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Whitmer v. Linderman

2022-193498-CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 7, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case was filed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, to prevent enforcement of Michigan’s long-dormant anti-abortion law. Michigan’s dormant 1931 felony abortion law, MCL 750.14, criminalizes providing an abortion in almost all circumstances and threatens physicians who perform the procedure with imprisonment. MCL 750.14 was never repealed and has only gone unenforced because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, overruled on June 24, 2022, to protect the right to abortion.…
POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
Guardian News v. Chicago Police Department

2015-CH-06157 | Illinois state trial court

Filed Date: April 13, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2017

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PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
CODING IN PROCESS
Dirar v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.

2:22-cv-01076 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) Two Muslim men were removed from an Alaska Airlines flight following a fellow passenger's complaint that they were texting in Arabic. The two men, represented by the Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), filed this case against Alaska Airlines for violating their civil rights.
DISABILITY RIGHTS
K.O. by and through his parent and guardian J.O. v. Heather Mueller, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education

0:21-cv-01837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2021

Case Ongoing

On August 12, 2021, the Minnesota P&A (the Minnesota Disability Law Center), filed this class action lawsuit in Minnesota federal district court against the State of Minnesota and its State Department of Education challenging Minnesota’s special education statute that ends special education eligibility on July 1 of the year a student turns 21.  Jason Kim, of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP,  was pro bono co-counsel with the P&A. The class action plaintiffs contended that the state statut…
POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
Ger Chong Ze Chang v. County of Siskiyou

2:22-at-00807 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This putative class action lawsuit was filed by four Asian Americans against the Siskiyou County officials and the Siskiyou sheriff’s department, alleging that the county waged a systematic campaign of racist hostility and persecution, including restricting Asian Americans' right to water and executing unlawful traffic stops, search and seizure practices, and property liens that are blatantly aimed at Asian Americans.
PRISON CONDITIONS
Anderson v. Dept of Corrections

COA Case Number: 256506 | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: 2003

Closed Date: April 25, 2007

In 1996, female prisoners filed a complaint on behalf of themselves and all similarly-situated female prisoners against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), its directors, and various wardens and deputies in the prison system. Plaintiffs the filed suit in the Washtenaw County (MI) circuit court specifically alleging eight causes of action based on the treatment of women prisoners in the state's prison system. Specifically, they alleged defendants': (1) failure to prevent and remedy…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Richardson v. Kane

3:11-cv-02266 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2011

Case Ongoing

On December 7, 2011, plaintiff, a male prisoner, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Pennsylvania under Bivens against the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiff, represented by public interest lawyers, asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages on behalf of himself and an injunction preventing defendants from continuing their unconstitutional housing, recreation, and restraint patterns, practices and policies on behalf of all current and future U…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Shelton v. Kane

3:11-cv-01618 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2011

Closed Date: 2017

On August 29, 2011, plaintiff, a male Muslim prisoner, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Pennsylvania under Bivens and the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) against the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiff, represented by public interest lawyers, asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages on behalf of himself and an injunction preventing defendants from continuing their unconstitutional housing, recreation, and restraint patterns, practices and pol…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gartrell v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

1:10-cv-02160 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 20, 2010

Closed Date: 2013

On October 20, 2010, a Muslim inmate confined to the Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit in the the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act against the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiff, represented by counsel from the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project and private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, declaratory relief, and monetary damages, claiming that his right t…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Seitz v. Allegheny County

2:16-cv-01879 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2016

Case Ongoing

On December 19, 2016, five pregnant women in Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) brought this suit against Allegheny County and jail officers in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Suing under § 1983, they alleged violations of their Eighth Amendment rights to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and their Fourteenth Amendment right to notice and opportunity to be heard via the Due Process Clause. Represented by the ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Institutiona…