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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Noel v. New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission

1:11-cv-00237 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 13, 2011

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

On January 13, 2011, New York wheelchair users and several disability rights organizations filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the New York City Human Rights Law. Represented by Disabilities Right Advocates, the plaintiffs claimed the TLC failed to give meaningful access to per…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores Tejada v. Godfrey

2:16-cv-01454 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 14, 2016, a Mexican citizen who had been previously detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the local Field Office Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Director of ICE, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Attorney General of the U.S., and the wa…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…
EDUCATION
Biediger v. Quinnipiac University

3:09-cv-00621 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 16, 2009

Case Ongoing

In March 2009, Quinnipiac University announced plans to cut its women's volleyball team, men's golf team, and men's outdoor track team. At the same time, the University pledged to create a new varsity sport, competitive cheerleading, for the 2009-10 season. Plaintiffs, who were five current Quinnipiac women's varsity volleyball players and their coach, filed this lawsuit against Quinnipiac in response, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, on April 16, 2009. They were r…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Maynor v. Morgan County, Ala.

5:01-cv-00851 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 5, 2001

Case Ongoing

On April 5, 2001, attorneys with the Southern Center for Human Rights and private counsel filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Morgan County Jail. The jail, which was alleged to have been old, antiquated, and structurally unfit for human habitation, housed both pre-trial detainees and convicted prisoners. Plaintiffs alleged that the Jail was severely overcrowded and that i…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Marria v. Broadus

1:97-cv-08297 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 1997

Case Ongoing

On November 10, 1997, an inmate at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, New York, filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that his constitutional rights had been violated when the prison refus…
JAIL CONDITIONS
O'Day v. Nassau County

0:99-cv-02844 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 20, 1999

Case Ongoing

On May 20, 1999, plaintiffs filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Represented by private New York attorneys, the plaintiffs challenged the blanket strip search policy of the Nassau County Correctional Center. Under the policy, the plaintiffs alleged, all misdemeanor and minor offense arrestees were strip-searched, without reasonable suspicion that the arrestees were concealing weapons or other contraband. The plaintiffs allege…
EDUCATION
Fobbs v. New Haven Unified School District

4:10-cv-01065 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2009

This case was one of several suits filed against Union City (the “City”) and the New Haven Unified School District (the “District”) following the 2007 death of a 14-year-old Black student who was shot to death by members of a long gang while on the premises of a middle school. The plaintiffs, parents of current and former Black students in the District, sued on behalf of their children. Many of the children witnessed the 2007 shooting, and others faced racially-motivated violence on school grou…
EDUCATION
E.E. v. California

3:21-cv-07585 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

On September 28, 2021, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against the state of California, the California Board of Education, and the California Department of Education. Plaintiffs were students with disabilities and an organization that advocates for disabled students and their families. They were represented by Disability Rights California. They sought to represent a class of "all California students who, now or in the future, have an Individual Education Plan and whose parent, guardian …
NATIONAL SECURITY
Leopold v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:19-cv-01278 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 2, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 2, 2019, Buzzfeed News and one of its reporters filed a complaint under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI. The complaint stated that the plaintiffs had filed an initial FOIA request with the DOJ on March 21, 2019 seeking the following information on an expedited timeline:Copies of any and all records, which includes but is not limited to FBI 302s, emails, memos, letters, c…