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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomez-Echeverria v. Purpose Point Harvesting, LLC

1:22-cv-00314 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2022

Closed Date: June 12, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On March 31, 2022, a group of migrant agricultural workers in Michigan filed a class action lawsuit against their employer, Purpose Point, who had hired them to perform agricultural labor in Michigan through the H‐2a program. Plaintiffs allege that defendants acted together to charge plaintiffs illegal recruitment fees, confiscated travel documents when Plaintiffs arrived in the United States, and paid Plaintiffs less than the contract wag…

Judgment for Plaintiff

POLICING
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Porter

2:77-cv-01164 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 1977

Closed Date: July 2, 1982

This case involved allegations of misconduct against Officer Baranyai, a policeman of the Borough of Millvale. On October 6, 1977, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against Officer Baranyai and the Millvale chief of police, mayor, and borough council. Filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the complaint sought injunctive relief prohibiting defendants from violating the constitutional rights of the residents of Millva…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Edmond v. City of Chicago

1:17-cv-04858 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 29, 2017

Closed Date: July 8, 2024

This case concerns allegations of race discrimination against employees of the City of Chicago. It was filed on June 29, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and assigned to District Judge Joan B. Gottschall. Seven Black employees from the Department of Water Management, represented by private counsel, sued the city and several officials. Plaintiffs alleged a hostile work environment and discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. Black employee…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
The Democratic Party of Georgia v. Crittenden

1:18-cv-05181 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 11, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 14, 2019

On November 11, 2018, The Democratic Party of Georgia, Inc., and AFG Group Inc., a nonprofit doing business as Stacey Abrams for Governor, filed a class action complaint against (1) the Secretary of State for Georgia, (2) members of the Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections, (3) members of the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections, and (4) a class of defendants comprised of superintendents and boards of elections for each of the 159 counties in Georgia.  The complaint …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Manship v. Virginia Board of Elections

3:16-cv-00884 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Nov. 2, 2016

Closed Date: May 20, 2017

This is a case about the validity of Electronic Voting Systems for use in casting and tallying election ballots. On November 2, 2016, an individual who was an investigative reporter, Virgina voter, and Navy Special Duty Cryptology Disabled Veteran, filed an emergency motion for order for injunctive and declaratory relief and verified class action complaint pro se in the Eastern District of Virgina on behalf of himself and all Virginia voters. This motion was brought against the Virginal Board o…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Librace v. Martin et al.

4:16-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2016

Closed Date: Feb. 29, 2016

On 3 February 2016, an individual filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against the Secretary of State of Arkansas, the Republican Party of Arkansas Executive Committee, the Senator of Texas and the Senator of Florida.  The plaintiff sought a declaratory judgment, for and on behalf of all eligible U.S. voters, that the Senator of Florida and the Senator of Texas were ineligible for the office of President and Vice President in the 2016 Primaries and G…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Xiong v. Trump

4:25-cv-00558 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 25, 2025

Closed Date: June 4, 2025

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. On May 25, 2025, a Hmong noncitizen filed this class complaint and petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, challenging his and others’ detention and threatened removal to Laos. The plaintiff sued President Trump, along with the U.S. Dep…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

LABOR RIGHTS
Porteous v. Flowers Foods, Inc.

6:23-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2023

In this case, a delivery driver for a baked goods company alleged that the company misclassified its delivery drivers as "independent contractors" as a shortcut to avoid paying delivery drivers overtime and benefits. Defendants were Flowers Foods, Inc., and its subsidiaries: Flowers Bakeries LLC and Flowers Baking Co. of Portland, LLC (“FBC Portland”). (Collectively, the defendants are hereinafter referred to as “Flowers Foods”). The plaintiff had worked as a delivery driver for the defendants …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
D.N.N. v. Baker

1:25-cv-01613 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 20, 2025

This case challenges allegedly inhumane detention conditions faced by noncitizens held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holding cells in Maryland. On May 9, 2025, a noncitizen detained by ICE in holding cells operated by ICE's Baltimore Field Office filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against several ICE officials, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Attorney General. Petitioners brought claims u…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

LABOR RIGHTS
Waithaka v. Amazon.com Inc

2:19-cv-01320 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2017

This case concerns Amazon Flex drivers: whether Amazon properly classifies them as independent contractors and whether their disputes with Amazon are subject to mandatory arbitration. Background Amazon Flex drivers use their personal vehicles to deliver products from Amazon facilities to end customers. Flex drivers use an app to claim delivery “blocks” (essentially, shifts); Amazon pays drivers a flat fee for delivering all of the packages assigned for that “block”—regardless of how long it act…