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POLICING
Street v. O'Toole

4:19-cv-02590 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a federal class action lawsuit for monetary damages against the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) for its response to anti-police brutality protests on September 17, 2017. For the injunctive suit filed by the ACLU of Missouri against the City of St. Louis that also arose out of the events of September 17, 2017, see Ahmad v. City of St. Louis. Following the acquittal on September 15, 2017, of an SLMPD officer for the 2011 killing of the 24-year-old Black man, Anthony Lamar…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roppolo v. Linthicum

2:19-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 11, 2017, individuals with Hepatitis C detained by the state of Texas brought this suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its medical providers: Correctional Managed Healthcare Committee and the University of Texas Medical Branch. Hepatitis C, if left untreated, causes severe damage to a person’s liver. Yet Texas refused to provide Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) medications to persons in custody of its state prison system, which the plaintiffs alleged viola…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hope v. Doll

1:20-cv-00562 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a hybrid putative class action and habeas action filed by a group of medically vulnerable individuals being held in civil detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at York County Prison and Pike County Correctional Facility. The plaintiffs sought safety remedies and release from detention in light of COVID-19. The court granted the plaintiffs’ temporary restraining order on April 7, 2020, a decision the defendants appealed. The Third Circuit vacated the lo…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Iglesias v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

3:19-CV-00415 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

In this case, a transgender person incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) sought gender-affirming health care and placement in a women's prison. The plaintiff, who was assigned male at birth, filed a pro se complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on April 12, 2019. The case was assigned to District Judge J. Phil Gilbert. In her complaint, she brought numerous legal claims against BOP officials centered around the agency's failure to provide her wi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC) or the Erie County Correctional Facili…
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Rodriguez v. Finan

2:15-cv-02317 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 8, 2015

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2022

Named plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit on June 8, 2015, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina against the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education (“CHE”), the College of Charleston, and Trident Technical College. Their lawsuit challenged the defendants’ policies classifying U.S. citizen students residing in South Carolina as non-residents for the purposes of tuition, state merit scholarships, and need-based grants if they are dependents of parents who are…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Trump

2:17-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2022

This class action challenged President Trump's January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) which prohibited admission to the US for nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs commenced this lawsuit on February 7, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Washington and private counsel. On November 29, 2017, this case was consolidated with Jewish Family Service of Seattle v. Trump, No…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Harrison v. Madigan

1:10-cv-03425 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 4, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2012

This class action, filed on June 4, 2010 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, challenged a Palos Hills Police Department policy under which every person taken into custody was subjected to video monitoring and recording while using the toilet. Plaintiff, along with a class of others who had been subjected to the policy after arrest, sued the Village of Palos Hills and its police chief, Paul J. Madigan, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Am…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.H. v. Hinds County

3:11-cv-00327 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

On June 1, 2011, a child imprisoned at the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against Hinds County, Mississippi under 42 U.S.C § 1983. The plaintiff, represented by attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleged that the county's confinement policies and practices violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, the plaintiff alleged excessive confinement in cells, inadequate menta…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ackerman v. Washington

4:13-cv-14137 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2013

Case Ongoing

This case concerns a Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) policy enacted in 2013 that replaced all previously offered religious diets with a vegan one. On September 27, 2013, three Orthodox Jewish men who were incarcerated at Central Michigan Correctional Facility filed this lawsuit pro se against MDOC’s Director, Special Activities Coordinator, and Food Service Director in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They sought declaratory and inju…