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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…
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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Waid v. Snyder (In re Flint Water Cases)

5:16-cv-10444 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2016

Case Ongoing

This entry describes the consolidated federal class action lawsuits arising out of the Flint water crisis. Background Flint, Michigan historically purchased safe drinking water from Detroit. But in 2014, Flint began to draw water from the Flint River. The Flint River's water was corrosive, but Flint did not properly treat it. The water corroded pipes, causing lead and other toxic substances to leach into Flint's water supply. As a result, many Flint residents were exposed to contaminated water …
POLICING
Western States Center v. Department of Homeland Security

3:20-cv-01175 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: July 21, 2020

Closed Date: March 15, 2022

This lawsuit, filed on July 21, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, was brought by the Western State Center (a public benefit corporation), the First Unitarian Church of Portland, a private individual, and two Oregon State Representatives. Represented by private attorneys, they sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Federal Protective Service, and the U.S. Marshal Service over the defendants' presence and role in quelling p…
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

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a Kentucky bill which effectively banned abortions for all women in Kentucky at or after 15 weeks of pregnancy. On April 10, 2018, abortion providers filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. The healthcare providers 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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
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 summary is temporary, while we research the case.)On March 3, 2019, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Maine, asking the court to enjoin a final order promulgated by the Trump Adminsitration.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
CODING IN PROCESS
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

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This is a case concerning allegations that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection granted permits to a cement facility that would have a racially discriminatory impact.
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pearson v. Hodgson

1:18-cv-11130 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 30, 2018

Case Ongoing

This case is about the price of phone calls made from Bristol County, Massachusetts correctional facilities, which a group of incarcerated individuals and their loved ones alleged were nearly doubled by an illegal kickback scheme orchestrated by the Bristol County Sheriff's Office (BCSO). On May 2, 2018, the plaintiffs filed a class-action suit in Massachusetts state court against the Bristol County Sheriff in his individual and official capacities, the BCSO, and Securus Technologies, the telec…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hawaii v. Trump

1:17-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

The below summary is a condensed version. The full summary can be found here on the Clearinghouse website. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin filed this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 against President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants, visitors, and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a concurrent complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. Distr…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
M.K.B. v. Eggleston

1:05-cv-10446 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2005

Closed Date: 2014

On December 13, 2005, a group of battered immigrant wives and children of lawful U.S. residents filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the denial of food stamps, Medicaid, and other public assistance benefits to certain categories of immigrants. The plaintiffs alleged that they applied for public benefits at New York City Job Centers, but were improperly denied those benefits in violation of state and federal law. …