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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Velazquez v. Legal Services Corp

1:97-cv-00182 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 1997

Closed Date: July 23, 2013

Plaintiff lawyers, indigent clients, and grantees filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleging that government restrictions on the activities of organizations who accepted federal funds distributed by the Legal Services Corporation ("LSC") were unconstitutional. LSC was a federally-chartered nonprofit corporation created and funded by Congress to distribute federal funds to local legal assistance programs that provided basic legal services for the indige…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Fant v. City of Ferguson

4:15-cv-00253 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

On February 8, 2015, persons jailed for failing to pay fines imposed by the City of Ferguson that they could not afford filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. They made a number of allegations against Ferguson, including: (1) that the City failed to conduct an inquiry into whether plaintiffs were able to pay their fines before jailing them, in violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment; (2) that the City fai…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Davis v. Jones

3:17-cv-00820 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 19, 2017

Case Ongoing

On July 19, 2017, death-row inmates in Florida filed this lawsuit alleging that the practice of placing death-row inmates in solitary confinement indefinitely violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, they claimed that the permanent solitary confinement posed a serious risk of harm to the health and safety of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against employees of the Florida Department of Co…
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

Case Ongoing

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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Belton, Jr. v. East Baton Rouge Parish Prison

3:20-cv-00278 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action filed by inmates in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, seeking the release of medically vulnerable people and appropriate hygiene and social distancing measures for those still in the facility. The court denied to enter a temporary restraining order on July 3, and on February 4, 2021 the court granted the defendants' motions to dismiss. On May 5, 2020, an incarcerated person in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison filed this pro se action in the U.S. Dist…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Case Ongoing

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center or the Erie County Correctional Facility, r…
EDUCATION
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by any Means Necessary (BAMN) v. Granholm

2:06-cv-15024 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2006

Case Ongoing

Until and through the latter part of 2006, the University of Michigan's admissions policies allowed for the consideration of race among the factors it considered in making admissions decisions. In 2003, this policy was expressly approved by the United States Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003). On November 7, 2006, the people of Michigan approved by majority vote a statewide ballot initiative, Proposal 2, which amended the Michigan Constitution to prohibit discrimination…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Wiginton v. CB Richard Ellis

1:02-cv-06832 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2002

Case Ongoing

On September 25, 2002, female employees of CB Richard Ellis filed a lawsuit against their employer under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs alleged that they had been discriminated against on the basis of their gender and asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as compensatory and punitive damages. Specifically, the plaintiffs contended that there was a s…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aguilar v. ICE

1:07-cv-08224 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2007

Case Ongoing

On September 20, 2007 several Latino families and individuals, represented by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and private counsel, filed a class action suit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging raids conducted as part of a program called "Operation Return to Sender." Plaintiffs alleged that federal agents unlawfully raided the hom…

Latinos Challenge Constitutionality of Home Raids Conducted by ICE

No Court

Sept. 20, 2007

Class Action Complaint

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division

Sept. 20, 2007

Fourth Amended Class Action Complaint

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security

Dec. 21, 2009

Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Dismiss the Complaint Against Defendants Michael Chertoff, Julie Myers, John Torres, and Marcy Forman

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security

March 29, 2010

Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendants' Chertoff, Myers, Torres, and Forman's Motion to Dismiss

Aguilar v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security

May 19, 2010

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MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Cooper v. Kliebert

3:14-cv-00507 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2014

Case Ongoing

On August 14, 2014, a number of prisoners in Louisiana state prisons filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that, despite their being found not guilty by reason of insanity of criminal offenses, they were still being incarcerated in Louisiana pris…