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PUBLIC HOUSING
LA Alliance for Human Rights v. City of Los Angeles

2:20-cv-02291 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 10, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is a follow-up to Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles, in which advocates for unhoused people successfully pushed the City of Los Angeles to limit its removal of property in encampments in the Skid Row area of the city. LA Alliance for Human Rights, a community group that primarily represents the interests of business owners, homeowners, and property renters, unsuccessfully attempted to intervene in Mitchell and brought this case after that settlement was reached. LA Alliance filed this a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas

1:21-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2021

Closed Date: May 11, 2023

This is a case about immigration policy that restricted refugee and asylum entry into the United States on account of health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic. On January 12, 2021, families of asylum- and refugee-seekers, who were detained by the Department of Homeland Security, sued the U.S. federal government for humanitarian protection in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. With the spread of coronavirus, on March 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Equality Florida v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 31, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case, filed on March 31, 2022, challenged Florida House Bill 1557, the Florida statute widely known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. H.B. 1557 banned any school instruction on "sexual orientation and gender identity." Equality Florida and Family Equality, two non-profit, public interest organizations, together with individual students, parents, and a teachers brought this suit against the State of Florida, Florida Department of Education, the Florida Board of Education, state officials in their…
CHILD WELFARE
D.S. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families

2:21-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2022

This is a case about the treatment of children in the care of the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) with behavioral health and/or developmental disabilities. On January 28th, 2021, three children under the care of DCYF brought a class-action suit along with Disability Rights Washington against DCYF in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Barbara J. Rothstein. Disability Rights Washington argued …
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. …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Yellowquill v. Scott

4:95-cv-01080 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 13, 1995

Closed Date: Oct. 28, 1998

This is a case about a Native American individual deprived of their right to practice their religion while incarcerated in a Texas prison. On April 13, 1995, a Native American individual incarcerated at the Mountain View Unit (MVU) of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division (TDCJ-ID) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued both TDCJ-ID and MVU officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the First Amendment, the Religious…
EDUCATION
G.G. [Gavin Grimm] v. Gloucester County School Board

4:15-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 11, 2015

Closed Date: Aug. 27, 2021

On June 11, 2015, Gavin Grimm, a sixteen-year-old transgender boy filed this lawsuit against the Gloucester County School Board in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiff, represented by the national and Virginia ACLU, proceeded under Title IX and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He sought a preliminary and permanent injunction allowing him to use the boys' restroom at school, claiming that the school board's policy of requiring transgender students to use a private restroo…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Southern Poverty Law Center v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:18-cv-00760 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 4, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: On May 7, 2020, in this access-to-counsel suit, the plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order in response to COVID-19, directing the defendants to remove access barriers and ameliorate dangerously punitive conditions at the detention facilities at issue, such as providing detainees with access to free and private phone calls. They claimed that the defendants had restricted access to legal visitations due to COVID-19, but failed to accommodate remote communications. The c…
POLICING
Strunk v. Martin

1:10-cv-00023 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2010

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2018

This is a case alleging infringement of two individuals' Fourth Amendment rights when they were arrested without warrants and not brought before a judge within 48 hours. On January 21, 2010, two individuals who were arrested and booked into LaGrange County Jail filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued the LaGrange County Sheriff under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought compensatory and d…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…