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JAIL CONDITIONS
Hinton v. District of Columbia

1:21-cv-01295 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 11, 2021

Closed Date: June 23, 2022

This is a class action lawsuit about transgender individuals in District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DOC) custody being assigned housing based solely on anatomy, instead of based on vulnerability and safety needs. On May 11, 2021, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of herself and a class of similarly situated transgender individuals who currently reside in a DOC housing unit that does not accord with their gender identit…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barrientos v. CoreCivic Inc.

4:18-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 17, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 17, 2018, three current or former detained immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, where the case was assigned to Judge Clay D. Land. The plaintiffs sued CoreCivic, Inc., a private prison corporation that owned and operated the Stewart Detention Center (“Stewart”), under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1589, 1594, and 1595. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center and pri…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Moran v. Landrum-Johnson

2:19-cv-13553 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 11, 2019

Closed Date: April 5, 2021

On November 11, 2019, a pretrial detainee filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana alleging that twelve judges of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court ("OPCDC") unlawfully imposed secured financial conditions of release in an amount that individuals cannot afford, without any inquiry into or findings concerning their ability to pay or alternatives to incarceration. The lawsuit was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201–…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Baby Doe v. Piehota

1:16-cv-00373 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 5, 2016

Closed Date: Sept. 14, 2017

On April 5, 2016, nineteen American Muslim individuals listed in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ("FBI") Terrorist Screening Database filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), the FBI, the Transportation Security Administration ("TSA"), and the Terrorist Screening Center ("TSC"). Represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and private counsel, the plaintiffs brought this…
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

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Deanda v. Becerra

2:20-cv-00092 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about minors' confidential access to contraception through the federally-funded Title X program. On April 10, 2020, a parent filed this lawsuit in the Amarillo Division of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas before District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk. The suit named as defendants the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs for the United States. Represented by attorneys at The Filmore Law Fir…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Harris v. Quinn

1:10-cv-02477 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 22, 2010

Case Ongoing

On April 22, 2010, individuals who provide home care to disabled individuals enrolled in Illinois Medicaid-waiver programs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the State of Illinois, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare of Illinois & Indiana, SIEU Local 73, and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 31. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Orr v. Elyea

2:08-cv-02232 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case is about people with Hepatitis C who were or had been incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). Represented by private counsel, around 75 incarcerated plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois on September 29, 2008. Over the course of this decade long litigation, numerous other individual plaintiffs were joined, with the number of plaintiffs eventually growing to be around 1,800. In…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Montoya v. City of San Diego

3:19-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 26, 2022

On January 8, 2019, four individuals with disabilities filed a class action complaint against the City of San Diego, Bird Rides, Inc, Neutron Holdings, Inc. d/b/a LIME, Razor USA LCC, Uber Technologies, Inc., Lyft, Inc, Wheels Labs, Inc. alleging the City and the dockless vehicle defendants have allowed sidewalks, street crossings, transit stops, crosswalks, curb cuts and other walkways to be blocked by unused scooters in violation of Title II and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Ac…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roe v. Sims

3:06-cv-03034 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2006

Closed Date: March 24, 2009

This is a case about prison officials' deliberate indifference toward the medical needs of incarcerated persons who suffered from hepatitis C. On September 20, 2005, four individuals who were or had been incarcerated at the Illinois Lincoln Correctional Center ("Lincoln") filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Judge Harold A. Baker was assigned to the case. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued Lincoln's w…