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PRISON CONDITIONS
Rogers v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:16-cv-02733 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2016

Case Ongoing

On November 3, 2016, a woman incarcerated in the custody of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued the State of Colorado, the Colorado Department of Corrections, and the Warden of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking damages. She claimed that defendants violated the ADA as well as her constitutional rights to du…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
CHILD WELFARE
Jonathan R. v. Justice

3:19-cv-00710 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the administration of child welfare.  On September 30, 2019, twelve named plaintiffs, all children in the custody of West Virginia's Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), brought a class action complaint against the Governor of West Virginia Jim Justice, as well as the Cabinet Secretary for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Deputy Secretary for the West Virginia DHHS, and the Commissioner for Bureau of Children and Families (BC…
CHILD WELFARE
M.D. v. Abbott

2:11-cv-00084 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2011

Case Ongoing

This class action (previously, M.D. v. Perry) involving long-term foster care in Texas was filed on March 29, 2011, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff class of children in long-term foster care was represented by private counsel and Children's Rights, Inc.; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state failed to protect foster children from systemic harm. The complaint alleged that defendants' frequent moves of the foster care c…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Barnett v. Tony

0:20-cv-61113 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 5, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a class-action lawsuit about the sufficiency of COVID-19 safety protocols at Broward County Jails, administered by the Broward Sheriff's Office (BSO). On June 5, 2020, thirteen named plaintiffs and a local NGO, Disability Rights Florida, represented by the ACLU, filed the case seeking a writ of habeas corpus and injunctive and declaratory relief. Plaintiffs alleged that the BSO knowingly failed to adopt and implement adequate policies and procedures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. T…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.V.M. v. Lloyd

1:18-cv-01453 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 16, 2018, a minor child detained by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff sued ORR under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Declaratory Judgement Act, and petitioned for writs of habeas corpus and mandamus. The plaintiff, an immigrant represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, alleged th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Minnis v. Johnson

1:10-cv-00096 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2010

Closed Date: March 30, 2016

On January 29, 2010, prisoners in the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) who were deaf or hard of hearing filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, and Virginia state law against Virginia state agencies, departments, and employees thereof. The plaintiffs, represented by the Washington Lawyers Committee a…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Scott v. City and County of Denver

1:12-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2012

Closed Date: 2014

On January 10, 2012, a deaf individual who had been arrested and detained on a number of occasions since 2007 for violating his probation in Denver, CO, filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against the City and County of Denver. He proceeded under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act; represented by attorneys from the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center and the Center for Rights of Pare…
EDUCATION
Foltz v. Delaware State University

1:10-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2010

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit about equitable athletic opportunities for female students. On February 23, 2010, a group of female student-athletes filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. The plaintiffs sued Delaware State University (DSU) under Title IX. Represented by the Women's Law Project and a commercial business law firm, the plaintiffs sought class action certification, declaratory judgment, a temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction, a f…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Aranda v. Lynaugh

4:89-cv-00277 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 1989

Closed Date: 2002

On January 19, 1989, Aranda and nearly one hundred fellow prisoners in the Texas prison system filed suit in U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), alleging civil rights violations. The plaintiffs, all of whom were male, contented that strip searches performed by female prison officials violated both their constitutional right to privacy and an existing consent decree (K.K. Coble and…