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PRISON CONDITIONS
Torres v. Milusnic

2:20-cv-04450 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action originally brought by five individuals held at Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S. federal prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to undertake reasonable preventative measures, which allowed the virus to spread to 60% of those in custody. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief for improved conditions of confinement, as well as a writ of habeas corpus for release. On…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Minton v. Dignity Health

CGC 17-558259 | California state trial court

Filed Date: April 19, 2017

Closed Date: July 6, 2022

This case challenged a hospital system’s decision to deny a male transgender patient a hysterectomy as a gender-affirming surgical treatment for gender dysphoria. The plaintiff, represented by the ACLU, filed this action on April 19, 2017, in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, alleging that Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital, violated the Unruh Civil Rights Act by denying him full and equal access to health care treatment. The plaintiff sought declaratory relief,…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings

3:20-cv-02731 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action lawsuit brought on April 20, 2020, by seven individuals in immigration detention at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility (MVDF) and the Yuba County Jail (YCJ), seeking immediate release from unsafe conditions of the jail in light of the global coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the request for TRO on April 29, requiring ICE to provide information and access to detainees to facilitate a process of considering bail requests. On June 9, the court granted …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Vayeghan v. Kelly

2:17-cv-00702 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 27, 2017

This action, filed on January 28, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (in Los Angeles), challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) banning non-U.S. citizen nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the United States. The plaintiff, an Iranian citizen with a U.S. immigrant visa and a U.S. citizen son, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking immediate release from detention and a civil…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Azad v. Trump

2:17-cv-00706 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 28, 2017

On January 29,2017, two lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. initiated this challenge to President Trump's January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) banning non-U.S. citizen nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from being admitted to the U.S. In a joint petition for a writ of habeas corpus and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief, the plaintiffs claimed that, on January 28, they were detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Los Angele…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Kariye v. Mayorkas

2:22-cv-01916 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 24, 2022

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenged U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) policies which subjected Muslim Americans to questioning about their religion. After these interrogations, border officers retained the answers in a law enforcement database for up to 75 years. The plaintiffs asserted that this questioning was part of a broader 20-year practice of border officials targeting Muslim American travelers because of their religion. On March 24, 2022, the plaint…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Casey A. v. Darline P. Robles

2:10-cv-00192 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2010

Case Ongoing

Three people formerly incarcerated at Challenger Memorial Youth Center, a juvenile detention center in Lancaster, California, brought a purported class action on January 12, 2010, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California to challenge the educational services provided at Challenger. The plaintiffs alleged that Challenger provided constitutionally inadequate educational services to incarcerated youths.  The plaintiffs originally brought claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1…
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 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 Court stay…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramos v. Nielsen

3:18-cv-01554 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 12, 2018

Case Ongoing

On March 12, 2018, a group of U.S. children, their non-citizen parents, and other non-citizen adults filed this class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The plaintiffs challenged DHS’ new rule for determining whether or not to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for immigrants from countries facing various crises warranting their nationals to stay in the U.S. rather than be returned home. The plaintiffs argued that the new DHS rule violated thei…