herself and a class of current and future individuals.

Case Is Ongoing

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Jones v. Chopra

1:18-cv-02132 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 2024

This case concerns alleged racial and gender discrimination at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. On September 13, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, plaintiffs brought this suit against the acting director of the CFPB and the Bureau itself on behalf of a putative class of “racial minorities and females who worked for the CFPB as Consumer Response Specialists and who were subjected to discrimination and retaliation by CFPB due to their race or gender.” Filing …

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

EDUCATION
Carroll v. Walden University, LLC

1:22-cv-00051 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 2022

Closed Date: Oct. 17, 2024

This case involves a legal challenge to Walden University, a for-profit university in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for practices which allegedly targeted and exploited students who are black and/or women, and enrolled at the University’s Doctor of Business Administration program (“DBA”). On January 7, 2022, plaintiffs filed suit in U.S. District Court in the District of Maryland against Walden University and Walden E-Learning, which jointly operate Walden University. Plaintiffs, students who had bee…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Ries v. McDonald's USA, LLC

1:20-cv-00002 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 2, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 21, 2022

This case is about pervasive sexual harassment by a manager of a McDonald’s restaurant. It was filed in Michigan state court on November 12, 2019, and removed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan on January 2, 2020. After initially being assigned to District Judge Janet T. Neff, the case was reassigned to District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou in September 2020. Several named plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, filed the suit on be…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence v. Bondi

1:25-cv-00279 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: June 16, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's tying of federal funds to compliance with its political and ideological objectives concerning transgender people, DEI initiatives, and immigration. These federal funds were disbursed by the Office of Violence Against Women (OVW), a branch of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Congress expressly included language in VAWA forbidding discrimination based on gender identity; requiring that programs reach racial minorities and other underserved grou…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

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Equal Means Equal v. Trump

1:25-cv-10806 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 3, 2025

This case is a challenge to the Military Selective Service Act (MSSA), 50 U.S.C. § 3801 et seq., which requires male citizens to register for the draft but bars women from doing so. On April 3, 2025, Equal Means Equal (EME), a nonprofit advocacy group, and a female Massachusetts resident filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They sued President Donald Trump, the Acting Director of the Selective Service System, and the Selective Service System, alleging…

Case Is Ongoing

POLICING
People of the State of New York v. Wallkill

7:01-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2001

Closed Date: Feb. 28, 2006

This case involved misconduct by the Wallkill Police Department (WPD). On January 18, 2001, the Attorney General filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Town of Wallkill (Town), seeking injunctive relief to reform and monitor the WPD. The case was assigned to District Judge Colleen McMahon. The lawsuit was the offshoot of the Attorney General's investigation of the WPD. The investigation revealed a pattern of pervasive misconduct, including…
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S.L. v. United States of America

4:23-cv-06517 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2023

Closed Date: March 18, 2025

This is one of dozens of individual suits filed by women currently or formerly incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin (FCI Dublin), a minimum-security women’s prison in Dublin, California, alleging sexual abuse by prison employees. The facility, which had become known as the “rape club,” was shut down by the federal government in 2024 after eight employees, including the former warden, were charged with sexually abusing inmates over a number of years. In this case, a woman form…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States v. Maryland Department of State Police

1:24-cv-02862 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2024

Closed Date: March 3, 2025

On October 2, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the Maryland Department of State Police (MDSP) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, alleging that MDSP’s employment screening process violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by systematically excluding Black and female applicants from hiring for the entry-level Trooper jobs. Specifically, the DOJ alleged that since at least 2017, the MDSP had engaged in a pattern or practice of uni…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

EDUCATION
Gaines v. National Collegiate Athletic Association

1:24-cv-01109 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 14, 2024

This case is about transgender athletes' participation in NCAA swimming contests. On March 14, 2024, a group of current and former women’s collegiate athletes filed a putative class action lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the University System of Georgia, and other related state and institutional officials, alleging that the NCAA’s policies concerning transgender athletes violated Title IX. They also brought claims under 42 USC § 1983, alleging that the polic…