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Key cases

ACLU Seeks Public Records To Determine Constitutionality Of Foreclosure Proceedings In Florida

Judge Slams City for FDNY Refusal to Hire New Firefighters

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 10/19/2010
  • more info

Southern Poverty Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit Targeting State-Funded Juvenile Facility in Florida

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 10/08/2010
  • more info

Environmental Groups Intervene to Defend U.S. EPA Air Rules

Connecticut Must Complete Court-Ordered Child Welfare Reform, Federal Judge Rules

Sierra Club and Earthjustice Sue U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Uphold Clean Air in Texas

Former Detainees Join Federal Court Challenge to Post-9/11 Racial Profiling and Abuse of Muslim, Arab and South Asian Men

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 09/13/2010
  • more info

Hazleton, PA Anti-Immigrant Law Is Unconstitutional, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Federal Court Orders Patriot Coal to Pay $45 Million to Treat Toxic Selenium from W. Va. Coal Mines, Holds Patriot in Contempt

Lambda Legal and HIV-Positive Retiree Settle Lawsuit Against North Little Rock Assisted Living Facility

NSCLC Says Virginia Health Care Ruling is Purely Procedural

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Law School Non-Discrimination Policy: Lambda Legal Welcomes the Decision

Court Lifts Moratorium, Green Lights More Deepwater Drilling in the Gulf

Canadian RCMP Conducting Criminal Investigation of U.S. and Syrian Officials for Maher Arar's Rendition to Torture

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 06/14/2010
  • more info

Del Monte Settlement Benefits Migrant Workers

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 06/11/2010
  • more info

Victory for Transgender People in Wisconsin Prisons

One is a Lonely Number on the Eighth Circuit

  • By: National Women's Law Center
  • 06/02/2010
  • more info

California Supreme Court Set To Address Workers’ Meal And Rest Break Rights

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 05/27/2010
  • more info

South Dakota Agrees To Reinstate American Indian Voters Unlawfully Removed From Rolls

Fishermen and Conservationists Sue U.S. Department of Interior For Illegal Waivers of Blowout and Spill Response Planning in Gulf of Mexico Disaster

Day Laborer Organizations Challenge Unconstitutional Anti-Immigrant Ordinance in Oyster Bay

Obama Administration Sides with Bush DOJ, Asks Supreme Court to Keep Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar from His Day in Court

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 05/13/2010
  • more info

New Bureau of Prisons Rule Discloses Policies and Conditions in Experimental Segregation Units

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 04/06/2010
  • more info

Who Owns Your Genes? You Do.

  • By: American Civil Liberties Union
  • 03/30/2010
  • more info

Lawyers' Committee and Co-Counsel File Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Long Island Exclusionary Zoning Fair Housing Case

  • By: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • 03/26/2010
  • more info

AIDS Discrimination Victim Gets New Trial

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 03/25/2010
  • more info

Fifth Circuit Remands English Language Learner Case to Determine Cause of "Alarming" Failure Rate of Students

Women Guestworkers Challenge Seafood Company's Gender-Based Job Restrictions

Georgia Child Welfare Practices May Risk Kids’ Lives, Children’s Rights Advocates Charge in Federal Court

SPLC Sues Mississippi Over Mental Health System for Children on Medicaid

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 03/10/2010
  • more info

MALDEF Enters Statewide Lawsuit to Address Inadequate Funding for English Learners and At-Risk Students

Sex-Segregated Education on Trial Today

Kaiser Sued For Discrimination Against Children With Autism; Accused Of “Sham Excuses” For Refusal To Treat Disabled Children

  • By: Disability Rights Advocates
  • 02/11/2010
  • more info

Lawsuit to Reform Harmful Oklahoma Child Welfare System May Proceed as Class Action, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Disability Groups Win Landmark Case Affirming Rights of People with Mental Disabilities in State-Funded Adult Homes

  • By: Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • 09/09/2009
  • more info

Public Justice Wins Second Major Decision Requiring Coal Mine Cleanups

Trumped-Up Reasons For Termination Can Prove Retaliatory Discharge

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 08/21/2009
  • more info

Native, Green Groups Oppose State Department Dirty Pipeline Permit: Court challenge is being prepared to overturn decision

Landmark Housing Desegregation Victory

  • By: Anti-Discrimination Center
  • 08/17/2009
  • more info

Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss in Lambda Legal’s Case of Evicted HIV-Positive Retired Minister

Advocates Appeal Rhode Island Decision Barring Children from Seeking Child Welfare Reform in Federal Court

President Obama Nominates Edward M. Chen for Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern California

  • By: Equal Justice Society
  • 08/07/2009
  • more info

Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation to Supreme Court is Historic Moment for People with Disabilities

  • By: The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • 08/06/2009
  • more info

Justices Indicate They May Uphold Voter ID Rules

  • By: The New York Times
  • 01/10/2008
  • more info

Court: Prison Program Unconstitutional

Justices Express Skepticism in a Discrimination Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/03/2007
  • more info

E.P.A. Is Sued by 12 States Over Reports on Chemicals

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/29/2007
  • more info

Court won't review San Diego home hunts

  • By: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • 11/26/2007
  • more info

Gitmo Policy Faces Another Supreme Court Test

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Gun Control Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/20/2007
  • more info

Bush Vetoes Health and Education Bill, Signs Huge Pentagon Funding Increase

Health insurer tied bonuses to dropping sick policyholders

  • By: The Los Angeles Times
  • 11/09/2007
  • more info

Supreme Imbalance: Of Liberals and Conservatives

  • By: The Huffington Post
  • 10/31/2007
  • more info

Supreme Court to review Exxon Valdez damages

US top court takes up case of Muslim who alleges harassment in prisons, jails over faith

  • By: International Herald Tribune
  • 10/29/2007
  • more info

Deluded Judge Suggests Domestic Violence Victim Wanted to Be Hit

A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/23/2007
  • more info

Repeat Offender Smithfield Sues Union

  • By: Political Affairs Magazine
  • 10/23/2007
  • more info

California plans global warming suit against EPA

  • By: The Daily News Los Angeles
  • 10/22/2007
  • more info

Two Migrant Workers Sue Pilgrim’s

  • By: The Daily News Record
  • 10/20/2007
  • more info

Deciphering the State of the Death Penalty

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/19/2007
  • more info

Judge blocks effort to use no-match letters to fire illegal workers

  • By: The San Francisco Chronicle
  • 10/11/2007
  • more info

Sexual Stereotypes, Civil Rights and a Suit About Both

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/10/2007
  • more info

Going to Court, but Not in Time to Live

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/08/2007
  • more info

Executions On Hold Across US

Supreme Court to Hear Key Civil Rights Cases This Term

Guantanamo inmates' rights to get a fresh look

Justices Begin Work on a Polarizing New Docket

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/01/2007
  • more info

E.E.O.C. Files Lawsuit Against Bloomberg L.P.

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/28/2007
  • more info

States watch new U.S. Supreme Court term

Judge Rules Provisions in Patriot Act to Be Illegal

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/27/2007
  • more info

Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/26/2007
  • more info

High court to decide constitutionality of voter ID law

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 09/25/2007
  • more info

Justices to judge constitutionality of lethal injections

  • By: TheAssociated Press
  • 09/25/2007
  • more info

State's primary is in hands of top court

Court: Clinic need not tell parents about emergency contraception

The Dissenter

  • By: The New York Times Magazine
  • 09/23/2007
  • more info

State abortion clinic rules suspended

Small Louisiana town braces for one of biggest protests since '60s

  • By: The Edmonton Journal
  • 09/20/2007
  • more info

Civil rights' ONLINE movement

Maryland High Court Upholds State Law Banning Gay Marriage

  • By: Capital News Service
  • 09/19/2007
  • more info

Ground Zero Workers Sue Employers Over Alleged Labor Law Violations, According to Workers' Legal Team

Court rules against automakers in global warming case

  • By: The Detroit Free Press
  • 09/12/2007
  • more info

Jury Consulted the Bible, but Death Sentence Stands

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/11/2007
  • more info

New Focus on the Effects of Life Tenure

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/10/2007
  • more info

Judge Voids F.B.I. Tool Granted by Patriot Act

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/07/2007
  • more info

An Overlooked Problem with Title VII's Protections Against Discrimination: Procedural Obstacles to Invoking the Law

Abortion Foes See Validation for New Tactic

  • By: The New York Times
  • 05/22/2007
  • more info

Ruling May Alter NJ's Housing Landscape; Meadowlands Panel Told to Build Afforable Units

In 4th Decade On High Court, Stevens Stays True to Form

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 05/21/2007
  • more info

Massachusetts Challenges Federal Energy Rules

  • By: Environmental News Network
  • 05/08/2007
  • more info

English-Only Workplaces Spark Lawsuits

Supreme court rules against Bush in global warming case

Appeals Court Rules Union Pacific Railroad's Policy To Not Provide Coverage for Contraceptives Not Discriminatory

  • By: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • 03/19/2007
  • more info

New York Court Upholds Westchester County Executive Order Resepecting Out-of-State Marriages of Same-Sex Couples

U.S. Accuses Walgreen of Racial Bias

  • By: The New York Times
  • 03/08/2007
  • more info

Student, 16, Finds Allies in His Fight Over Religion

  • By: The New York Times
  • 02/19/2007
  • more info

Jury finds Curtiss-Wright liable in gender bias case

What's happening in the courts

ACLU Seeks Public Records To Determine Constitutionality Of Foreclosure Proceedings In Florida

Judge Slams City for FDNY Refusal to Hire New Firefighters

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 10/19/2010
  • more info

Southern Poverty Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit Targeting State-Funded Juvenile Facility in Florida

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 10/08/2010
  • more info

Environmental Groups Intervene to Defend U.S. EPA Air Rules

Connecticut Must Complete Court-Ordered Child Welfare Reform, Federal Judge Rules

Sierra Club and Earthjustice Sue U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Uphold Clean Air in Texas

Former Detainees Join Federal Court Challenge to Post-9/11 Racial Profiling and Abuse of Muslim, Arab and South Asian Men

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 09/13/2010
  • more info

Hazleton, PA Anti-Immigrant Law Is Unconstitutional, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Federal Court Orders Patriot Coal to Pay $45 Million to Treat Toxic Selenium from W. Va. Coal Mines, Holds Patriot in Contempt

Lambda Legal and HIV-Positive Retiree Settle Lawsuit Against North Little Rock Assisted Living Facility

NSCLC Says Virginia Health Care Ruling is Purely Procedural

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Law School Non-Discrimination Policy: Lambda Legal Welcomes the Decision

Court Lifts Moratorium, Green Lights More Deepwater Drilling in the Gulf

Canadian RCMP Conducting Criminal Investigation of U.S. and Syrian Officials for Maher Arar's Rendition to Torture

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 06/14/2010
  • more info

Del Monte Settlement Benefits Migrant Workers

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 06/11/2010
  • more info

Victory for Transgender People in Wisconsin Prisons

One is a Lonely Number on the Eighth Circuit

  • By: National Women's Law Center
  • 06/02/2010
  • more info

California Supreme Court Set To Address Workers’ Meal And Rest Break Rights

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 05/27/2010
  • more info

South Dakota Agrees To Reinstate American Indian Voters Unlawfully Removed From Rolls

Fishermen and Conservationists Sue U.S. Department of Interior For Illegal Waivers of Blowout and Spill Response Planning in Gulf of Mexico Disaster

Day Laborer Organizations Challenge Unconstitutional Anti-Immigrant Ordinance in Oyster Bay

Obama Administration Sides with Bush DOJ, Asks Supreme Court to Keep Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar from His Day in Court

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 05/13/2010
  • more info

New Bureau of Prisons Rule Discloses Policies and Conditions in Experimental Segregation Units

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 04/06/2010
  • more info

Who Owns Your Genes? You Do.

  • By: American Civil Liberties Union
  • 03/30/2010
  • more info

Lawyers' Committee and Co-Counsel File Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Long Island Exclusionary Zoning Fair Housing Case

  • By: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • 03/26/2010
  • more info

AIDS Discrimination Victim Gets New Trial

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 03/25/2010
  • more info

Fifth Circuit Remands English Language Learner Case to Determine Cause of "Alarming" Failure Rate of Students

Women Guestworkers Challenge Seafood Company's Gender-Based Job Restrictions

Georgia Child Welfare Practices May Risk Kids’ Lives, Children’s Rights Advocates Charge in Federal Court

SPLC Sues Mississippi Over Mental Health System for Children on Medicaid

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 03/10/2010
  • more info

MALDEF Enters Statewide Lawsuit to Address Inadequate Funding for English Learners and At-Risk Students

Sex-Segregated Education on Trial Today

Kaiser Sued For Discrimination Against Children With Autism; Accused Of “Sham Excuses” For Refusal To Treat Disabled Children

  • By: Disability Rights Advocates
  • 02/11/2010
  • more info

Lawsuit to Reform Harmful Oklahoma Child Welfare System May Proceed as Class Action, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Disability Groups Win Landmark Case Affirming Rights of People with Mental Disabilities in State-Funded Adult Homes

  • By: Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • 09/09/2009
  • more info

Public Justice Wins Second Major Decision Requiring Coal Mine Cleanups

Trumped-Up Reasons For Termination Can Prove Retaliatory Discharge

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 08/21/2009
  • more info

Native, Green Groups Oppose State Department Dirty Pipeline Permit: Court challenge is being prepared to overturn decision

Landmark Housing Desegregation Victory

  • By: Anti-Discrimination Center
  • 08/17/2009
  • more info

Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss in Lambda Legal’s Case of Evicted HIV-Positive Retired Minister

Advocates Appeal Rhode Island Decision Barring Children from Seeking Child Welfare Reform in Federal Court

President Obama Nominates Edward M. Chen for Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern California

  • By: Equal Justice Society
  • 08/07/2009
  • more info

Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation to Supreme Court is Historic Moment for People with Disabilities

  • By: The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • 08/06/2009
  • more info

Justices Indicate They May Uphold Voter ID Rules

  • By: The New York Times
  • 01/10/2008
  • more info

Court: Prison Program Unconstitutional

Justices Express Skepticism in a Discrimination Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/03/2007
  • more info

E.P.A. Is Sued by 12 States Over Reports on Chemicals

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/29/2007
  • more info

Court won't review San Diego home hunts

  • By: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • 11/26/2007
  • more info

Gitmo Policy Faces Another Supreme Court Test

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Gun Control Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/20/2007
  • more info

Bush Vetoes Health and Education Bill, Signs Huge Pentagon Funding Increase

Health insurer tied bonuses to dropping sick policyholders

  • By: The Los Angeles Times
  • 11/09/2007
  • more info

Supreme Imbalance: Of Liberals and Conservatives

  • By: The Huffington Post
  • 10/31/2007
  • more info

Supreme Court to review Exxon Valdez damages

US top court takes up case of Muslim who alleges harassment in prisons, jails over faith

  • By: International Herald Tribune
  • 10/29/2007
  • more info

Deluded Judge Suggests Domestic Violence Victim Wanted to Be Hit

A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/23/2007
  • more info

Repeat Offender Smithfield Sues Union

  • By: Political Affairs Magazine
  • 10/23/2007
  • more info

California plans global warming suit against EPA

  • By: The Daily News Los Angeles
  • 10/22/2007
  • more info

Two Migrant Workers Sue Pilgrim’s

  • By: The Daily News Record
  • 10/20/2007
  • more info

Deciphering the State of the Death Penalty

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/19/2007
  • more info

Judge blocks effort to use no-match letters to fire illegal workers

  • By: The San Francisco Chronicle
  • 10/11/2007
  • more info

Sexual Stereotypes, Civil Rights and a Suit About Both

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/10/2007
  • more info

Going to Court, but Not in Time to Live

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/08/2007
  • more info

Executions On Hold Across US

Supreme Court to Hear Key Civil Rights Cases This Term

Guantanamo inmates' rights to get a fresh look

Justices Begin Work on a Polarizing New Docket

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/01/2007
  • more info

E.E.O.C. Files Lawsuit Against Bloomberg L.P.

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/28/2007
  • more info

States watch new U.S. Supreme Court term

Judge Rules Provisions in Patriot Act to Be Illegal

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/27/2007
  • more info

Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/26/2007
  • more info

High court to decide constitutionality of voter ID law

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 09/25/2007
  • more info

Justices to judge constitutionality of lethal injections

  • By: TheAssociated Press
  • 09/25/2007
  • more info

State's primary is in hands of top court

Court: Clinic need not tell parents about emergency contraception

The Dissenter

  • By: The New York Times Magazine
  • 09/23/2007
  • more info

State abortion clinic rules suspended

Small Louisiana town braces for one of biggest protests since '60s

  • By: The Edmonton Journal
  • 09/20/2007
  • more info

Civil rights' ONLINE movement

Maryland High Court Upholds State Law Banning Gay Marriage

  • By: Capital News Service
  • 09/19/2007
  • more info

Ground Zero Workers Sue Employers Over Alleged Labor Law Violations, According to Workers' Legal Team

Court rules against automakers in global warming case

  • By: The Detroit Free Press
  • 09/12/2007
  • more info

Jury Consulted the Bible, but Death Sentence Stands

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/11/2007
  • more info

New Focus on the Effects of Life Tenure

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/10/2007
  • more info

Judge Voids F.B.I. Tool Granted by Patriot Act

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/07/2007
  • more info

An Overlooked Problem with Title VII's Protections Against Discrimination: Procedural Obstacles to Invoking the Law

Abortion Foes See Validation for New Tactic

  • By: The New York Times
  • 05/22/2007
  • more info

Ruling May Alter NJ's Housing Landscape; Meadowlands Panel Told to Build Afforable Units

In 4th Decade On High Court, Stevens Stays True to Form

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 05/21/2007
  • more info

Massachusetts Challenges Federal Energy Rules

  • By: Environmental News Network
  • 05/08/2007
  • more info

English-Only Workplaces Spark Lawsuits

Supreme court rules against Bush in global warming case

Appeals Court Rules Union Pacific Railroad's Policy To Not Provide Coverage for Contraceptives Not Discriminatory

  • By: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • 03/19/2007
  • more info

New York Court Upholds Westchester County Executive Order Resepecting Out-of-State Marriages of Same-Sex Couples

U.S. Accuses Walgreen of Racial Bias

  • By: The New York Times
  • 03/08/2007
  • more info

Student, 16, Finds Allies in His Fight Over Religion

  • By: The New York Times
  • 02/19/2007
  • more info

Jury finds Curtiss-Wright liable in gender bias case