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POLICING
Smith v. City of Chicago

1:06-cv-06423 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 2006

Case Ongoing

This civil rights class action lawsuit challenged the Chicago Police Department’s asset forfeiture program. The named plaintiffs were persons who had property seized and detained by the Chicago Police Department pursuant to the Illinois Drug Asset Forfeiture Procedure Act (725 ILCS 150) and who had not been afforded a prompt post-seizure hearing to determine probable cause for the property seizure. On November 2, 2006, the plaintiffs filed their initial complaint against the City of Chicago, Su…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Bryant v. Woodall

1:16-cv-01368 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2022

On November 30, 2016, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to overturn a North Carolina law that prevented doctors from providing pre-viability abortions after the twentieth week of pregnancy except in narrowly defined medical emergencies. Plaintiffs based their argument on established United States Supreme Court precedent, now overruled, prohibiting a ban on abortion pri…
EDUCATION
Eccleston v. Pine Bush Central School District

7:12-cv-02303 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 28, 2012

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2018

On March 28th, 2012, five former and current Jewish students filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the Pine Bush School District. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for declarative judgment, injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the school district had responded with deliberate indifference to the rampant anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment directed at the plaintif…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana, Inc. v. Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health

1:11-cv-00630 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 10, 2011

Case Ongoing

On May 10, 2011, the ACLU of Indiana, the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood of Indiana filed a lawsuit against several Indiana state officials challenging the 2011 House Enrolled Act 1210 (HEA 1210). Additionally, two medical employees of Planned Parenthood and two women who were enrolled in the Medicaid program and routinely received non-abortion related services from Planned Parenthood were also named Plaintiffs. The named defendants included the Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Hea…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Stephen C. v. Bureau of Indian Education

3:17-cv-08004 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, several former and current students at Havasupai Elementary School, a Bureau of Indian Education school located on the Havasupai Reservation in Arizona, and Native American Disability Law Center (“NADLC”), filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona alleging that they were denied educational opportunities guaranteed to them by federal law. The plaintiffs, who proceeded individually, were represented by attorneys from NADLC, Public Counsel, the ACLU…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aziz v. Trump

1:17-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 1, 2017

On January 28, 2017, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and Mayer Brown, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs brought the action as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. They simultaneously filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order (TRO). The plaintiffs were 50 to 60 lawful permanent residen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Texas v. Biden

4:21-cv-00579 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether the Biden Administration’s order creating an exception to regulations expelling migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic for unaccompanied minors violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Immigration Nationality Act (INA). On April 22, 2021, Texas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. They sued the President along with the agencies charged with creating and implementing the order (CDC, DHS, HHS, CBP, and ICE) fo…