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PRISON CONDITIONS
Armstrong v. Bensinger

1:71-02144 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 1971

Closed Date: May 16, 1973

This is a class action brought by people held in the Special Program Unit (SPU) at Stateville Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois. The SPU was part of a trend of “behavior modification units'' designed to control activists and those considered disruptive to the prison. The case arose out of a large fight on June 25, 1971 between 15 guards and people incarcerated and the resulting disciplinary measures. After that incident, the prison was put on general lockdown. In early July 1971, prison staff we…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
Disability Rights South Carolina v. McMaster

3:21-cv-02728 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a South Carolina ban on public primary and secondary school mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2021, the South Carolina legislature passed its general budget, which included a proviso prohibiting school districts from using appropriated funds to impose mask mandates in schools. On August 24, 2021, Disability Rights South Carolina, Able South Carolina, and parents of South Carolina public school students with disabilities sued the South Carolina governor, at…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Arizona Incorporated v. Betlach

2:12-cv-01533 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: July 16, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

This is a case challenging a 2012 Arizona abortion law. In 1980, Congress barred the use of Medicaid funds for elective abortions, but medical providers who offered elective abortions were still eligible to receive Medicaid reimbursement for other healthcare services. However, on May 4, 2012, the Arizona governor signed Arizona Assembly HB 2800 into law, making providers that conducted elective abortion procedures ineligible to receive Medicaid reimbursements for any healthcare services. Arizon…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
All-Options v. Attorney General of Indiana

1:21-cv-01231 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 18, 2021

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenged Indiana abortion restrictions banning the use of telehealth for dispensing abortion medication and requiring physicians to disclose misleading information to patients about the potential to reverse medical abortions. On May 18, 2021, a coalition of medical clinics and physicians filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued Indiana state officials, including the attorney general of Indiana, in their official capaci…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gayle v. Napolitano

3:12-cv-02806 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 10, 2012

Case Ongoing

On May 10, 2012, a group of non-citizens detained in New Jersey immigrant detention facilities filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its component, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Represented by the the ACLU’s Immigrant Rights Project, plaintiffs petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that their continued detention despite strong claims against deportability was a violation of their Fifth Ame…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Castañeda Juarez v. Asher

2:20-cv-00700 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit in which people detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center ("NWIPC"), which houses detainees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), sought their release due to their risk of contracting COVID at this facility. More specifically, petitioners each suffered from underlying medical conditions that placed them at a greater risk of a severe illness or death should they contract COVID. The facility was operated by GEO, a private prison company. On May …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Beshear

3:17-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 4, 2020

On January 7, 2017, Kentucky enacted House Bill 2 ("the Act"), that required physicians to show a woman seeking an abortion ultrasound images of her embryo or fetus, auscultate the heartbeat, and provide a detailed description of the embryo or fetus prior to performing the abortion, even over the patient's objection. The penalties for violating the Act included a fine of up to $100,000 for a first offense and up to $250,000 for each subsequent offense in addition to disciplinary actions brought…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc. v. Parson

2:19-cv-04155 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

On July 30, 2019, the ACLU filed this litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri to challenge Missouri laws that would ban abortion in the state at nearly every stage of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, a non-profit reproductive care provider and a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist, sued the Governor of Missouri, the state Attorney General, the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, the President of the State Medical Board, and the Director of the Department of H…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ahlman v. Barnes

8:20-cv-00835 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 30, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This putative class-action lawsuit, brought by people incarcerated in the Orange County Jail, argued that the county and the sheriff violated the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act by failing to provide adequate care amidst the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the motion for provisional class-certification and partially granted a temporary restraining order, but the defendants appealed and the Supreme C…
CHILD WELFARE
CODING IN PROCESS
Doe v. Abbott

D-1-GN-22-000977 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about transgender children in Texas. For regular updates, please refer to the ACLU resource; we will update this page with the Texas trial court docket when issues with that site resolve. On February 18, 2022, the Texas Attorney General issued an opinion which found that gender-confirmation treatment, including surgeries and hormone-replacement therapy, was child abuse as defined by the Texas Family Code. The Code defines "abuse" as mental, emotional, or physical injuries that ha…