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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barrientos v. CoreCivic Inc.

4:18-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 17, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 17, 2018, three current or former detained immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, where the case was assigned to Judge Clay D. Land. The plaintiffs sued CoreCivic, Inc., a private prison corporation that owned and operated the Stewart Detention Center (“Stewart”), under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1589, 1594, and 1595. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center and pri…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Guertin v. State of Michigan

5:16-cv-12412 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 27, 2016

Case Ongoing

This case is one of many filed in response to the 2014 Flint water crisis, which occurred when Flint began to draw corrosive water from the Flint River to save money, exposing thousands to lead and other toxins. On June 27, 2016, a resident of Flint who drank and bathed in lead-contaminated water filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of herself and her minor child. (The complaint named, but did not describe, a second individual plaintiff wh…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:18-cv-00224 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 10, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 17, 2022

This is a case about abortion rights in Kentucky. On April 10, 2018, abortion providers filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. They sued Kentucky’s Attorney General, the interim secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Executive Director of the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, and the Attorney for the 30th Judicial Circuit of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the ACLU of Kentucky and the ACLU, the abortion provid…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee

3:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 27, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2020

This case challenged a series of 2001 Louisiana laws, including the Outpatient Abortion Facility Licensing Law (OAFLL), that attempted to shutter abortion clinics in the state by imposing more than 1,000 allegedly medically unnecessary requirements that applied only to abortion providers––including inspections of their facilities. On June 27, 2017, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana on behalf of June Medical Serv…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
South Camden Citizens in Action v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

1:01-cv-00702 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2001

Closed Date: March 31, 2006

This is a case about disparate impact in the permitting and building of environmentally hazardous facilities. The plaintiffs, the advocacy group South Camden Citizens in Action and 10 local residents, filed this suit against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. The case was assigned to Judge Stephen M. Orlofsky.  In their complaint, filed on February 13, 2001, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant h…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Family Planning Association of Maine v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:19-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 6, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

This is a case about the Trump Administration's Compliance with Statutory Program Integrity Requirements, 84 Fed. Reg. 7,714 (the “Rule”), published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) on March 4, 2019, and its deleterious effect on Maine reproductive health care organizations. Maine Family Planning was the largest reproductive health care organization in the state and its sole Title X family planning program grantee. Since the middle of the twenty-first century…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Stinnie v. Holcomb

3:16-cv-00044 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 6, 2016

Case Ongoing

On July 6, 2016, indigent Virginia residents brought this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia after suffering indefinite suspension of their driver's licenses pursuant to Virginia Code § 46.2-395 for failure to pay court costs and fines that they could not afford. The plaintiffs sued the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private attorneys, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive reli…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Franciscan Alliance, LLC v. Burwell

7:16-cv-00108 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 23, 2016, religiously-affiliated health organizations and five states (Texas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kentucky, and Kansas) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Secretary under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act claiming violations of these Acts, as well as their First, Fifth, Tenth, and Eleventh Amendment rights. The plaintiff…
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…