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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Roberts v. Thompson

6:24-cv-02024 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: May 13, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a due process case related to jail fees. On May 13, 2024, the plaintiff, represented by the ACLU of Iowa, Public Justice, and private counsel, filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Black Hawk County Sheriff and Black Hawk County in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. The plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the Black Hawk County Sheriff was collecting jail fees through an unconstitutional procedure. Specifically, the plaintif…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
Connor v. Maryland Department of Health

1:24-cv-01423 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 15, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a disability rights case about state inspections of nursing homes in Maryland. On May 15, 2024, five nursing home residents filed this putative class action lawsuit against Maryland's Department of Health (MDOH) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Plaintiffs sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, alleging that MDOH failed to conduct annual inspections of Medicaid- and Medicare-funded nursing facilities and all…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
M.M. v. King

24000546CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: March 15, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the rights of incarcerated people to have family visitors under the Michigan Constitution.  On March 15, 2024, a group of individuals with family members currently or formerly incarcerated in the St. Clair County jail filed a putative class action lawsuit in the 31st Circuit Court for St. Clair County, Michigan, challenging the blanket ban on in-person family visitation. Plaintiffs sued the St. Clair County Sheriff; Securus Technologies, a private prison telecommunications …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
S.L. v. Swanson

2024-120601CZ | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: March 15, 2024

Case Ongoing

On March 15, 2024, a group of individuals with family members currently or formerly incarcerated in the Genesee County Jail filed a putative class action lawsuit in the 7th Circuit Court for Genesee County, Michigan challenging the blanket ban on in-person family visitation. Plaintiffs sued the Genesee County Sheriff; Global Tel*Link (“GTL”), a private prison telecommunications company; and the CEO of GTL, alleging that these defendants colluded to increase profits from the video- and phone-cal…
EDUCATION
Cohen v. Brown University

1:92-cv-00197 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: April 9, 1992

Case Ongoing

The Initial Title IX Settlement (1992 – 1998) In 1991, Brown University announced that it was going to eliminate four sports: women’s volleyball, women’s gymnastics, men’s golf, and men’s water polo. Brown explained that the teams could still compete as club sports, but it was no longer able to provide university funding for financial reasons. At that time, Brown’s student body was 52 percent male and 48 percent female, but 63 percent of its athletes were male. On April 9, 1992, affected women …
EDUCATION
Eccleston v. Pine Bush Central School District

7:12-cv-02303 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 28, 2012

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2018

On March 28th, 2012, five former and current Jewish students filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the Pine Bush School District. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for declarative judgment, injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the school district had responded with deliberate indifference to the rampant anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment directed at the plaintif…
EDUCATION
The Women's Student Union v. U.S. Dep't of Education

3:21-cv-01626 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is about the Trump Administration's amended Title IX regulations that reduced federal protections for students experiencing sexual harassment in public schools. On March 8, 2021, The Women’s Student Union (the Student Union)—a student organization at Berkeley High School—filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Department of Education under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Represented by the National Cent…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Ray v. Judicial Corrections Services

2:12-cv-02819 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2012

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2020

On August 28, 2012, three Alabama residents filed a federal class lawsuit against the city of Childersburg, Alabama and the private, for-profit law enforcement company the city used to collect law-enforcement related fines, costs, and fees. The plaintiffs sued in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, seeking a declaratory judgment and an injunction. They asserted claims under both federal and state law. Public Justice, Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, and private counsel re…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Carter v. City of Montgomery

2:15-cv-00555 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2015

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff, individually and on behalf of indigent individuals who have been sentenced by the Montgomery Municipal Court to probation with Judicial Correction Services, Inc. (“JCS”) for failure to pay fines, filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on August 3, 2015. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sued the City of Montgomery (“the City”) under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988. The plaintiff alleged that the City exceeded its autho…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Abrahamson v. Corrections Corporation of America

2006 CV 8 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2006

Closed Date: 2013

In February 2006, over 150 prisoners who had been injured during a 2004 riot at Crowley County Correctional Facility (Crowley) filed this lawsuit in the Colorado District Court for the County of Crowley. They sued the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a private prison company that owned and operated Crowley (which incarcerates Colorado and other state prisoners), for negligence, outrageous conduct, and civil conspiracy. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought compensatory …