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POLICING
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, …

Administrative Stay Granted

POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

No Docket | No Court

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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Navajo Nation v. Reagan

3:18-cv-08329 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 17, 2022

On November 20, 2018, Plaintiffs, a federally recognized Indian Tribe and six individual enrolled members of the Tribe, filed a verified Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, against the Arizona Secretary of State and the County Recorders and County Election Directors for three counties. Plaintiffs were represented by the Navajo Nation Department of Justice. Plaintiffs alleged that during the State of Arizona’s November 2018 Gene…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska v. Thurston County, Nebraska

8:23-cv-00020 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2023

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2024

This case is about two American Indian tribes and a handful of members of each tribe who also reside in and are registered to vote in Thurston County, Nebraska challenging Thurston County’s redistricting plan for the Thurston County Board of Supervisor districts. The plaintiffs alleged that the new redistricting plan diluted the voting strength of Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native voters and voters from the reservations of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and the Omaha Tribe of Nebra…

Settled: Case Closed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Jaeger

3:22-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2022

In this case, the Eighth Circuit held that the Voting Rights Act is not individually enforceable.  Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh has granted an administrative stay, while the Supreme Court considers a longer-lived stay pending review.  The case began as a claim of vote dilution by two Native American tribes through the "packing and cracking" of districts in North Dakota. On February 7, 2022, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe, along with individual Native A…

Injunction Granted

Reversed

EDUCATION
Johnson v. The University of Oklahoma

5:24-cv-00495 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 15, 2024

This is a case about colleges' consideration of race in distribution of financial aid. On May 15, 2024, three white students filed a putative class action lawsuit against the University of Oklahoma and a series of University officials in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. The plaintiffs alleged that the University discriminated in favor of Black students when awarding financial aid. They sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's Eq…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Johnson v. Cody-Kilgore Unified School District

4:21-cv-03103 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: May 17, 2021

This case was filed after two Lakota children had their hair cut twice, contrary to their traditional and religious beliefs, by school employees during lice checks, the second time after the parents of the children voiced concerns. Two parents and two students, represented by the ACLU of Nebraska, filed suit against the Cody-Kilgore Unified School District and two school employees in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska on May 17, 2021, alleging that the school had an unwritten …

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Pueblo of Isleta v. Secretary of the Department of the Interior

1:25-cv-00696 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 7, 2025

This case challenged the Bureau of Indian Education’s (BIE) reorganization/restructuring and reduction of staff at BIE’s central and regional offices and the two BIE-operated post-secondary institutions—Haskell Indian Nations University and Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI)—in February 2025. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) In February 2025, without consulting with federally-r…

Case Is Ongoing

PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
American Alliance for Equal Rights v. McDonald's Corporation

3:25-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2025

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2025

On January 12, 2025 American Alliance for Equal Rights filed suit against McDonald’s Corporation in the Middle District of Tennessee, alleging that the company’s HACER program was racially discriminatory against non-Hispanic individuals. Plaintiff was represented by private counsel. McDonald’s HACER program awarded thousands of dollars in scholarships to 30 Hispanic students nationwide. Plaintiffs alleged that the program violated §1981 of Title VI, which prohibits companies from discriminating…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Pernell v. Florida Board of Governors of the State University System

4:22-cv-00304 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2022

A group of Florida educators and students, including a constitutional law professor and several professors of race and gender studies, filed this complaint against Florida and various Boards of Governors, trustees, and commissioners of Florida public colleges and universities. Plaintiffs filed suit on August 18, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, and were represented by the ACLU, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and a private la…