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Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services

3:21-cv-02722 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2021

Closed Date: Feb. 4, 2022

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)COVID-19 Summary: In this case, Florida sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021. The judge denied the temporary restraining order on November 20, 2021. The state appealed and requested the district court to grant an injunction pending appeal, which was denied on November 27. Florida next moved in the Eleventh Circuit for…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Middleton v. Ward

5:21-cv-00334 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

This class-action lawsuit challenges the conditions of confinement in the segregation units of the Georgia State Prison (GSP). The plaintiffs are men in held in the prison's "Tier II Program" and other solitary confinement housing units, many of whom suffer from serious mental illness. Represented by attorneys from the Southern Center for Human Rights and a private law firm, the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on September 10, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, wh…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Carden v. Town of Harpersville

2:15-cv-01381 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2015

Closed Date: May 18, 2018

This case is a follow on case to Burdette v. Town of Harpersville, Alabama (CJ-AL-0005). That was a class action case in Alabama state court in which people were "supervised" by the private probation company Judicial Correctional Services, Inc., (JCS) at the behest of the Harpersville Municipal court. The plaintiffs challenged JSC's exorbitant fees and practice of jailing people who were unable to pay them. The case resulted in a temporary restraining order, the abolition of the municipal court…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
White v. Shwedo

2:19-cv-03083 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 17, 2021

On October 30, 2019, several people whose drivers licenses had been suspended filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Director of the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and a Judge of Administrative Law who oversaw South Carolina DMV hearings. The plaintiffs filed their complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina; it was assigned to Judge Richard M. Gergel. Represented by various public interest law organizations, including the ACLU and th…
CHILD WELFARE
B.B. v. Hochul

1:21-cv-06229 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit challenged New York's practice of rejecting people who apply to be foster parents to relatives because of past convictions or only charges under state, federal, and city rules. The complaint was filed on November 10, 2021 in the Eastern District of New York and assigned to Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall. The named plaintiffs were children who had been involuntarily removed from their parents or guardians by the New York City Administration for Children's Service (ACS) and w…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
MadKudu Inc. v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

5:20-cv-02653 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 16, 2020

Case Ongoing

This was a nationwide class action filed by U.S. businesses that challenged the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services's (USCIS) pattern and practice of arbitrarily denying H-1B nonimmigrant employment-based petitions to classify market research analyst positions as "specialty occupations." On April 16, 2020, companies who had such petitions denied filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs sued USCIS and their Senior Official P…
EDUCATION
E.E. v. California

3:21-cv-07585 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

On September 28, 2021, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against the state of California, the California Board of Education, and the California Department of Education. Plaintiffs were students with disabilities and an organization that advocates for disabled students and their families. They were represented by Disability Rights California. They sought to represent a class of "all California students who, now or in the future, have an Individual Education Plan and whose parent, guardian …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Drewniak v. C.B.P.

1:20-cv-00852 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

After being stopped and detained without a warrant at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoint 90 miles from the Canadian border, the plaintiff brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire on August 11, 2020, challenging CBP's practice of using checkpoints for general crime control. The plaintiff sued CBP, U.S. Border Patrol, the Deputy Chief Border Patrol Agent for the Swanton Sector (which policed some counties of New Hampshire), and the two a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
K.O. & E. O. v. United States

4:20-cv-12015 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

On November 9, 2020, several asylum-seeking immigrant parents and children forcefully separated upon arrival in the United States filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. District Judge Timothy S. Hillman was assigned to the case. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, filed suit under the Federal Torts Claims Act, seeking monetary damages as well as injunctive relief. They alleged the United States government was liable for…
EDUCATION
Black Emergency Response Team v. O'Connor

5:21-cv-01022 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2021

Case Ongoing

On October 19, 2022, the plaintiffs, who included both individuals and organizations, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. The individuals were Oklahoma students and teachers and the organizations included the Oklahoma NAACP, the University of Oklahoma Chapter of American Association of University Professors, and an Oklahoma University student organization, Black Emergency Response Team. Collectively, they challenged a 2021 Oklahoma state law known…