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PRISON CONDITIONS
Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility v. Rockefeller

1:71-cv-00410 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 1971

This case is part of the Clearinghouse's special collection on the Attica Uprising. In September of 1971, incarcerated people in New York's Attica Correctional Facility took control of the prison and took several staff members hostage. The uprising ended when state police violently stormed the prison, killing over 40 incarcerated people and staff members. Attica was one of the most significant events in the American prisoners' rights movement and drew public attention to poor conditions in pris…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Housing Rights Initiative v. Compass, Inc.

1:21-cv-02221 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about property owners and brokers in New York City who allegedly refused to rent residential property to holders of Housing Choice Vouchers (which subsidized housing for low-income families). On March 15, 2021, the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. HRI sued eighty eight property owners and brokers under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and city and state laws that barred source of income discrimination. Repr…
POLICING
Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles

2:16-cv-01750 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Case Ongoing

On March 14, 2016, several homeless individuals (one with a disability) and two organizations that help homeless individuals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the City of Los Angeles, seeking a declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, and damages under 28 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and state law. The plaintiffs alleged continuing violations of the plaintiffs' rights under the Fourth, Fift…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Holden v. Zucker

801592/2021E | New York state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2021

Closed Date: March 29, 2021

This was a case about vaccine eligibility for incarcerated New Yorkers. On February 4, 2021, two people incarcerated at Rikers Island (the NYC jail) filed this lawsuit in Supreme Court of the State of New York, Bronx County. The plaintiffs sued the Commissioner of Health for New York State and the Governor of the State of New York under Article 78, the state’s analogue to the Administrative Procedure Act. Represented by the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, the Bronx Defenders, the Legal…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Martinez-Brooks v. Easter

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

Filed Date: April 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: On April 27, 2020, four individuals held at the Federal Correctional Center (FCI) brought this emergency putative class action requesting the immediate release or home confinement of medically vulnerable individuals and implementation of safety measures to lower the risk of COVID-19. On April 30, the petitioners requested an emergency temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction and sought preliminary certification of the proposed class. On May 5, the respondents fil…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Butler v. City of New York

1:15-cv-03783 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 15, 2015

Case Ongoing

In this case, New York City residents with disabilities who are homeless alleged that the city's homeless services failed to accommodate them. On May 15, 2015, several named plaintiffs who are homeless and disabled filed this class-action lawsuit in the US District Court of the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff sued the city of New York and New York City's Department of Homeless Services (DHS) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, the New York State…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Suarez v. Annucci

7:20-cv-07133 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a damages case about a man with bipolar schizoaffective disorder who alleges prison officials and doctors denied him mental health treatment while he was incarcerated at New York Downstate Correctional Facility (Downstate) in summer 2017. The case is notable: it held that part of the New York Special Housing Unit (SHU) Exclusion Law relating to mentally disabled prisoners placed in solitary confinement is privately enforceable.  When the plaintiff was transferred to Downstate in June 20…
POLICING
Payne v. de Blasio

1:20-cv-08924 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2020

Case Ongoing

This suit was filed by eleven New York residents against the City of New York and the New York City Police Department on October 26, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Legal Aid Society, the plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C § 1983 alleging excessive force and unlawful seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment, as well as retaliation for the exercise of First Amendment rights. The plaintiffs also broug…
POLICING
Davis v. City of New York

1:10-cv-00699 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2010

Case Ongoing

This is one of four ongoing cases challenging the constitutionality of the New York Police Department's "Stop and Frisk" program. See: Floyd v. City of New York (PN-NY-0009); Daniels v. City of New York (PN-NY-0010); and Ligon v. City of New York (PN-NY-0014). On January 28, 2010, the plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the City of New York and the New York City Housing Authority. The plaintiffs included Black and L…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ali v. Trump

2:17-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2018

This class action lawsuit, filed January 30, 2017, challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) ban on admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (in Seattle). Plaintiffs were represented by the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Immigration Council. The…