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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Gonzalez v. Pritzker

1:10-cv-03105 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 13, 2010

Case Ongoing

On April 13, 2010, rejected U.S. Census Bureau job applicants filed an employment discrimination class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by a coalition of public interest attorney organizations and private counsel, alleged that Census hiring procedures, which pre-screened all applicants with arrest records, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The Census screened out applicants whose names turn up in an FBI database, indi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America and the Vulcan Society v. City of New York

1:07-cv-02067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 21, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed a lawsuit on behalf of United States of America against the City of New York under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division. On July 17, 2007, the Vulcan Society--an organization of Black firefighters, and three individuals, filed an Intervenor's Complaint. Plaintiffs sued to enforce the right of Black and Hispanic candidates to be treated fairly in t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ashker v. Brown

4:09-cv-05796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Case Ongoing

On December 9, 2009, two prisoners at California's Pelican Bay prison who had been kept in solitary confinement for decades filed this § 1983 action against the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, originally proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the "in…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Belton, Jr. v. East Baton Rouge Parish Prison

3:20-cv-00278 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action filed by inmates in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, seeking the release of medically vulnerable people and appropriate hygiene and social distancing measures for those still in the facility. The court denied to enter a temporary restraining order on July 3, and on February 4, 2021 the court granted the defendants' motions to dismiss. On May 5, 2020, an incarcerated person in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison filed this pro se action in the U.S. Dist…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aguilar v. ICE

1:07-cv-08224 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2007

Case Ongoing

On September 20, 2007 several Latino families and individuals, represented by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and private counsel, filed a class action suit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging raids conducted as part of a program called "Operation Return to Sender." Plaintiffs alleged that federal agents unlawfully raided the hom…

Latinos Challenge Constitutionality of Home Raids Conducted by ICE

No Court

Sept. 20, 2007

Class Action Complaint

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division

Sept. 20, 2007

Fourth Amended Class Action Complaint

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security

Dec. 21, 2009

Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Dismiss the Complaint Against Defendants Michael Chertoff, Julie Myers, John Torres, and Marcy Forman

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security

March 29, 2010

Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendants' Chertoff, Myers, Torres, and Forman's Motion to Dismiss

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security

May 19, 2010

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PRISON CONDITIONS
Byrd v. Goord

1:00-cv-02135 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 21, 2000

Case Ongoing

On 03/21/2000, a group of family members, legal counsel and others who received collect telephone calls from New York state inmates filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. (The case was a companion action to state court litigation which appears in the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse as case PC-NY-49.) The defendants were state prison administrators and the telephone service provider (MCI), which had an exclusive contract with the state to provid…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America v. New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority

1:04-cv-04237 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2004

Closed Date: 2012

On September 30, 2004, the United States Department of Justice (D.O.J.) filed a lawsuit under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq. (Title VII) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the New York City Transit Authority. The D.O.J. asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants had violated Title VII by discriminating against Muslim and Sikh employees because of their religion. Muslim and…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Tamayo Espinoza v. Witte

5:20-cv-00106 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 16, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This is a habeas action brought by seven medically vulnerable detainees in Mississippi. They sought release from detention because their underlying medical conditions made them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, which they alleged made their detention unconstitutional. The court denied a temporary restraining order on June 3, 2020. On April 16, 2020, seven medically vulnerable civil immigration detainees held in the Adams County Detention Center brought this suit in the U.S.…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Dada v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

2:20-cv-01093 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is an action brought by immigrant detainees particularly susceptible to a serious COVID-19 infection in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement and requesting release due to COVID-19. The case was dismissed on April 6 for lack of jurisdiction. On April 1, 2020, seventeen immigrant detainees, who are are highly vulnerable to serious injury and death if they contract COVID-19, filed this action in the U.S. District Court for …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Dada v. Witte

1:20-cv-00458 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: 16 medically vulnerable noncitizens in immigration detention centers in Louisiana filed this case in light of the certainty of an outbreak of COVID-19 in their detention facilities. They argued that their continued detention was a violation of the Due Process Clause and the Rehabilitation Act, and sought immediate release. The court granted release of 14 detainees on May 22, 2020; the case is now closed.This case arose out of earlier litigation. in the U.S. District Court for…