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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
St. Joseph Parish St. Johns v. Nessel

1:22-cv-01154 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2022

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2024

On December 5, 2022, a Catholic church in rural Michigan filed this lawsuit against the state, arguing that new sex and gender protections under civil rights law prevent its elementary school from hiring and teaching according to its faith. The church filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, and named the Michigan Attorney General, Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and Michigan Civil Rights Commission as the defendants. The church …
EDUCATION
Board of Trustees of the California State University v. United States Department of Education

5:26-cv-01970 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 6, 2026

Case Ongoing

This case involves the Trump Administration's attempt to withhold university funding from a school that had a transgender athlete compete on its team for several seasons. The Board of Trustees of the California State University (CSU) filed suit against the United States Department of Education and Secretary Linda McMahon on March 6, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit arose from a dispute over a transgender woman student ("Student 1") who played…

Case Is Ongoing

PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/ CONTRACTING/ ORGANIZATIONAL DISCRIMINATION
United States v. Southern Poverty Law Center

2:26-cr-00139 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 21, 2026

Case Ongoing

On April 22, 2026, the United States Department of Justice filed criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center in the Middle District of Alabama via grand jury indictment. The indictment claimed that Defendant, whose stated mission includes the dismantling of far-right extremist groups in the United States, paid informants to manufacture extremism between 2014 and 2023. The primary mechanism for this allegation, the indictment claimed, was the payment of informants through covert ban…

Case Is Ongoing

PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/ CONTRACTING/ ORGANIZATIONAL DISCRIMINATION
Buck v. Goyim Defense League

3:25-cv-00677 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

In this case, a Black Tennessee resident sought redress after being assaulted during a ten-day rally by a Neo-Nazi organization. In July 2024, a group of Neo-Nazis called the Goyim Defense League (GDL) traveled to Nashville for a ten-day campaign to intimidate and terrorize Jewish and Black residents. The GDL (defendants) wove swastika flags, threatened Black and Jewish people, screamed racist and antisemitic slurs and obscenities, disrupted a public city council meeting, assaulted two young me…

Case Is Ongoing

PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/ CONTRACTING/ ORGANIZATIONAL DISCRIMINATION
American Alliance For Equal Rights v. American Bar Association

1:25-cv-03980 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 12, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges white students’ ineligibility to apply for a scholarship offered by the American Bar Association (ABA).  On April 12, 2025, the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER), a nonprofit organization “dedicated to challenging distinctions and preferences made on the basis of race and ethnicity,” filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the ABA on behalf of “Member A,” a dues-paying member of the AAER who had been admitted to an ABA-acc…

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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lowell v. Lyft, Inc.

7:17-cv-06251 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2017

Case Ongoing

On August 17, 2017, an individual from White Plains, New York who uses a motorized scooter to travel filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by private counsel and the Westchester Independent Living Center, the plaintiff sued Lyft, Inc., alleging a failure to provide accessible service to people with mobility disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. § 12181), the New York State Human Rights…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/ CONTRACTING/ ORGANIZATIONAL DISCRIMINATION
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

2:25-cv-06502 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

In July 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued an administrative subpoena amid concerns that the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) was violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subjecting “Jewish faculty, staff, and other employees to an unlawful hostile work environment based on national origin, religion, and/or race.” The subpoena sought, among other materials, the names and identifying information of employees of Jewish faith or ancestry, as well a…

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PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/ CONTRACTING/ ORGANIZATIONAL DISCRIMINATION
Richie Enterprises LLC v. Bondi

1:26-cv-01085 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 31, 2026

Case Ongoing

Richie Enterprises LLC, an independent wholesale drug distributor operating as Richie Pharmacal, filed this lawsuit against federal defendants including the Attorney General and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on March 31, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit challenged a January 30, 2026 Immediate Suspension Order (ISO) that suspended Richie's controlled substance distribution certificate and authorized seizure of its inventory after the company …

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PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/ CONTRACTING/ ORGANIZATIONAL DISCRIMINATION
Pullum and United States v. Greene

66-00625 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 23, 1966

Closed Date: April 11, 2026

On June 23, 1966, a group of Black citizens of Terrell County, Georgia, represented by private counsel, filed a class action lawsuit against the members of the Terrell County jury commission in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. The plaintiffs alleged that Black residents had been illegally excluded from jury service, that the juries did not represent a cross-section of all qualified people as is constitutionally required, and that Black residents had been deli…
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/ CONTRACTING/ ORGANIZATIONAL DISCRIMINATION
CODING IN PROCESS
DOJ Investigation of George Mason University II

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(This summary is temporary while we investigate the case further). On July 21, 2025, the DOJ Civil Rights Division announced an investigation into George Mason University (GMU) to determine whether the school had discriminated against individuals based on race or national origin, in violation of Title VI.  Only four days earlier, the DOJ announced it had opened an investigation into GMU's hiring and promotion decisions.