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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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc. v. Van Hollen

3:13-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: June 28, 2013

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the constitutionality of a Wisconsin statute requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of where the abortion is performed. On July 5, 2013, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Women's Medical Services, and two board-certified medical doctors at Planned Parenthood filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued the Wisconsin attorney general, the Dane C…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
King v. State of Georgia

1:21-cv-03082 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

A group of private plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and private counsel, filed this putative class action in Georgia state court on June 22, 2021. They alleged that delays in the State of Georgia’s unemployment benefits system during the COVID-19 pandemic violated Georgia state law, the Georgia state constitution, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief as well as compensatory damages. Georgi…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Horton v. Rangos

2:22-cv-01391 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about probation detainers that were allegedly used to detain a purported class of individuals in Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) for many months, or even years, without lawful justification and with almost no meaningful opportunity to obtain release. Probation detainers are orders preventing the release of individuals from jail when those individuals are on probation at the time of their arrest. On October 2, 2022, six individuals detained at ACJ filed a putative class action lawsuit…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baxley v. Jividen

3:18-cv-01526 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: The plaintiffs in this West Virginia jail conditions class-action case filed an emergency motion for relief on March 25, 2020, seeking an order to require the defendants to develop, disclose, and implement a plan to take appropriate actions to protect the plaintiff class from COVID-19. The court denied the motion because it found that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim. On December 18, 2018, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at West Virginia…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Anonymous Plaintiffs 1-5 v. Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana

49D01-2209-PL-031056 | Indiana state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge, on religious grounds, to Indiana's post-Dobbs anti-abortion law. Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 1 (SEA 1) criminalized all abortion, from conception onwards, except in some cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormality, or when the pregnant woman faces the risk of death or certain severe health risks. This Indiana ban was the first to make it to the books following the Supreme Court's June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health. The ACLU of Indiana filed this c…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
Eidler v. Brookdale Senior Living

4:17-cv-03962 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 13, 2017

Case Ongoing

On July 13, 2017, elderly and dependent residents with physical or cognitive impairments who lived in assisted living facilities, represented by private counsel, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the US District Court of the Northern District of California under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and California state law against the corporation that owned the facilities. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendant's California facilities and services failed to meet access…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Driver v. Marion County Sheriff

1:14-cv-02076 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2014

Closed Date: Aug. 8, 2022

On December 19, 2014, individuals who were incarcerated in the Marion County correctional system filed this class-action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued the Marion County Sheriff and the Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought money damages for a class of individuals who were incarcerated in the Marion County correctional system for unreasonable pe…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McBean v. City of New York

1:02-cv-05426 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 15, 2002

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2010

On July 15, 2002, inmates of New York City jails filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of New York and jail officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the Court in a series of amended complaints for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the defendants had violated their constitutional rights by subjecting them to strip searches in the absence of re…