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PRISON CONDITIONS
S.L. v. United States of America

4:23-cv-06517 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2023

Closed Date: March 18, 2025

This is one of dozens of individual suits filed by women currently or formerly incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin (FCI Dublin), a minimum-security women’s prison in Dublin, California, alleging sexual abuse by prison employees. The facility, which had become known as the “rape club,” was shut down by the federal government in 2024 after eight employees, including the former warden, were charged with sexually abusing inmates over a number of years. In this case, a woman form…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

POLICING
Martin v. United States of America

1:19-cv-04106 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2019

This case was a damage action brought by someone whose home was mistakenly entered by Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) officers executing a warrant. The officers broke down the front door and detained one of the people there before realizing that they were in the wrong home. The plaintiff was the homeowner; she sued on behalf of herself and her minor child in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against the United States and the individual FBI agents on S…
PRISON CONDITIONS
M.R. v. Federal Correctional Institution "FCI" Dublin

4:22-cv-05137 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2022

This is one of dozens of individual suits filed by women currently or formerly incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin (FCI Dublin), a minimum-security women’s prison in Dublin, California, alleging sexual abuse by prison employees. The facility, which had become known as the “rape club,” was shut down by the federal government in 2024 after eight employees, including the former warden, were charged with sexually abusing inmates over a number of years. In this case, a woman form…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Burgess v. United States

4:17-cv-11218 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 18, 2017

This group of 1,704 plaintiffs, led by a Flint homeowner, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in connection with the Flint water crisis on April 18, 2017. This lawsuit is distinct from the Flint water cases in front of Judge Judith Levy, which were filed against various state actors. The plaintiffs were represented by a variety of Michigan-based small private law firms. They sough…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
C.M. v. United States

2:19-cv-05217 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2024

On September 19, 2019, five asylum-seeking parents, on their own behalf and on behalf of their minor children, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA"). The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the American Immigration Council, sought monetary relief and attorneys fees. The plaintiffs alleged both negligence on part of the United St…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fels v. Mcconnell

1:18-cv-05284 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2018

This is a case alleging grievances against President Trump's fitness for the presidency due to his financial records. Plaintiff, a pro se litigant, filed a case in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on August 2, 2018 seeking to enjoin the United States Senate from continuing confirmation proceedings in relation to any United States Supreme Court nominee by President Trump before the President’s financial documents were produced and reviewed. Plaintiff alleged that …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
A.I.I.L. v. Sessions

4:19-cv-00481 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2019

On October 3, 2019, noncitizen children and their parents filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, challenging the Trump Administration's separation of asylum seeker families. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU Immigrant Rights Project, sued various personnel from five federal departments: the Department of Justice (DOJ), the White House, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and the Office …
NATIONAL SECURITY
Xi v. Haugen

2:17-cv-02132 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 10, 2017

This lawsuit is a challenge to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s allegedly unconstitutional surveillance and arrest of the plaintiff. The plaintiff filed the lawsuit on May 10, 2017 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff initially sued an FBI special agent and other unnamed federal agents and officials. The case was heard by Judge R. Barclay Surrick. The plaintiff, a physics professor at Temple University, had been indicted and arrested in May 201…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Beaubrun v. United States

5:19-cv-00615 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 3, 2019

Closed Date: Jan. 28, 2022

This is a large tort claim case pertaining to sexual abuse in the federal prison system. On December 3, 2019, fourteen female prisoners, all of whom had been in federal custody for at least five years and nearly all first-time offenders for non-violent offenses, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Seven of the plaintiffs were still incarcerated. The plaintiffs sued the United States under the Federal Torts Claim Act. The plaintiffs, represented by private c…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Fazaga v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

8:11-cv-00301 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2011

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires the government to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) before it may conduct any domestic electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information. The warrant applications are made ex parte and must include a sworn statement by a federal officer of the facts and circumstances relied upon to justify the government's belief that the target of surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a f…