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La Unión Del Pueblo Entero v. Trump

8:19-cv-02710 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2019

Closed Date: April 2, 2021

This case challenged President Trump’s Executive Order 13880 directing the Census Bureau to collect citizenship data from administrative records and distribute that data to states in connection with the 2020 decennial census for redistricting. La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), a nonprofit committed to community organizing and civic engagement in the Texas Rio Grande Valley and Promise Arizona (PAZ), a faith-based nonprofit working to build Latino and immigrant political power, and two resident…
CHILD WELFARE
Burgos v. DCFS

1:75-cv-03974 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 1975

Case Ongoing

On November 20, 1975, this class action was filed by several Puerto Rican parents in the metropolitan Chicago area, who alleged that they and their children, who were or had been in the custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), were being discriminated against based on their race and national origin. They were represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, and sought injunctive relief under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The lawsuit was filed…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Crawford v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles

63-822854 | California state trial court

Filed Date: 1963

Closed Date: 1982

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) According to the U.S. Supreme Court's summary of this case, "In a California state court action seeking desegregation of the schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (District), the trial court, in 1970, found de jure segregation in violation of both the State and Federal Constitutions and ordered the District to prepare a desegregation plan. The California Supreme Court affirmed, but based its decision solely upon the Equal Pro…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. City of Baldwin Park Police Department

BC560031 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2014

Closed Date: March 2, 2017

On October 8, 2014, two individuals filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles under state law against the City of Baldwin Park Police Department. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for damages and injunctive and declaratory relief, claiming that defendants falsely imprisoned one of the plaintiffs; that such imprisonment violated the defendants' obligations under the California TRUST Act; that such imprison…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a very longstanding class action addressing appropriate treatment of noncitizen children in federal immigration custody. On March 26, 2020, plaintiffs filed an emergency motion seeking promptly release due to COVID-19 risks. On March 27, 2020, the court issued an order to the federal agencies detaining immigrant children to “make continuous efforts” to release the children from custody because of the risk posed to them by COVID-19 and to provide an accounting of their …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Texas v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-00068 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 1, 2018

Case Ongoing

On May 1, 2018, Texas and six other states brought actions for declaratory and injunctive relief against the United States and various officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiffs, represented by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas, claimed that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, created by a 2012 executive action by the Obama Administration, violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Take Care Clause of the…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gray v. City of Valley Park

4:07-cv-00881 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: April 12, 2007

Closed Date: 2009

This lawsuit was filed in state court in March 2007 by a landlord in Valley Park, Missouri, to challenge the City's anti-immigration ordinances, which reached both housing and employment issues. The plaintiff was one of several parties to an earlier case, in which the court had ruled prior versions of the ordinances unlawful under state law. Reynolds v. City of Valley Park, IM-MO-1. The City then passed amended versions, which are the subject of this lawsuit, and also of a new iteration of …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Friendly House v. Whiting

2:10-cv-01061 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 17, 2010

On May 17, 2010, a group of organizations and individuals filed this lawsuit against the sheriff and district attorney of each of the fifteen counties in Arizona, in their official capacities, in the U.S. District Court of Arizona. The plaintiff, represented by organizations such as the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center along with private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the recently enacted S.B. 1070 was a violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S.…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Chamber of Commerce of the United States v. Whiting

2:07-cv-02496 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2007

Closed Date: May 26, 2011

This case is the reincarnation of a previously filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the Legal Arizona Workers Act (the "Act"). The District Court (Judge Wake) dismissed that suit, Arizona Contractors Assoc., Inc. v. Napolitano, on December 7, 2007 for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The court found that there was no justiciable case or controversy against the Governor or Attorney General, as they did not have the power to enforce the challenged Act. The court noted that only …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Toussaint v. McCarthy / Wright v. Enonmoto

3:73-cv-01422 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 1973

Closed Date: Feb. 13, 1997

In 1973, prisoners confined in administrative segregation in four California state prisons - San Quentin, Folsom, Dueul Vocational Institute at Tracy, and the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad - filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sought relief on two claims: 1) that they had been placed in administrative segregation without any procedural …