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98 cases, 104 documents
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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-10676 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 23, 2025

Case Ongoing

This class action challenges Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deportations of noncitizens to countries that are not their designated country of removal, without first providing opportunity demonstrate their fear of persecution, torture, and even death in those third countries. Four anonymous class plaintiffs, all noncitizens from Central America and currently residing in Massachusetts, filed this lawsuit on March 23, 2025 in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusett…
EDUCATION
State of Tennessee v. Cardona

2:24-cv-00072 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 30, 2024

Case Ongoing

In this case, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia challenged the U.S. Department of Education’s regulation (the “Rule”) which interpreted Title IX’s definition of sex discrimination to include discrimination based on gender identity, expanded the definition of harassment, and incorporated a de minimis harm standard for determining sex discrimination. The Rule went into effect on August 1, 2024, but has been enjoined from enforcement in several states due to this case …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology, Inc.

1:08-cv-00827 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case involves allegations of abuse and torture suffered by four Iraqi men who were detained at Abu Ghraib in 2003. On June 30, 2008, an Iraqi civilian who was imprisoned and allegedly tortured in an Iraq prison filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against two defense contractors—CACI (and its wholly owned subsidiary, collectively known as “CACI Defendants”) and L-3—and a named individual who allegedly worked for CACI as a screener and interro…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Montoya v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:20-cv-03345 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 8, 2022

On November 9, 2020, a blind woman incarcerated in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued CDOC, its Executive Director, and thirteen other staff members. She alleged that defendants violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the Rehabilitation Act, CRIPA, CDOC Administrative Regulations as well as her constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Ame…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gilliam v. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:23-cv-01047 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 18, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of harassment and abuse experienced by three incarcerated transgender women with gender dysphoria--one pretrial detainee and two post-conviction prisoners. All three alleged failure to protect, failure to provide adequate medical care, and cruel and unusual punishment under the 14th Amendment (for the pretrial detainee) or the 8th Amendment. All three also brought claims under the Equal Protection Clause, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United Spinal Association v. Board of Elections in the City of New York

1:10-cv-05653 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 26, 2010

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2020

On July 26, 2010, the United Spinal Association and Disabled in Action represented by Disabled Rights Advocates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Board of Elections in the City of New York under the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.) and the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794). They sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants knowingly failed to fix deficiencies in accessibility at pollin…
POLICING
Asante-Chioke v. Dowdle

2:22-cv-04587 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether police officers used excessive force on a Black man experiencing a mental health crisis. The complaint alleged the following facts. On November 21, 2021, local and state police officers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana responded to an alert that there was a 52-year-old Black man walking along a highway. The man appeared to be visibly distressed and was carrying in his hands what were later identified to be a gun and a knife. Upon arriving on the scene, the officers in…
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Koe v. Noggle

1:23-cv-02904 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 29, 2023

Case Ongoing

On June 29, 2023, four families on behalf of their transgender children, and TransParent, a national organization of parents with transgender children, sued several Georgia officials in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. They challenged a Georgia statute prohibiting medical providers from treating gender dysphoria in minors with hormone therapy, which was scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2023. The plaintiffs alleged that this statute violated the fundamental rig…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Raleigh Wake Citizens Association v. Barefoot

5:15-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: April 9, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 28, 2017

This case involved allegations that the North Carolina General Assembly’s Session Law 2015-4 violated voters’ rights to an equal vote and their right to not be subjected to racial classifications in redistricting. Voters and an association on voters (Raleigh Wake Citizens Association) who lived in election districts that under Session Law 2015-4 were overpopulated to a significant degree, filed suit on April 09, 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Plainti…