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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Paine v. IKEA Holding US, Inc.

2:19-cv-00723 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On February 21, 2019, a 48 year old IKEA employee, Brandon Paine, brought suit against IKEA Holdings US, Inc. (IKEA) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In his complaint, Plaintiff alleged that IKEA promoted four young employees for a position it previously denied the Plaintiff, despite having Plaintiff fill the position on an interim basis. IKEA allegedly demoted Plaintiff several months later, decreasing his …

Settled: Case Closed

JAIL CONDITIONS
Monroe v. Precythe

2:23-cv-04129 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 27, 2023

Closed Date: July 18, 2025

[This summary is in progress while we research the case.] This case is about a transgender inmate who died of HIV complications while being placed in solitary confinement by the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Injunction Granted

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
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

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Edmond v. City of Chicago

1:17-cv-04858 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 29, 2017

Closed Date: July 8, 2024

This case concerns allegations of race discrimination against employees of the City of Chicago. It was filed on June 29, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and assigned to District Judge Joan B. Gottschall. Seven Black employees from the Department of Water Management, represented by private counsel, sued the city and several officials. Plaintiffs alleged a hostile work environment and discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. Black employee…

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)

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
Lenhardt v. Democratic Party HQ

5:21-cv-04001 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2021

This case involved allegations that certain individual politicians and the Democratic National Committee violated federal election campaign and consumer protection laws by sending campaign-related automated text messages to the plaintiff. On January 19, 2021, a pro se plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiff named as defendants certain individual politicians and “Democratic Party HQ” (later corrected on the docket as “Democratic …
EDUCATION
United States investigation of Columbia University

NA (Out of court) | No Court

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) The Trump Administration and Columbia University settled their dispute on July 23, 2025; the University agreed to pay $200 million over three years, and the Administration agreed to restore many hundreds of millions of dollars in previously suspended or withdrawn grants and contracts.  

Administrative Matter Ongoing