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JAIL CONDITIONS
Cottone v. Jenne

0:00-cv-07545 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2000

Closed Date: July 20, 2006

Plaintiff, a personal representative for his son, sued numerous defendants associated with the Broward County Detention Center in Florida after his son, a pretrial detainee, died at the hands of a mentally ill co-inmate. The detention center was subject to a consent decree from Carruthers v. Cochran (JC-FL-008) that required the jail to institute a system of classification, separation, and monitoring of inmates. In 2002, the district court for the Southern District of Florida (Judge William J…
JAIL CONDITIONS
M.S. v. County of Ventura

2:16-cv-03084 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 4, 2016

On May 4, 2016, the plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Ventura, the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, the Ventura County Sheriff, and other county and state medical hospital administrators ("the defendants") under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as well as the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs asked the court for …
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

Case Ongoing

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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hudson v. Maloney

1:01-cv-12145 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2001

Case Ongoing

This action began with a pro se complaint filed in 2001 by prison inmates in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Correction (the "DOC"). The plaintiffs brought the action against the Commissioner of DOC and other DOC defendants under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Boston Division. The plaintiffs were Muslims and members of the Nation of Islam. They alleged that the defendants had interfered with their right to freely exercise their reli…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Dvash-Banks v. Tillerson [Dvash-Banks v. Pompeo]

2:18-cv-00523 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 2018

Case Ongoing

On January 22, 2018, a father and his minor son filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the U.S. Department of State (DOS) for not granting U.S. citizenship to the child plaintiff, because he was born outside of the U.S. to a same-sex dual-nationality couple. Represented by the nonprofit organization Immigration Equality and the private law firm Sullivan & Cromwell (who also represented the plaintiffs in a similar lawsuit filed the sa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Swain v. Junior

1:20-cv-21457 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 5, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: On April 4, 2020, individuals detained in Miami-Dade County jails filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeking habeas, injunctive, and declaratory relief. The court granted plaintiff’s motion for a TRO and preliminary injunction in part, and the defendants appealed to the Eleventh Circuit. On June 15, the Eleventh Circuit vacated the preliminary injunction. A jury trial was scheduled for March 1, 2021, but the case was…
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…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Muhtorov

1:12-cr-00033 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2012

Case Ongoing

Introduction & Importance of this Case In early 2012, the federal government initiated criminal prosecution of Jamshid Muhtorov (January 19) and Bakhityor Jumaev (March 14) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Both defendants were charged with providing, conspiring to provide, and attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, in violation of Title 18, U.S.C. § 2339B. Defendants were represented by the Federal Public Defender (Muhto…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Velez v. QVC, Inc.

2:00-cv-05582 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 2, 2000

Closed Date: 2006

On August 26, 1998, an African-American employee of the QVC, Inc. ("QVC"), a telemarketing television network, along with five other former show hosts, filed a lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et. seq., and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 against QVC in the United States District Court of the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for both monetary damages and injunctive relief, alleging discrimination based on both race …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of El Cenizo v. State of Texas

5:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

This suit challenged Texas's "Sanctuary City" legislation, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which required local Texas law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and punished them if they did not. Unlike the other suits in this special collection, this suit did not challenge President Trump's "Sanctuary City" Executive Order. At the time of this writing, there were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso C…