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134 cases, 143 documents
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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Abrego Garcia v. Noem

8:25-cv-00951 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2025

Case Ongoing

On March 15, 2025, as reported by several news outlets, the second Trump administration deported almost 300 noncitizens—mostly Venezuelan nationals and some Salvadoran nationals—to El Salvador without going through any legal process in front of an immigration judge. Upon arrival, they were sent to the country’s mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center or CECOT. This lawsuit challenged the deportation of one of the Salvadoran nationals, who had actually won protection from removal several y…
EDUCATION
State of Tennessee v. Cardona

2:24-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 30, 2024

Case Ongoing

In this case, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia challenged the U.S. Department of Education’s regulation (the “Rule”) which interpreted Title IX’s definition of sex discrimination to include discrimination based on gender identity, expanded the definition of harassment, and incorporated a de minimis harm standard for determining sex discrimination. The Rule went into effect on August 1, 2024, but has been enjoined from enforcement in several states due to this case …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Poot v. San Francisco County Sheriff's Department

4:19-cv-02722 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 20, 2019

Closed Date: March 31, 2023

This case involves allegations of sleep denial and disruption brought by eight pre-trial detainees in jails under the control of San Francisco County. On May 20, 2019, eight pre-trial detainees housed in two jails under the control of San Francisco County filed a putative class action on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs alleged that conditions in two San Francisco County Jails led to denial and disr…
CHILD WELFARE
Gary G. v. Gavin Newsom

5:23-cv-00947 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 25, 2023

Case Ongoing

This putative class-action lawsuit on behalf of more than 5,800 youths was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on May 25, 2023 against the governor of California, the California Department of Social Services ("CDSS"), San Bernadino County, its Board of Supervisors, and the San Bernardino County Children and Family Services ("CFS"). The complaint alleged that CFS failed to protect those under its care. The plaintiffs, represented by A Better Childhood and priv…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Saravia v. Sessions

3:17-cv-03615 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case, filed on June 22, 2017, was brought by a parent on behalf of her minor child for wrongful incarceration by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The complaint alleged that the child, A.H., was released into the plaintiff's custody but that a few years later, ICE arrested and detained him without cause. Represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and the private law firm Cooley LLP, the plaintiff argued that the government violated th…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. Trump

1:21-cv-00400 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the violent insurrection and disruption of Congress on January 6, 2021, while Congress approved the results of the Electoral College in order to elect the next President and Vice President of the United States. On February 16, 2021, a member of the United States House of Representatives, in his personal capacity, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented by private counsel and the NAACP, the plaintiff sued the President…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Brown v. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:16-cv-00945 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 30, 2016

Closed Date: June 6, 2019

Nine current and former inmates at Roxbury Correctional Institute who are blind brought a discrimination lawsuit against the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. One individual inmate filed his complaint on March 30, 2016, and five days later this case was consolidated with eight other cases. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Federation of the Blind and Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland, alleged tha…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Doe v. State of Ohio

2:91-cv-00464 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 10, 1991

Case Ongoing

This is a case about special education in Ohio's public schools. This lawsuit was brought on May 9, 1991, by a student (through his parent), a teacher, a local Board of Education, and a district superintendent. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and later by the Ohio Legal Rights Service, sued the state of Ohio, the State Board of Education, the state superintendent, and the state Department of Education. The plaintiffs sued under state constitutional and statutory law, 42 U.S.C. § …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Association of American Universities v. Department of Health & Human Services

1:25-cv-10346 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the Trump Administration's policy change slashing indirect cost reimbursements for projects funded by the National Institutes of Health. On February 10, 2025, the Association of American Universities (AAU), American Council on Education (ACE), Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), and thirteen universities (listed at the end of this summary) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Department of Health a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Minnis v. Johnson

1:10-cv-00096 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2010

Closed Date: March 30, 2016

On January 29, 2010, prisoners in the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) who were deaf or hard of hearing filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, and Virginia state law against Virginia state agencies, departments, and employees thereof. The plaintiffs, represented by the Washington Lawyers Committee a…