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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Ashley W. et. al. v. Holcomb, et al.

3:19-cv-00129 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 25, 2019

Closed Date: June 23, 2022

This case, filed on June 25, 2019, addresses the large-scale failures of the State of Indiana’s child welfare system to protect and meet the needs of children in its custody. The named plaintiffs are children in foster care who brought a class action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the state. Plaintiffs sought certification of a class consisting of all children who are now, or will be, in the custody of DCS. Plaintiffs allege that DCS failed to “provide safe and appropriate fo…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia

59-04138 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: 1959

Closed Date: 1967

In this landmark civil rights case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state statutes banning interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In June 1958, two Virginia residents, Mildred Jeter, a Black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, married in Washington, D.C., pursuant to its laws. In October 1958, upon returning to Virginia, a grand jury issued an indictment charging the Lovings with violating Virginia a…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Trowbridge v. Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities

1:98-cv-03529 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 11, 1998

Closed Date: March 30, 2004

On May 11, 1998, seven people who were formerly employed by the Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities (IBR), represented by private counsel, filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The case was initially assigned to Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. and Magistrate Cheryl L. Pollak. The plaintiffs sued IBR, the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, the New York State Department of Mental …
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Philadelphia Community Bail Fund v. First Judicial District Arraignment Magistrates

21 EM 2019 | Pennsylvania state supreme court

Filed Date: March 12, 2019

Closed Date: July 27, 2020

In Philadelphia, defendants who are arrested and then charged with a crime remain held in a divisional booking center, where they participate via videoconference in preliminary arraignments (also known as “bail hearings'').  Philadelphia Municipal Arraignment Court Magistrates (ACMs) of the First Judicial District conduct these hearings and determine whether to release a defendant and what conditions, if any, to impose on release.  The vast majority of ACMs are non-lawyers who have completed a …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
K.L.W. v. James

2:04-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 13, 2004

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2004

This is a lawsuit challenging the attorney visitation policy and legal assistance program at Columbia Training School, a rehabilitative facility for juvenile offenders placed in the custody of the state of Mississippi. The named plaintiff, a developmentally disabled child incarcerated in Columbia, filed a putative class action suit on April 13, 2004 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against the prison's administrator, the Executive Director of the Mississippi D…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Garrison v. U.S. Department of Education

1:22-cv-01895 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is one of many cases challenging President Biden's plan to cancel specified amounts of student debt, which he announced on August 24, 2022. On September 27, 2022, Pacific Legal Foundation, a libertarian public interest law firm, filed this action on behalf of one of their employees. The employee lives in Indiana, received Pell Grants, and qualifies for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Plaintiff alleges injury from President Biden's plan because if $20,000 of his loans ar…
EDUCATION
Cook v. McKee

1:18-cv-00645 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2022

On November 28, 2018, fourteen public school students filed this putative class action lawsuit against the State of Rhode Island and its state officials in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.  Represented by Michael Rebel, the executive director of the Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, as well as the the Rhode Island Center for Justice and a private law firm, the students alleged that the State had deprived them of their rights under t…
POLICING
Dundon v. Kirchmeier

1:16-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a putative class action about excessive police force used to disperse protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). On November 20, 2016, the plaintiffs– Native Americans and other concerned citizens who referred to themselves as "water protectors"--gathered to pray and protest the DAPL at Backwater Bridge in North Dakota. They were met by local police forces who were armed with specialty impact munitions, teargas, and water cannons. Without warning, the police began to use force to …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Hayes v. Rutledge

4:21-cv-00347 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 30, 2021

After the Coronavirus pandemic emerged in early 2020, the US Federal Government mobilized to bolster the US economy by creating advanced tax credits, also known as stimulus payments. While Congress explicitly stated the eligibility of incarcerated folks for these stimulus payments, the State of Arkansas passed an act—Act 1110—on April 26, 2021, which allowed Arkansas’ Department of Corrections (ADC) to seize any "federal relief or stimulus funds" from people in its custody. This act prevented a…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Gibbs v. City of Jackson, Mississippi

3:22-cv-00099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Jackson Police Department’s policy known as “ticket, arrest, and tow” (TAT), under which the police department installed a disproportionate number of vehicular roadblock checks in majority Black and low-income neighborhoods, justifying them as necessary for crime control.  On February 23, 2022, individuals who had encountered or were likely to encounter roadblocks established by the Jackson Police Department for purposes of general crime control filed this lawsuit in th…