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POLICING
Collins v. City of Milwaukee

2:17-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, ACLU national and the ACLU of Wisconsin, along with Covington & Burling attorneys, filed this class action alleging that the Milwaukee Police Department's (MPD) stop-and-frisk policies were unconstitutional. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on February 22, 2017. The complaint alleged under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that Milwaukee's stop-and-frisk policies violated the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure protections as well as the Fourteent…
POLICING
Winston v. Salt Lake City Police Department

2:12-cv-01134 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2012

Closed Date: April 11, 2016

This is a racial profiling and illegal seizure case about a gang task force of about 16 police officers who raided West High School in the Salt Lake City School District on December 16, 2010 to round up students for detention, interrogation, and inclusion in a gang database. The police officers detained Latinx, Black, and Pacific Islander students regardless of whether they had actual gang membership, and they targeted no white students. On December 13, 2012, the plaintiff, represented by the A…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Hodgkins v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.

1:19-cv-03469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 2019

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

On December 10, 2019, the ACLU, the ACLU of Colorado, Towards Justice, and a private law firm filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The four individual plaintiffs were female flight attendants who were pregnant and breastfed their children during their employment with Frontier Airlines. The complaint challenged Frontier’s alleged discriminatory policies and practices of penalizing pregnancy-related absences, refusing to provid…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Frederick v. Lawson

1:19-cv-01959 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 16, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 3, 2020

This is a case about the disenfranchisement of Indiana absentee voters due to unconstitutional signature verification procedures. On May 16, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, five Indiana voters and Common Cause Indiana sued the Indiana Secretary of State, a county election board (representing a putative class of all 92 Indiana county election boards), and three members of that board. Per Indiana statute, the state's absentee voting procedure required a sign…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Middleton v. Ward

5:21-cv-00334 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 2021

Closed Date: March 9, 2022

This putative class-action challenged the conditions of confinement in segregation units at the Georgia State Prison (GSP), an over 100-year-old maximum security facility in Tattnall County. The plaintiffs were three men held in the prison's "Tier II Program" and other solitary confinement housing units, one of whom had a mental health condition recognized by the Georgia Department of Corrections (Department). Tier II was an “incentive program” used to encourage “appropriate adjustments” so tha…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
E.F. v. New York City Department of Education

1:21-cv-00419 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

On January 26, 2021, Disability Rights New York filed a class action complaint in the Eastern District of New York against the New York City Board of Education alleging that almost 2,000 Staten Island students with disabilities were “being educated in segregated and unequal public schools and classrooms in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Section 504”), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”), and the New York Cit…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
H.P. v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago

1:18-cv-00621 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit challenging the Chicago Public Schools' (CPS) and Illinois State Board of Education's policies for providing special education services to children who do not speak English fluently. The case was filed on January 29, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs claimed that the school district systematically fail to provide CPS students with disabilities, whose parents are Limited English Proficient (“LEP”), with a free app…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
T.W. v. Jacobo

4:13-cv-00457 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 2013

This is a state-wide class action brought on behalf of over 300 individuals with psychiatric disabilities segregated in Florida state psychiatric treatment facilities. Plaintiff prisoners and the Protection and Advocacy agency, Disability Rights Florida, alleged that by failing to provide adequate community placements, Defendants created a situation in which individuals with psychiatric disabilities are segregated in large state facilities in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabili…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission v. Indiana Secretary of State

4:16-cv-00029 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2016

Closed Date: April 14, 2016

This 2016 class action lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of Indiana Code § 3-5-5-17, which provided that persons who are committed to a psychiatric institution did not gain residency for voting purposes in the precinct where the institution is located, and raised claims that the statute burdens and discriminates against persons with disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The case was filed on February 25, 2016 in the So…
PRISON CONDITIONS
DiMarco v. Wyoming Department of Corrections

1:03-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2003

Closed Date: Jan. 24, 2007

This is a case about a woman with intersex traits challenging her confinement in isolation while incarcerated. Even though the plaintiff had lived her entire life as a woman, prison staff determined she had genitalia outside of the typical male/female binary when they physically examined her upon her arrival at the Wyoming Women’s Center. Prison officials assigned the plaintiff to the maximum security ward to allegedly ensure the safety of both her and her fellow inmates. Previously, the ward h…