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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Monk v. United States

3:22-cv-01503 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2022

Case Ongoing

On November 28, 2022, a black veteran filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the United States of America for the acts of its employees under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and state law. The case was assigned to Judge Janet Bond Arterton. Represented by Yale Law School's Veterans Legal Services Clinic at the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, the plaintiff alleged that the Department of Veteran Affairs and its predecessor, t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Manker v. Spencer

3:18-cv-00372 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: March 2, 2018

Case Ongoing

Thousands of United States Sailors and Marines are deployed to combat zones across the globe, and return home suffering from the invisible wounds of war, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or traumatic brain injury (TBI). Sometimes these mental health issues indirectly lead to less-than-Honorable discharges, resulting in permanent stigma and preventing veterans from accessing essential benefits like the GI bill and much-needed mental health care. The Naval Discharge Review Board ad…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association v. Lamont

UWY-CV20-6054309-S | Connecticut state trial court

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Closed Date: June 8, 2020

COVID-19 summary: The ACLU of Connecticut filed this suit on April 3, 2020 asking the court to intervene and force the Governor of Connecticut and the state's Correction Commissioner to reduce the number of individuals incarcerated in the state's jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic. The trial court dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction, and the plaintiffs appealed, however they withdrew the appeal on June 6, 2020. On April 3, 2020, the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Assoc…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Savino v. Hodgson

1:20-cv-10617 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: A class action for emergency release by noncitizens in civil immigration detention in the Bristol County House of Corrections. Judge William Young provisionally certified five sub-classes, reviewed dozens of bail applications, and released several individuals. Then on May 12, he banned further admissions to the facility and ordered universal COVID-19 testing. The defendants moved to reconsider and appealed to the First Circuit. On June 3, the court declined to reconsider the p…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Martinez-Brooks v. Easter

3:20-cv-00569 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 27, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This was a class action brought in 2020 by prisoners held at the Federal Correctional Center (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, seeking immediate release or home confinement of medically vulnerable individuals and implementation of safety measures to lower the risk of COVID-19. It settled in July 2020 and the settlement expired after fifteen months. On April 27, 2020, four individuals held at the Federal Correctional Center (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut filed this putative class …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Brizuela v. Feliciano

3:12-cv-00226 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 2, 2019

On February 13, 2012, the plaintiff filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in this §1983 class habeas action against the Connecticut Department of Corrections. The petition was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and assigned to Judge Janet Bond Arteton. The plaintiffs were detainees in Connecticut Department of Corrections (CDOC) facilities who, after the expiration of the state-law basis of their detention, remained in state custody solely due to an administra…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barrera v. Boughton

3:07-cv-01436 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2007

Closed Date: April 11, 2011

On September 26, 2007, ten individuals who had been arrested by the Danbury, Connecticut police for alleged civil immigration violations, represented by attorneys and law student interns with the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization of the Yale Law School, filed a civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut alleging discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against Latino residents of Danbury, in vio…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Kennedy v. Fanning

3:16-cv-02010 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2016

Case Ongoing

On December 9, 2016, an army veteran filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Secretary of the Army for violating the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. § 706) and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. This veteran was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 and suffered from service-related mental health issues. He was subsequently dismissed with less-than-Honorable discharges. Represented by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic and …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Juan F. v. Rell

2:89-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 1989

Case Ongoing

This class action brought by children placed in Connecticut's Department of Children and Youth Services (DCYS) was filed on December 19, 1989, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs were represented by the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union. They sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the state to redress deficiencies in the child welfare system, claiming that the state violated the Adoption Assistanc…