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PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Reynolds v. Giuliani

1:98-cv-08877 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1998

New York City implemented an overhaul to its welfare system in order to meet federal and state welfare requirements, which were revised in the mid-1990s. Under the city’s program, “income support centers” (locations where public assistance benefits were applied for and distributed, sometimes during the initial visit by an applicant) were to be converted to “job centers.” These job centers put greater emphasis on making sure those receiving public assistance obtained employment from the private …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Walker v. Johnson

1:05-cv-00934 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 2005

Closed Date: June 18, 2009

On August 10, 2005, Darick Demorris Walker, a death-sentenced prisoner of the State of Virginia, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Virginia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Walker, who was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, complaining that the lethal injection procedures used by the defendants would violate his constitutional rights by subjecting him to a…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed

INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Messier v. Southbury Training School

3:94-cv-01706 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1994

Closed Date: March 13, 2019

On October 4, 1994, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against Connecticut's Departments of Mental Retardation (DMR), Social Services (DSS), and Public Health (DPH) and Southbury Training School, an intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/MR) in Southbury, Connecticut. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought injunctive relief on behalf of both current and future Southbury residents.…
CHILD WELFARE
Brazwell v. Wagner

California state trial court

Filed Date: March 23, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2010

On March 23, 2010, the National Center for Youth Law, the Alliance for Children's Rights, and private counsel filed this state court lawsuit representing children who receive benefits through California's Kin-GAP program, which provides cash assistance and Medi-Cal to foster children living with relatives as their legal guardians. The program was created in 1999 by the California Legislature to encourage family members to care for youth who had been removed from their parents by the dependency …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Mhany Management Inc. v. County of Nassau

2:05-cv-02301 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 12, 2005

Closed Date: March 11, 2022

On May 12, 2005, individual New York residents and the New York ACORN local chapter filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued Nassau County and the Village of Garden City under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Fair Housing Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, citing violations of these acts as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The plaintiffs asked the court to enjoin the defendants from procee…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Kadel v. Folwell

1:19-cv-00272 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: March 11, 2019

Plaintiffs in this case challenged the State Health Plan's refusal to cover medically necessary gender affirming care. On March 11, 2019, seven private plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves or their dependents, (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), represented by Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and private counsel, sued the State Treasurer of North Carolina, the Executive Administrator of the North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Em…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Busby v. Bonner

2:20-cv-02359 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 20, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 17, 2023

Two individuals with medical conditions that rendered them especially vulnerable to COVID-19 filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus on May 20, 2020 against the Shelby County Sheriff's Office in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. They sought to represent a class of Shelby County Jail detainees with disabilities or who were medically vulnerable to COVID-19. Represented by lawyers from the ACLU as well as private counsel, they alleged violati…

Settled: Case Closed

Affirmed

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Allen v. International Truck and Engine

1:02-cv-00902 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 10, 2002

Closed Date: Jan. 4, 2018

On October 16, 2001, a group of current and former African-American employees and job applicants filed a lawsuit against Defendant under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for monetary and injunctive relief, alleging that they and other similarly-situated African-American employees had suffered and continued to suffer racial harassment and a hostile work environment as w…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Butler v. Suffolk County

2:11-cv-02602 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

On May 27, 2011, twenty persons then confined in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility (SCCF), which consists of the Riverhead Correctional Facility (a medium/maximum security jail) and the Yaphank Correctional Facility (a minimum security jail), filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983. The lawsuit was filed pro se as a class action, on behalf of those individuals and all others similarly situated. The plaintiffs sought …

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. Dugan

2:25-cr-00089 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

This case was a highly unusual federal criminal prosecution of a sitting state court judge—who was alleged by the Trump Administration to have interfered with an immigration arrest. On April 24, 2025, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin indicted Wisconsin Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on two counts: (1) obstruction of a federal administrative proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 1505, and (2) concealment of a person from arrest under 18 U.S.C. § 1071. The case was assigned to U.S. Di…

Case Is Ongoing