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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Demontray Hunter v. Kimberly Boswell, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental Health

2:16-cv-00798 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenged the failure of the state of Alabama to provide court-ordered inpatient mental evaluations that are used to determine competency to stand trial, and to provide competency restoration treatment to persons committed to its custody in a timely manner. In their complaint, Plaintiffs alleged that pretrial detainees remained incarcerated in a county jail for up to eight months after a court order committing them to the Department for treatment or evaluation, in jails that are…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

3:19-cv-00233 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2024

This is a case about access to the Federal Register in prison. The plaintiff, who was incarcerated in federal prison, filed this lawsuit on February 22, 2019, against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Though the plaintiff's initial complaint was about an unrelated issue, in a subsequent amended complaint (filed January 10, 2020) the plaintiff brought a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act against the US Attorney Gener…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
PFLAG, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump

8:25-cv-00337 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the legality of two executive orders issued by President Trump, EO 14168 and EO 14187. The EOs aimed to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender individuals under the age of nineteen. On February 4, 2025, PFLAG Inc., alongside the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights (GLMA) and several individual plaintiffs, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued President Trump, the U.S…
PRISON CONDITIONS
(PC) Watson v. Sisto

2:07-cv-01871 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2007

Closed Date: March 9, 2012

On August 28, 2007, plaintiff, initially proceeding pro se, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. On September 10, 2007, this case was transferred to the Eastern District of California. This case is presided over by Judge Lawrence K. Karlton.   Plaintiff alleged that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs, claiming violation of his First and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiff sought compensatory damages, punitive damages, cost…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
West Alabama Women's Center v. Miller

2:15-cv-00497 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 10, 2015

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2019

On July 10, 2015, the West Alabama Women’s Center, its Medical Director, and a physician it employed (collectively, the “Clinic”), sued Alabama's State Health Officer (“SHO”) in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Represented by the ACLU, the Clinic challenged an Alabama statute that required every physician who performed an abortion at a licensed abortion clinic to have staff privileges at a local hospital or, alternatively, that the clinic have a written agree…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Maryland v. United States Department of Agriculture

1:25-cv-00748 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

Case Ongoing

On March 6, 2025, twenty states and the District of Columbia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Plaintiffs named a number of U.S. Agencies as defendants, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They challenged the defendants' large-scale firing of federal civil servants. Specifically, plaintiffs alleged that defendants failed to adhere to statutory and regulatory reduction in force (RIF) notice procedures, thereby severely hampering plaintiffs' abi…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, mecha…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Texas & Missouri v. United States

2:21-cv-00067 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 13, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Biden Administration's termination of the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy, Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which required individuals at the U.S.-Mexico border to wait in Mexico pending adjudication of their immigration claims. On President Biden's first day in office, January 20, 2021, the federal government suspended new enrollments in the program, functionally suspending MPP. A few months later, on April 13, 2021, the states of Texas and Missouri filed this l…
POLICING
United States v. City of Meridian

3:13-cv-00978 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2012

Case Ongoing

DOJ Investigation; Lawsuit (2011–2012) On December 1, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division launched an investigation into the Meridian Police Department and the Lauderdale County Youth Court under 42 U.S.C. § 14141 and 42 U.S.C. § 2000d. The DOJ later expanded its investigation to include the Mississippi Division of Youth Services. On August 10, 2012, the DOJ published findings that these agencies had a pattern or pattern or practice of arresting public school studen…
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…