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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

Closed Date: Dec. 9, 2019

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 minor, 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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Chatman v. Otani

1:21-cv-00268 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: June 9, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2021

This class action lawsuit, brought in 2021 by persons incarcerated or detained in Hawai'i correctional facilities, alleged that the conditions in the state's jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic had contributed to multiple COVID-19 outbreaks and sought implementation of health and safety protocols. On June 8, 2021, this case was removed from Hawaii’s First Circuit Court to the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. On June 9, plaintiffs filed their first amended class action …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gallagher v. N.Y. State Board of Elections

1:20-cv-05504 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 17, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2021

This is a case about mail-in voting in the 2020 primary and general elections in New York. On May 1, 2020, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order that meant to expand access to mail-in voting by eliminating the need for voters to pay postage for mailed ballots. Instead, the addressee (the voter’s local board of elections) would pay for postage on receipt. The order, however, created a legal “snafu” — New York election law requires absentee ballots to be received or postmarked by e…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Tucson Women's Center v. Arizona Medical Board

2:09-cv-01909 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2009

Closed Date: March 5, 2010

This case challenged Arizona abortion restrictions enacted 2009 requiring patients to wait 24 hours after an initial appointment to receive an abortion, and prohibiting physicians from billing patients until after the 24-hour waiting period ended. On September 14, 2009, a coalition of medical clinics and physicians filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the attorney general of Arizona and the executive director of the Arizona Medical Board…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:19-cv-07777 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. District court judges from across the countries granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the public char…
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 (see PC-CA-0057), plaintiffs sought relief before a single district judge. This has been granted in part; on April 10, Judge Mueller ordered the defendants to provide a strategic plan for achieving compliance with CDC guidance on managing COVID-19 in correctional detention facilities. On April 24, the court ordered the Program…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Minnis v. Johnson

1:10-cv-00096 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2010

Closed Date: March 30, 2016

On January 29, 2010, prisoners in the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) who were deaf or hard of hearing filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, and Virginia state law against Virginia state agencies, departments, and employees thereof. The plaintiffs, represented by the Washington Lawyers Committee a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
VanValkenburg v. Oregon Department of Corrections

3:14-cv-00916 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 6, 2014

Closed Date: 2017

On June 6, 2014, a deaf prison inmate who primarily communicates in American Sign Language filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Oregon against the Oregon Department of Corrections. The plaintiff brought disability discrimination claims under the ADA and a state anti-discrimination statute, as well as an unjust enrichment claim. The plaintiff, represented by private attorneys, sought $460,000 in damages, claiming that there was a failure by the prison system to communicate with him since the…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hawaii v. Trump

1:17-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

The below summary is a condensed version. The full summary can be found here on the Clearinghouse website. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin filed this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 against President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants, visitors, and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a concurrent complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. Distr…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Tanvir v. Holder

1:13-cv-06951 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2013

Case Ongoing

On October 1, 2013, an American Muslim man who was repeatedly denied boarding flights in the United States because of his alleged inclusion on the federal No Fly List, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), which created and maintained the No Fly List. On Apri…