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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Luevano v. Ezell

1:79-cv-00271 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 1979

Closed Date: Aug. 1, 2025

This is a long-standing case about equal employment in the federal civil service. The case was originally brought in 1979 by nonprofit counsel against the then Director of the Officer of Personnel Management (OPM) as a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The applicants had filed suit, claiming that the Professional and Administrative Career Examination (PACE) violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Plaintiffs alleged that PACE, …

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Thakur v. Trump

3:25-cv-04737 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 4, 2025

This case is about the alleged unlawful termination, suspension, or reduction of federal research grants to University of California researchers under a series of executive orders issued by President Trump and directives from the Department of Governmental Ethics (DOGE). On June 4, 2025, a group of University of California researchers, faculty, staff, academic appointees, and employees filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Pre…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Day v. District of Columbia

1:10-cv-02250 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2010

The plaintiffs, institutionalized individuals in the District of Columbia with disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 23, 2010. The complaint alleged that the District of Columbia had policies and procedures that force the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities who could live in the community with appropriate services. The plaintiffs claimed that these policies, which erected barriers to receiving long-term care…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Dobbey v. Weilding

1:13-cv-01068 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2013

Closed Date: April 29, 2025

This case was originally filed in 2013. The original plaintiff, Lester Dobbey, was an inmate in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections in the Stateville Correctional Center. On February 8, 2013, the original plaintiff filed a pro se complaint in the Northern District of Illinois (in Chicago) against employees at Stateville Correctional Center. He brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Violations. Specifically, the original plaintiff complaine…

Settled: Case Closed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.O.P. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

8:19-cv-01944 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 1, 2019

This case challenges the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 2019 policy memorandum that instructed asylum officers to reassess whether applicants previously determined to be unaccompanied alien children (UACs) still met that definition at the time of application and, if not, to decline jurisdiction. On July 1, 2019, four unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the De…

Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans Jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…

Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Tang v. United States

1:23-cv-09885 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2023

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On November 8, 2023, plaintiffs filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York to recover biometric fees that United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) charges millions of immigrants in the U.S>

Case Is Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Bownes v. Washington

2:14-cv-11691 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 28, 2014

An incarcerated individual in the custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) filed this lawsuit on April 28, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals, against the Director of the MDOC and the general dentist of the MDOC (in their official capacities). MDOC policy detailed that a person became eligible for routine dental care only after being incarcerated for two years. The plaintiff claimed that t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Davids v. Adams

1:25-cv-00334 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: June 26, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On June 26, 2025, Plaintiffs Dr. Abby Davids and unnamed immigrants living with HIV/AIDS brought suit through their attorneys at the ACLU of Idaho and National Immigration Law Center to challenge House Bill 135 (“H.B. 135”) and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s (“IDHW”) decision to impose immigration status verification requirements on beneficiaries of certain federally-funded public programs. 

Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-10676 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 23, 2025

This class action challenges Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deportations of noncitizens to countries that are not their designated country of removal, without first providing an opportunity for the noncitizen to demonstrate fear of persecution, torture, and even death in the chosen third country. Four anonymous class plaintiffs, all noncitizens from Central America currently residing in Massachusetts, filed this lawsuit on March 23, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Ma…

Motion for Class Certification

D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

March 23, 2025

Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification

D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

March 23, 2025

Class Action Complaint

D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

March 23, 2025

Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction and Stay of Administrative ActionPlaintiffs' Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and

D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

March 23, 2025

Plaintiffs' Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction and Stay of Administrative Action

D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

March 23, 2025

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Preliminary Injunction Granted, but Stayed

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted