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Hopson v. Baltimore / Carter v. Baltimore City Police Dept.

1:04-cv-03842 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2004

Closed Date: March 19, 2015

On December 6, 2004, a group of African-American police officers brought a lawsuit against their employer, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), as well as various other municipal entities, including the City of Baltimore and the Baltimore City Council, in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs alleged that they had been discriminated against in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e and giving rise to a cause of action …
EDUCATION
Charles H. v. District of Columbia

1:21-cv-00997 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 9, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the District of Columbia's alleged failure to provide special education and related services to incarcerated students during the COVID-19 pandemic.  D.C. Public Schools was the service provider for certain high school students with disabilities and special education needs, who were enrolled in the D.C. Jail's on-site school through the Inspiring Youth Program (IYP).  IYP Classes for were suspended on March 13, 2020.  For over a year, however, IYP students alleged that instr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McBride v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-11222 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2015

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2015, three prisoner-plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), alleging that MDOC was discriminating against them and other deaf and hard of hearing prisoners. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and was assigned to Judge Sean Cox. The plaintiffs were represented by Michigan Protection and Advocacy, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and private counsel. The plaintiffs al…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hallinan v. Scarantino

5:20-ct-03333 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This putative class action lawsuit and habeas petition was filed by ten incarcerated individuals at Federal Correctional Complex Butner on October 26, 2020, seeking safety remedies and release. On May 11, 2021, the Court stayed the case. Note that this is a successor case to Hallinan v. Scarantino, 5:20-hc-02088 (E.D.N.C.). This putative class action lawsuit and habeas petition challenged the COVID-19 response at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) Butner, alleging inadequ…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Heyer v. United States Bureau of Prisons

5:11-ct-03118 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: June 20, 2011

Case Ongoing

On June 20, 2011, two deaf prisoners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against the federal Bureau of Prisons. Represented by private counsel and the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit under Bivens and claimed violations of the Rehabilitation Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. In addition, the plaintiffs alleged violations of their Fifth Amendment due process rights, First …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Irving v. Berryhill

3:17-cv-01730 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

Several blind social security recipients and the National Federation of the Blind, Inc. (NFB) brought this lawsuit against the Social Security Administration (SSA) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Plaintiffs alleged that the SSA did not provide blind people with accessible kiosks at its offices. In their complaint, Plaintiffs alleged that the SSA was violating blind individuals' civil rights by failing to provide access to check-in kiosks for blind individuals…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Costa v. Bazron

1:19-cv-03185 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is an ongoing case to secure sanitary water in a psychiatric hospital in which the plaintiffs filed additional motions for temporary restraining orders in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, requesting release and mitigation measures including: adequate mental health care, social distancing, and hygiene products. The court granted a temporary restraining order on April 25 and a preliminary injunction on May 24, ordering the defendants to isolate patients exposed to the virus …
POLICING
Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump

1:20-cv-01469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

Black Lives Matter - D.C. and several individual protestors brought this lawsuit on June 4, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of D.C. in response to President Trump's use of military police to disperse peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square Park on June 1st, 2020. Protesters had gathered as part of the nationwide outcry following the police killing of George Floyd. Around 6:30 in the evening, following an order to clear the square from Attorney General Barr, military and federal…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Carr v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

2:14-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2014

Case Ongoing

On January 3, 2014, Muslim prisoners filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for failing to provide certified halal meals to the prisoners. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the failure to provide a halal-certified diet was a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-1(c) and a violation of the Fifth Amendments' equal protection requir…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America

1:00-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2000

Case Ongoing

On February 16, 2000, private attorneys, a public defender, and counsel from the D.C. Prisoners' Legal Services Project filed this § 1983 class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of incarcerated persons, their family members, legal counsel, and other recipients of telephone calls from prisoners housed in prison facilities operated by the defendant private corporation, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA -- the largest operator of private prison faciliti…