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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
G.H. v. Marstiller

4:19-cv-00431 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2022

On September 4, 2019, three minors—through their legal guardians—filed a complaint against the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by lawyers from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Florida Justice Institute, and Florida Legal Services, sought class action certification to represent several thousand juveniles (and several hundred in a subclass of juveniles with disabilities) who were or would be …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
L.E. v. Ragsdale

1:21-cv-04076 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about COVID-19 policies for schools in Cobb County, Georgia. On October 1, 2021, four students, whose disabilities made them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and put them at an increased risk for severe symptoms or death from an infection, filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiffs sued the Cobb County School District, members of the Cobb County School Board and the Board’s superintendent under Title 2 of the Americans with Di…
NATIONAL SECURITY
In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation

1:08-mc-00442 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 2, 2008

Case Ongoing

After the U.S. opened a military prison at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002, hundreds of the 780 men detained as enemy combatants filed petitions for writs of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The detainees alleged that the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Department of Defense, and high-ranking army officials failed to provide evidence that the detainees were enemy combatants, and also failed to advance any justification for the arrest, in…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barrientos v. CoreCivic Inc.

4:18-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 17, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 17, 2018, three current or former detained immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, where the case was assigned to Judge Clay D. Land. The plaintiffs sued CoreCivic, Inc., a private prison corporation that owned and operated the Stewart Detention Center (“Stewart”), under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1589, 1594, and 1595. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center and pri…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Dockery v. Epps

3:13-cv-00326 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: May 30, 2013

Case Ongoing

On May 30, 2013, prisoners in the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Mississippi Department of Corrections commissioner, deputy commissioner, and chief medical officer in their official capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the ACLU National Prison Project and the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked the court for declar…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Zelaya v. Miles

3:19-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Closed Date: March 2, 2023

This is a racial profiling and illegal seizure case about an immigration raid at an East Tennessee meat processing plant conducted by officers from the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”). In April 2018, DHS officers were assisting with an Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) search related to alleged climes of the plant’s owner, but during the search, the DHS  officers seized and arrested approximately 100 Latinx workers without regard to their immigration status, while berating them with raci…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church v. Kemp

1:21-cv-01284 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 29, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case was part of a challenge to Georgia Senate Bill 202 (“SB 202”) which was signed into law in March 2021. SB 202 implemented numerous new voting restrictions including a ban on aiding voters in line and restrictions on absentee voting. The case was ultimately consolidated within In Re Georgia Senate Bill 202 (1:21-mi-55555-JPB) alongside seven other cases challenging the same law. In particular these cases focus on SB 202’s effect on people of color and voters with disabilities. On March…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Southern Poverty Law Center v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:18-cv-00760 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 4, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: On May 7, 2020, in this access-to-counsel suit, the plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order in response to COVID-19, directing the defendants to remove access barriers and ameliorate dangerously punitive conditions at the detention facilities at issue, such as providing detainees with access to free and private phone calls. They claimed that the defendants had restricted access to legal visitations due to COVID-19, but failed to accommodate remote communications. The c…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Florida Immigrant Coalition, Inc. v. DeSantis

1:22-cv-23927 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

On December 1, 2022, three immigrant advocacy groups brought suit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Jared W. Perdue, Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation, in their official capacities. The Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC), Americans for Immigrant Justice (AI Justice) and Hope CommUnity Center (HCC), represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) of Harvard Law School, and private counsel, filed this suit in the U.S. Distric…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Immigrant Defenders Law Center v. Wolf

2:20-cv-09893 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the rights of asylum seekers who were subjected to the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols. On October 28, 2020, the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, Jewish Family Service of San Diego, and twenty individuals who were subjected to the protocols filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Gui…