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PRISON CONDITIONS
Coleman v. Brown

2:90-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 1990

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action for California prisoners with mental illness. After a three-judge court denied a motion for a prisoner release order as premature, plaintiffs sought relief before a single district judge. Relief has been achieved to an extent. The defendants have continued to comply with the broader injunction while staying mindful of the public health demands of the pandemic. In particular, the parties have been able to reach agreements concerning quarantine and isolati…
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
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
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American Medical Association v. Stenehjem

1:19-cv-00125 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: June 25, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about constitutional challenges to two North Dakota laws that required physicians to provide patients with misleading and non-medical information about reproductive health. On June 25, 2019, American Medical Association, a North Dakota clinic, and the clinic’s medical director, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Attorney General o…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights South Carolina v. McMaster

3:21-cv-02728 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a South Carolina ban on public primary and secondary school mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2021, the South Carolina legislature passed its general budget, which included a proviso prohibiting school districts from using appropriated funds to impose mask mandates in schools. On August 24, 2021, Disability Rights South Carolina, Able South Carolina, and parents of South Carolina public school students with disabilities sued the South Carolina governor, at…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
S.A. et al v. Trump

3:18-cv-03539 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 13, 2018

Case Ongoing

Applicants and beneficiaries of the Central American Minors (CAM) parole program filed this class-action lawsuit on June 13, 2018, challenging the Trump Administration's termination of the program and its revocation of parole for nearly 3,000 children. Seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as that the defendants be equitably estopped, the plaintiffs alleged that the termination of the program violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), regulations promulgated by the Department…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Irish 4 Reproductive Health v. United States Department of Health and Human Services

3:18-cv-00491 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

The suit challenged a settlement agreement between the Trump Administration and the University of Notre Dame to deny students, employees, and their dependents insurance coverage of contraceptive care guaranteed to them by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The lawsuit also challenged the Trump administration’s interim final rules announced in October 2017 that would have allowed virtually any employer or university to refuse to comply with the ACA contraceptive coverage requirement. On June 26, 201…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Kenny v. Wilson

2:16-cv-02794 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 11, 2016, the non-profit, Girls Rock, and four students of South Carolina public schools, filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of South Carolina and the heads of twelve South Carolina Police Departments under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the court for a declaratory judgement that two South Carolina codes, commonly referred to as the "Disturbin…
POLICING
Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles v. City of Los Angeles

2:20-cv-05027 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 5, 2020

Case Ongoing

On June 5th, 2020, Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles (BLMLA) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.BLMLA was represented by the National Lawyers Guild as well as the following private firms: McLane, Bednarski & Litt; Schonbrun, Seplow, Harris, Hoffman, & Zeldes; and Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall was assigned to the case. The case arose out of the nationwide protests following the police killing of George Flo…