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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Walker v. The City of New York

1:17-cv-03234 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 30, 2017

Case Ongoing

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PRISON CONDITIONS
Thorpe v. Virginia Department of Corrections

3:19-cv-00332 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: May 6, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 6, 2019, twelve prisoners at the Red Onion and Wallens Ridge supermax prisons, who had each been in solitary confinement for between two and twenty-three years, filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs sued the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and the wardens of both Red Onion and Wallens Ridge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 19…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ligons v. Minnesota Department of Corrections

0:15-cv-02210 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: May 1, 2015

Case Ongoing

On May 1, 2015, inmates of the Minnesota Department of Corrections (MDOC) suffering from hepatitis-C filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. The plaintiffs sued the Minnesota Department of Corrections and Centene Corporation, a provider of healthcare for inmates, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Article I § 8 of the Minnesota Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel,…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Carr v. Becerra

3:22-cv-00988 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)  On August 3, 2022, Disability Rights Connecticut and several other non-profits filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, on behalf of several individual plaintiffs with disabilities.  The case challenged the Trump Administration interim rule, issued November 2020, that channeled individuals with disabilities into low-benefit programs that did not pay for many of their needs, rather than leaving them i…
EDUCATION
Balow v. Michigan State University

1:21-cv-00044 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is an ongoing Title IX case about Michigan State University's attempt to eliminate its varsity aquatics program. In October 2020, MSU –– a NCAA Division 1 school –– announced it would discontinue its women's and men's varsity swimming and diving programs at the end of the 2020-2021 season due to budget cuts. Eleven women on the team then hired private counsel to sue the University, president, its board of trustees, and its director of athletics. Their January 15, 2021 complaint, filed in t…
POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
Campbell v. City of New York

1:21-cv-04056 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This case involves a challenge to the NYPD's alleged practice of arresting essential workers after curfew during the COVID-19 pandemic. The putative class sought compensatory and punitive damages as well as declaratory relief.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Progeny v. City of Wichita

6:21-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: April 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Wichita Police Department’s (WPD) usage of gang lists, alleging that they imposed a disparate impact on Black and Latinx residents and that they were unconstitutional in their implementation. The plaintiffs, Progeny (a community based organization seeking to prevent the incarceration of young people) and private individuals within Wichita who had been impacted by these policies, were represented by Kansas Appleseed Center for Law & Justice and the ACLU of Kansas. …
POLICING
NAACP v. San Jose

4:21-cv-01705 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 11, 2021

Case Ongoing

On March 11, 2021, the NAACP and several individuals filed this class-action lawsuit against the city of San Jose and public officials. The plaintiffs stated that they were peacefully protesting police brutality and institutionalized racism when San Jose police fired impact munitions and attacked them with flash-bang grenades, chemical weapons, and batons. The plaintiffs contended that the defendants had exhibited a long history of targeting Black, Brown, and Muslim communities, and that the us…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Ross v. Blount

2:19-cv-11076 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the constitutionality of Wayne County, Michigan's cash bail system. On April 14, 2019, several pre-trial detainees in Wayne County Jail filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the 36th District Court in Detroit, the Wayne County Sheriff's Office (WCSO), the Chief Judge, and five Magistrates of the 26th District Court in their official capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Garcia v. Ocean County

3:07-cv-05665 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2007

Case Ongoing

On November 28, 2007, five arrestees, proceeding through private counsel, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in order to challenge the blanket strip search policy of the Ocean County Correctional Facility. The named plaintiffs alleged that they were all arrested for misdemeanor or petty crimes and, upon their admission to the jail, were strip searched pursuant to the unconstitutional blanket policy of strip searching every pr…