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POLICING
Coleman v. Brookside

2:22-cv-00423 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 4, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a class-action lawsuit challenging a small town’s practice of over-policing to generate revenue through fines and fees. On April 4, 2022, a group of individuals whom the Brookside police detained in traffic stops filed this complaint and motion for class certification in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Town of Brookside, Alabama, Jett's Towing, and three Brookside police officers in their individual capacities, seeking redress for Fo…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Brucker v. The City of Doraville

1:18-cv-02375 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 23, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2020

The city of Doraville relied on its municipal court as a source of revenue. The city received millions of dollars of its budget from court fines and forfeitures. As Doraville’s City Council heavily relied on these revenues to balance the city’s budget, its municipal court personnel, who serve at the pleasure of the City Council, had a financial incentive to convict defendants. In addition, the city’s law enforcement personnel, who also ultimately serve at the pleasure of its City Council, had a…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Przybocki v. United States Department of Agriculture

2:23-cv-00455 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: March 28, 2023

Case Ongoing

            This is a case about the free speech implications of government restrictions on the labels of various packaged foods. On March 28, 2023, a business owner, his business, and a customer of his business sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), its Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. Represented by local counsel as well as the Institute for Justice, the Plaintiffs sued for vio…
POLICING
Taylor v. Nocco

8:21-cv-00555 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: March 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Pasco County Sheriff's Office's "Intelligence-Led Policing Program," or ILP Practices. The plaintiffs sued Sheriff Nocco in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleging that the program created a list of individuals believed likely to commit future crimes and then subjected those individuals and their families to “relentless pursuit, arrest, and prosecution” in violation of the First Amendment freedom of assembly and the Fourteenth Amendmen…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Brown v. Transportation Security Administration

2:20-cv-00064 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2020

Case Ongoing

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized and confiscated $82,373 in cash from the plaintiff’s carry-on as she boarded a domestic flight in Pennsylvania in August 2019. Visiting her father for the weekend, she had learned that he had stored his life savings, in cash, in numerous envelopes hidden in his home. She offered to deposit the money in a new account she planned to create for him, but the cash was seized before she could deposit it.…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Davis v. City of Chicago

1:19-cv-03691 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 29, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit is a constitutional challenge the city of Chicago’s vehicle impound program. The plaintiffs, individuals whose cars had been impounded by the city, filed this putative class action suit in Illinois state court (Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division) on April 29, 2019. Represented by attorneys from the Institute for Justice and a private law firm, they claimed that the city impounded cars in connections with offenses not committed by their owners, required the owners of im…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Sourovelis v. City of Philadelphia

2:14-cv-04687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2014

Case Ongoing

On Aug. 11, 2014, four individuals filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, and the Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged violations of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, 42 U.S.C. § 1988, and the Declaratory Judgment Act. The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on Nov. 17, 2014.T…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Whitner v. City of Pagedale

4:15-cv-01655 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 2015

Case Ongoing

On November 4, 2015, residents of Pagedale who had received warnings that they may receive tickets, have been ticketed, or will be ticketed by the city filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs sued the City of Pagedale under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201, alleging violations of the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The plaintiffs, represented by both private counsel and a public interest law firm, asked the court for cert…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. ALLIED SIGNAL, INC.

2:98-cv-01409 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: July 31, 1998

Closed Date: Nov. 16, 1999

On July 31, 1998, the Chicago District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 against AlliedSignal, an aerospace, automotive, and engineering company. (AlliedSignal was purchased by Honeywell International, Inc. in 2009.) The EEOC claimed that AlliedSignal had engaged in a pattern and practice of discrimination in relation to its reduction in force at i…
POLICING
Ingram v. County of Wayne

2:20-cv-10288 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

On February 4, 2020, three Michigan residents whose vehicles were seized and impounded by police filed this putative class action lawsuit against Wayne County in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs, represented by the public interest organization Institute for Justice and private counsel, sued under 42 U.S.C. §1983. They contended that Wayne County's civil forfeiture practices led to unconstitutional vehicle seizures. They sought declaratory, injunctive,…