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Federal Court Hearing Set in Civil Rights Class Action Lawsuit Against Reparations Program
Federal Court Hearing Set in Civil Rights Class Action Lawsuit Against Reparations Program
Judicial Watch announced today that a hearing is scheduled for Friday, September, 26, 2025, in the class action civil rights lawsuit filed against Evanston, Illinois, on behalf of six individuals over the city’s reparations program (Flinn et al. v Evanston (No. 1:24-cv-04269)).
The court ordered the in-person hearing for oral argument on Evanston’s pending motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit over the city’s use of race as an eligibility requirement for a reparations program, which makes $25,000 direct cash payments to black residents and descendants of black residents who lived in Evanston between the years 1919 and 1969.
Judicial Watch alleges that the program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In its response to the city’s motion to dismiss, Judicial Watch states:
[T]he program’s use of a race-based eligibility requirement is presumptively unconstitutional, and remedying societal discrimination is not a compelling government interest. Nor has remedying discrimination from as many as 105 years ago or remedying intergenerational discrimination ever been recognized as a compelling government interest. Among the program’s other fatal flaws is that it uses race as a proxy for discrimination without requiring proof of…
Reparations? My family picked cotton as White sharecroppers. Will we get Reparations, too? They barely survived at one step above starvation. Many people have been treated poorly, but only one group seems to want to win the government lottery with my tax dollars. I never picked cotton, and no living Black person today picked cotton, so get a life and a job already and put the past behind you.