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Soos v. Cuomo

1:20-cv-00651 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: June 10, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 16, 2021

As part of New York’s ban on gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic, attendance at houses of worship and outdoor religious gatherings was strictly limited. In June 2020, state and city officials allowed mass gatherings protesting the death of George Floyd, but continued to actively enforce prohibitions against congregational worship. On June 10, 2020, two Catholic priests and three Orthodox Jews filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. They alleged that Gove…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Cano v. City of New York

1:13-cv-03341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 11, 2013

Closed Date: May 11, 2018

On June 12, 2013, 21 individuals who were detained in Brooklyn Central Booking (BCB) for 10-24 hours between arrest and arraignment brought this action against the City of New York and New York Police Department (NYPD) officials in their individual and official capacities. The plaintiffs brought suit on behalf of a putative class of all individuals held in BCB between June 12, 2010 and June 12, 2013. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their Fourteenth Amendment r…
POLICING
Wood v. de Blasio

1:20-cv-10541 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff, a 31-year-old resident of Queens, New York, brought this lawsuit against the City of New York and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) on December 14, 2020 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleged that NYPD officers, with the approval of their supervisors, regularly used excessive force against and falsely arrested peaceful protesters during the widespread racial justice protests that took place in the summer of 2020. …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Florida v. United States

3:21-cv-01066 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the government’s policies and practices concerning undocumented immigrants at the United States-Mexico border. On September 28, 2021, the State of Florida filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Florida sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Ci…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Braid v. Stilley

1:21-cv-05283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Closed Date: Dec. 7, 2022

The Center for Reproductive Rights and private counsel filed this suit on October 5, 2021 on behalf of a physician who violated S.B. 8, the Texas law banning abortion care at approximately six weeks of pregnancy, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was an interpleader action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act and sought a declaration that S.B. 8 was unconstitutional. The case was assigned to Judge Jorge Alonso.  The interpleader action was brought …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Arizona Incorporated v. Brnovich

2:15-cv-01022 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 4, 2015

Closed Date: May 8, 2020

This is a case about abortion providers and physicians challenging the constitutionality of a provision within Arizona's S.B. 1318 (the “Act”). On June 4, 2015, Planned Parenthood of Arizona, alongside a private physician practice and two board-certified obstetricians and gynecologists, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, seeking a declaratory judgment and preliminary injunctive relief on behalf of themselves and their patients. The plaintiffs sue…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
A.P.F. v. United States

2:20-cv-00065 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

The Trump Administration implemented an immigration policy from 2017 to 2018, which called for the separation of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border.  Two immigrant parents filed this lawsuit on January 10, 2020 against the U.S. government in the U.S. District Court for Arizona.  The case was originally assigned to District Judge Susan M. Brnovich.  These parents were allegedly separated by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials for two months from their children, who were sent …
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

Case Ongoing

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 child, 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…
POLICING
Holden v. The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

1:17-cv-02192 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

On March 27, 2017, two men sued the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority), Port Authority Police Department (Department), and Department officers alleging discriminatory false arrests in Port Authority Bus Terminal (Bus Terminal) bathrooms. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was initially assigned to Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants falsely arrested the plaintiffs and other …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…