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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
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 jails refused to provide Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) medications, which the plaintiffs alleged was the treatment needed to comply with the Eigh…
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association v. Lamont

20-cv-6126477 | Connecticut state trial court

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Closed Date: June 8, 2020

COVID-19 summary: The ACLU of Connecticut filed this suit on April 3, 2020 asking the court to intervene and force the Governor of Connecticut and the state's Correction Commissioner to reduce the number of individuals incarcerated in the state's jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic. The trial court dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction, and the plaintiffs appealed, however they withdrew the appeal on June 6, 2020. On April 3, 2020, the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Assoc…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Alcantara v. Archambeault

3:20-cv-00756 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a habeas petition brought on behalf of medically vulnerable immigration detainees confined in two detention centers in California. The plaintiffs were granted a temporary restraining order and released from detention on April 30, 2020. The motion for preliminary injunctions for both subclasses were denied on May 26 and July 22. The parties engaged in discovery as well as settlement discussions throughout late 2020 and 2021, and the case is currently stayed.This is a cl…