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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Chambers v. Rodham Clinton

1:16-cv-10408 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 2016

Closed Date: Feb. 9, 2017

This 2016 case involved outlandish allegations from a pro se plaintiff against a wide array of current and former government officials.  On November 7, 2016, the plaintiff filed suit in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seeking to have the Court deem former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as a number of other named officials, as "not qualified" to run for public office.  This stemmed from the alleged fact there are "millions of illegal immigrants" in the Unit…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Does, 1-104 v. Wasden

1:16-cv-00429 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2016

On September 22, 2016, this complaint was filed under 42 U.S.C. §1983 on behalf of 104 unnamed sexual offenders, identified as John or Jane Does, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Idaho against the Idaho Attorney General, the Idaho Department of Corrections, and the Idaho State Police Force. The plaintiffs alleged that Idaho’s Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-to-Know Act (“SORA”) was unconstitutionally vague in violation of the Due Process and …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Miller v. Bexar County Texas

5:23-cv-00085 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2023

Closed Date: March 25, 2024

This is a lawsuit alleging that for many years, detainees in Bexar County, Texas, were held for extended periods after posting bail, despite being entitled to release.  On January 24, 2023, the Plaintiff, who had himself been held after posting bail, filed this putative class action lawsuit against Bexar County Jail, alleging violations of court orders mandating the release of detainees upon posting bail. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas and ass…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Warren v. City of Chico

2:21-cv-00640 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 8, 2021

Involuntarily unhoused residents of Chico, California, filed this lawsuit against the City of Chico and the City of Chico Police Department, challenging the City’s ordinances that criminalized homelessness by banning camping and storing personal property in public places. Represented by attorneys from Legal Services of Northern California, on April 8, 2021, eight individuals sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and alleged violations of their rights guaranteed by the Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amend…
PUBLIC HOUSING
LA Alliance for Human Rights v. City of Los Angeles

2:20-cv-02291 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 10, 2020

This case is a follow-up to Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles, in which advocates for unhoused people successfully pushed the City of Los Angeles to limit its removal of property in encampments in the Skid Row area of the city. LA Alliance for Human Rights, a community group that primarily represents the interests of business owners, homeowners, and property renters, unsuccessfully attempted to intervene in Mitchell and brought this case after that settlement was reached. LA Alliance filed this a…
POLICING
Cox v. Voyles

2:15-cv-01386 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: July 22, 2015

Closed Date: April 30, 2018

On July 22, 2015, a private citizen filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiff sued several Pinal County officials, including the county attorney, sheriff, clerk of the superior court, and deputy county attorney, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU, the plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief as well as monetary damages. The case was assigned to Judge Diane Joyce Humetewa.  The plaintiff claimed that the en…
POLICING
Harrison v. Vanderkooi

No. 14-002166 | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 22, 2023

This case concerns the constitutionality of fingerprinting an individual during a search. In March 2014, a Black teenager sued a Grand Rapids Police Department (“GRPD”) officer and the City of Grand Rapids (“City”) in the Kent Circuit Court under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, and 1988. The plaintiff alleged that he was walking home from school on May 31, 2012 and gave a friend a large model train engine for a school project. As he walked into a nearby park, the police stopped him, searched him and h…
POLICING
Johnson v. Vanderkooi

No. 14-002166 | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2014

This case concerns the constitutionality of fingerprinting an individual during a search. On August 7, 2014, a Black teenager sued the City of Grand Rapids and individual Grand Rapids Police Department (“GRPD”) officers in the 17th Circuit Court for Kent County, Michigan under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, and 1988. He alleged that the officers stopped him as he was walking through a parking lot and took his photograph and fingerprints. He claimed the officers’ actions: (1) violated the Equal Protec…
POLICING
Abbate v. Ramsey

1:03-cv-00767 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 27, 2003

Closed Date: Jan. 24, 2005

This case concerns the legality of the mass arrests and detentions of anti-war demonstrators conducted by the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”). On March 27, 2003, five individual protestors filed a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, on behalf of the more than 400 people who were surrounded, arrested, and detained while demonstrating in Pershing Park. Represented by the ACLU of the National Capital Area, the …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Demler v. Inch

4:19-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 7, 2022

On February 19, 2019, a man serving a life sentence in a Florida prison filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiff sued the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and the Declaratory Judgment Act. The case was ultimately assigned to Judge Robert L. Hinkle. The plaintiff, represented by the Social Justice Law Collective and the Florida Justice Institute, sought a declaration that the De…