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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 2018 WL 1310160. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and several other government entities and officials, all under the federal asylum statute and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repre…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of California v. Trump

4:19-cv-00872 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 2, 2023

In 2018, President Donald Trump asked Congress to appropriate $5.7 billion for construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. On February 14, 2019, Congress denied that request and instead appropriated only $1.375 billion. Although President Trump signed this appropriations bill, he simultaneously declared a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act, and directed the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and the Treasury to reallocate military and other funds in order to bui…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Anonymous Plaintiffs 1-5 v. Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana

49D01-2209-PL-031056 | Indiana state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge, on religious grounds, to Indiana's post-Dobbs anti-abortion law. Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 1 (SEA 1) criminalized all abortion, from conception onwards, except in some cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormality, or when the pregnant woman faces the risk of death or certain severe health risks. This Indiana ban was the first to make it to the books following the Supreme Court's June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health. The ACLU of Indiana filed this c…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Southwest & Central Florida v. Florida

2022 CA 000912 | Florida state trial court

Filed Date: June 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

On June 1, 2022, Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the ACLU, and a private law firm filed a lawsuit on behalf of several Florida healthcare providers challenging Sections 3 and 4 of House Bill 5 (HB 5) and asserting that it violated the fundamental privacy rights guaranteed by the Florida Constitution. HB 5, scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2022, would ban abortion after fifteen weeks of pregnancy as dated from the first day of a woman’s last menstrual period. Any he…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Oregon v. Washington County

3:24-cv-00235 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case challenges Washington County’s practice of dispatching armed law enforcement officers, rather than qualified mental health professionals, as first responders to mental health emergencies. On February 5, 2024, a private individual and Disability Rights Oregon filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against Washington County and the Washington County Consolidated Communications Agency (“WCCCA”), the County’s 911 dispatch center. The plaintiffs brought th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Flynn v. Doyle

2:06-cv-00537 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 1, 2006

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 2016

On May 1, 2006, attorneys for the National Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation and the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation Inc. filed a civil rights class action in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of female inmates incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional Institution (“TCI”) in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The plaintiffs alleged that their conditions of confinement violated their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United St…
POLICING
Williams v. City of Detroit

2:21-cv-10827 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 13, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case involves the use of Facial Recognition Technology (“FRT”) by the Detroit Police Department (“DPD”). The plaintiff, a Black individual, represented by the ACLU of Michigan and the University of Michigan's Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on April 13, 2021. The plaintiff sued the City of Detroit (“City”), the DPD Chief, and an individual DPD detective under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleged that the DPD used a blur…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a very longstanding class action addressing appropriate treatment of noncitizen children in federal immigration custody. On March 26, 2020, plaintiffs filed an emergency motion seeking prompt release due to COVID-19 risks. On March 27, 2020, the court issued an order to the federal agencies detaining immigrant children to “make continuous efforts” to release the children from custody because of the risk posed to them by COVID-19 and to provide an accounting of their ef…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
GLBT Youth in Iowa Schools Task Force v. Reynolds

4:23-cv-00474 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2023

Case Ongoing

The Iowa governor signed SF 496 into law on May 26, 2023. SF 496 includes an Age-Appropriate Standard, an Identity and Orientation Prohibition, a Library Restriction provision (together, the Book Restriction provisions), and a Parental Notice provision. The Age-Appropriate Standard dictates that school libraries must contain “only age-appropriate materials” which cannot include “any material with descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.” SF 496 defines sex act broadly and does not accoun…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
INS v. St. Cyr

3:99-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 27, 1999

Closed Date: July 25, 2001

This case was prompted by the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act of 1996 (“IIRIRA”) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”), which contained comprehensive amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”). For decades, the INA provided for a discretionary waiver of deportation to allow amelioration of the rigid application of the deportability provisions in the case of legal permanent residents who committed deportable crim…

Docket

Dunbar v. INS

Feb. 12, 1999

Ruling on Petitions for Habeas Corpus

St. Cyr v. INS

Aug. 23, 1999

Opinion

St. Cyr v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Sept. 1, 2000

Brief of Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Association of Federal Defenders, California Public Defenders Association, Committee for Public Counsel Services of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Cook County Public Defender’s Office, Division of Public Defender Services of the State of Connecticut, Florida Public Defender Association, Los Angeles County Public Defender, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State Defenders Association, Public Defender of Florida’s Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, The Legal Aid Society of the City of New York, Washington Defenders Association in Support of Respondent

Supreme Court of the United States

March 28, 2001

SCOTUS Opinion

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr

Supreme Court of the United States

June 25, 2001