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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mahmoud Khalil v. Joyce

2:25-cv-01963 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. This case challenges the detention and attempted deportation of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the campus protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University throughout the spring of 2024. Khalil was a lawful permanent resident o…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

PRISON CONDITIONS
Prisoners' Legal Services of New York v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-01965 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

On March 10, 2025, Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York, New York Civil Liberties Union, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (collectively, “PLSNY”) sued the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility (called "Batavia") in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. PLSNY alleged that Batavia's new policy of holding onto original copies of mail and only giving copies to recipients violated …
NATIONAL SECURITY
CLEAR v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection

1:19-cv-07079 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 28, 2023

This is a FOIA case wherein plaintiffs sought records from the Customs and Border Protection pertaining to its Tactical Terrorism Response Teams (TTRTs).  On December 12, 2019, Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility Project (“CLEAR”), the American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”), and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (“ACLUF”) sued the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs su…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Spring Valley Branch v. East Ramapo Central School District

7:17-cv-08943 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2022

The plaintiffs in this case are the Spring Valley Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Julio Clerveaux, Chevon Dos Reis, Eric Goodwin, Jose Vitelio Gregorio, Dorothy Miller, and Hillary Moreau. The defendant is the East Ramapo Central School District. The plaintiffs sought relief under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, alleging that the at-large election system used by the East Ramapo Central School District diluted the votes of black and L…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Fields v. Annucci

902997-23 | New York state supreme court

Filed Date: April 5, 2023

Case Ongoing

This putative class action suit, filed by three individuals incarcerated in New York, represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union and Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York, alleged that the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) was illegally subjecting people to prolonged solitary confinement in violation of the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act (HALT Act). The case was filed in New York’s supreme court on April 5, 2023, and was…
POLICING
Dinler v. City of New York

1:04-cv-07921 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2004

Closed Date: April 8, 2014

On October 7, 2004, three private citizens filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the city of New York and the commissioner of the New York City Police department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief as well as compensatory damages. The case was assigned to Judge Deborah A. Batts. According to the complaint, the plaintiffs had been peace…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.V.M. v. Lloyd

1:18-cv-01453 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 16, 2018, a minor child detained by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff sued ORR under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Declaratory Judgement Act, and petitioned for writs of habeas corpus and mandamus. The plaintiff, an immigrant represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, alleged th…
POLICING
Schiller v. City of New York

1:04-cv-07922 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2004

Closed Date: April 8, 2014

On October 7, 2004, this action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by individuals who participated in demonstrations in New York City during the Republican National Convention (RNC). The plaintiffs’ complaint sought compensatory damages, attorney’s fees, and to have the actions of the NYPD, in particular the arrest procedure and conditions of detention, declared unlawful. The case was assigned to Judge Kenneth M. Karas. During the convention, the police c…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Jones v. Stanford

1:20-cv-01332 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit about whether the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) can ban individuals required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) from accessing social media and the internet. On March 12, 2020, six people required to register under SORA filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, where it was assigned to District Judge Raymond J. Dearie. The plaintiffs sued the Chairwoman of the New Yor…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Velesaca v. Decker

1:20-cv-01803 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

On February 28, 2020, a noncitizen placed in a federal immigration detention facility and denied bond or release while awaiting immigration hearings filed this class-action suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by the New York Civil Liberties Foundation and the Bronx Defenders, the petitioner sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and individual agency officials; he filed a habeas petition to…