Monell v. Department of Social Services is a case in which the New York City Board of Education awarded compensation for female employees who had been forced to take maternity leave. This case, which...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Martha Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America is a civil rights case which challenged the monopolies that phone companies and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) maintain in the prison...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Jackson v. Allain is a class action lawsuit that challenged Mississippi electoral law on the basis of racial discrimination. In March 1984, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Harris v. McRae is a class action lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenging federal restrictions on Medicaid funds for medically necessary abortions. In the wake of...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Byrd v. Goord is a civil rights case that challenged the collect-call only telephone service for prison inmates operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS). On March 21...
Updated: October 20, 2007
Weinbaum v. Cuomo is a case which asserted that separate and unequal funding of higher education existed in New York State. The Concerned Faculty and Staff of the City University of New York (CUNY)...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Wallace v. Kern is a class action lawsuit filed by CCR and the National Lawyers Guild on behalf of seven indigent inmates awaiting trial in the Brooklyn House of Detention. These men had filed a...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Thornton v. City of Greenville is a lawsuit against the City of Greenville, Mississippi in 1991 that contested the discriminatory election districts of the 1980’s. The release of new census figures...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Taylor v. Hayes is a civil case that went up to the Supreme Court in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) contested Kentucky attorney Dan Taylor’s four-and-a half-year jail sentence for...
Updated: October 9, 2007
StreetWatch v. National Railroad Passenger Corp. is a case which charged Amtrak police with illegally ejecting, harassing, and arresting homeless people. In June 1994, the Center for Constitutional...
Updated: October 9, 2007
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