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PRISON CONDITIONS
Cano v. City of New York

1:13-cv-03341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 11, 2013

Closed Date: May 11, 2018

On June 12, 2013, 21 individuals who were detained in Brooklyn Central Booking (BCB) for 10-24 hours between arrest and arraignment brought this action against the City of New York and New York Police Department (NYPD) officials in their individual and official capacities. The plaintiffs brought suit on behalf of a putative class of all individuals held in BCB between June 12, 2010 and June 12, 2013. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their Fourteenth Amendment r…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Illinois v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02112 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 8, 2021

This case was about Illinois election law (candidate nomination and signature gathering procedures) during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 election. The Libertarian Party of Illinois, the Green Party of Illinois, and several independent candidates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on April 2, 2020. Defendants were various members of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Plaintiffs challenged signature-gathering requirements for ballot qualification duri…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Priorities USA v. Nessel

4:19-cv-13341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on November 12, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff, a left-wing advocacy group called Priorities USA, sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in her official capacity. They were represented by private counsel. The group claimed that two Michigan laws, the "Voter Transportation Ban" and the "Absentee Ballot Organizing Ban," violated the U.S. Constitution. The Voter Transportation Ban prohibited the hiring of vehicles to b…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Moran v. Landrum-Johnson

2:19-cv-13553 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 11, 2019

Closed Date: April 5, 2021

On November 11, 2019, a pretrial detainee filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana alleging that twelve judges of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court ("OPCDC") unlawfully imposed secured financial conditions of release in an amount that individuals cannot afford, without any inquiry into or findings concerning their ability to pay or alternatives to incarceration. The lawsuit was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201–…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools

1:18-cv-01134 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

Case Ongoing

On October 2, 2018, a deaf student filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan against Sturgis Public Schools and the Sturgis Public Schools Board of Education. The plaintiff was represented by Michigan’s Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Service and the National Association of the Deaf Law and Advocacy Center. The plaintiff sued under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA), and Michigan’s Persons with Disabilities…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States of America v. Wells Fargo Bank

1:12-cv-01150 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 12, 2012

Case Ongoing

On July 12, 2012, the United States, on behalf of over 34,000 African-American and Hispanic borrowers, filed a lawsuit under the Fair Housing and Equal Credit Opportunity Acts in the United States District Court, District of Columbia. Plaintiff, represented by attorneys from the United States Department of Justice, asked the court for injunctive and monetary relief, claiming that the discriminatory lending practices of Defendant adversely affected African American and Hispanic borrowers. Specif…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Gibson v. Forest Hills School District Board of Education

1:11-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 7, 2011

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2016

The plaintiffs, parents of a student with a disability, represented by Disability Rights Ohio, prevailed in part in an administrative complaint against a school district alleging that it failed to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). They filed a separate complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for attorneys’ fees on June 7, 2011, where it was docketed as No. 1:11-cv-00329. That case was a…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights North Carolina v. Moses Cone Health Systems

1:11-cv-00812 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 11, 2013

This is a case about whether a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency can use its access authority to receive peer review and internal investigation records regarding a deceased psychiatric facility resident. On September 30, 2011 Disability Rights North Carolina (Disability Rights NC) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. DR North Carolina filed this lawsuit against Moses Cone Health Systems (Moses Cone), a medical center with an inpatient psych…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction

1:17-cv-00151 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 6, 2017

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff in this case is a transgender, Native American woman. She was incarcerated at facilities run by the Idaho Department of Corrections. Despite multiple attempts at self-castration, the Idaho Department of Corrections and its employees had denied her medically necessary care, refused to transfer her, and failed to provide accommodations for her to express her gender identity. The defendants refused to provide the plaintiff with hormone treatment and gender confirmation surgery. Becau…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gladney v. Shartle

4:17-cv-00427 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 24, 2022

This is a case filed by a transgender woman incarcerated in federal prison alleging a violation of the Federal Tort Claims Act. The plaintiff filed her complaint, pro se, in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona on August 28, 2017, against the Bureau of Prisons. The case was assigned to Judge David C. Bury.  In her complaint, the plaintiff alleged that she was the victim of a sexual assault by another incarcerated person in May of 2016. At the time, the plaintiff was hous…