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JAIL CONDITIONS
Rutherford v. Block

2:75-cv-04111 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 1975

On February 9, 1975, prisoners represented by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the practices and conditions of confinement at the Los Angeles County Central Jail (the "Jail"). On December 31, 1975, the District Court certified the class.Following a 17 day trial on the matter and unannounced jail inspections by the Court, the District Court (Judge William P. Gray) entered an orde…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Phillips v. County of Bucks

2:98-cv-06415 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 1998

On December 11, 1998, women who were then or had previously been housed at the Bucks County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania filed a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, against Bucks County and its officials, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief, as well as compensatory and punitive damages, for the County's failure to segregate inmates needing mental health treatment in a separate unit as was done in t…
EDUCATION
Fobbs v. New Haven Unified School District

4:10-cv-01065 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2009

This case was one of several suits filed against Union City (the “City”) and the New Haven Unified School District (the “District”) following the 2007 death of a 14-year-old Black student who was shot to death by members of a long gang while on the premises of a middle school. The plaintiffs, parents of current and former Black students in the District, sued on behalf of their children. Many of the children witnessed the 2007 shooting, and others faced racially-motivated violence on school grou…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Wilson v. Seattle Housing Authority

2:09-cv-00226 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2009

A Seattle resident who had been terminated from the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program brought this class action suit on 02/20/2009, alleging that the administration of the Program in Seattle discriminated against residents with disabilities. The named defendants were the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) and the Executive Director of SHA in his official capacity. Colombia Legal Services represented the plaintiff, and the case was assigned to Judge Marsha J. Pechman of the U.S. District Cou…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Teneng v. Trump

5:18-cv-01609 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2018

On August 1, 2018, six non-citizens detained at the Federal Correctional Institution Medium II, also called Victorville, filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and the Civil Rights Education Enforcement Center, among others, sued the President, the Attorney General, and the directors of the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Federal Bur…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Katz v. Brown Harris Stevens Brooklyn

1:08-cv-01698 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 24, 2008

This case related to allegations of housing discrimination against people with, or expecting to have, children – a protected class in NY. On April 24, 2008, a married couple filed suit against Brown Harris Stevens Brooklyn (“BHS”), a real estate brokerage firm headquartered in Brooklyn NY, doing business throughout New York City, and some of its licensed real estate agents and brokers in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The case was assigned to Magistrate Judge Ramo…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Miller v. King

6:98-cv-00109 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1998

Closed Date: July 18, 2013

The case began on August 4, 1998, when a state prisoner filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. The plaintiff was paraplegic and used a wheelchair; he was incarcerated at the Georgia State Prison (GSP) in Reidsville, Georgia. The defendants were the State of Georgia and various officials, entities, and subdivisions of the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC), including the GSP and Augusta State Medical Prison (ASMP), the Hearing Officer for the O…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Couch v. Jabe

7:05-cv-00642 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2005

On October 17, 2005, a Sunni Muslim incarcerated at Keen Mountain Correctional Center in Virginia filed this lawsuit, pro se, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The plaintiff sued officers at the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and the Keen Mountain Correctional Center under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). The plaintiff alleged violations of his rights under the First Amendment. Specifically, he alle…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant

3:14-cv-00818 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Oct. 20, 2014

On October 20, 2014, the Campaign for Southern Equality and two same-sex couples filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Mississippi. The Campaign for Southern Equality is a non-profit organization based in North Carolina that works to promote the legalization of same-sex marriage. The two couples lived in Mississippi. One couple sought to get married in the state and the other sought to have their …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Gerber v. Cooper

1:14-cv-00299 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: April 9, 2014

Closed Date: 2018

On April 9, 2014, several same-sex couples residing in North Carolina filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the state of North Carolina. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and private counsel, asked the court to declare that North Carolina's ban on same-sex is unconstitutional, declare North Carolina laws prohibiting joint adoption by same-sex couples are also unconstitutional, e…