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JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans Jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…

Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Stein v. Cortes

2:16-cv-06287 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2016

Closed Date: April 29, 2020

On December 5, 2016, plaintiffs, who consisted of the Green Party presidential candidate and a Pennsylvania voter that had voted in the 2016 presidential election (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”), filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation of Pennsylvania (collectively, the “Defendants”).  Both Defendants worked for the Pennsylvania Department of St…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PRISON CONDITIONS
Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

3:19-cv-00233 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2024

This is a case about access to the Federal Register in prison. The plaintiff, who was incarcerated in federal prison, filed this lawsuit on February 22, 2019, against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Though the plaintiff's initial complaint was about an unrelated issue, in a subsequent amended complaint (filed January 10, 2020) the plaintiff brought a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act against the US Attorney Gener…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hampton v. State of California

3:21-cv-03058 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 27, 2021

This is a case about conditions at San Quentin State Prison during the Covid-19 pandemic. On April 27, 2021, the spouse of a person who had died while incarcerated at San Quentin filed this wrongful death suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of herself and as successor in interest for the deceased, against the State of California, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”), San Quentin State Prison, and named and unnamed indiv…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. City of St. Louis

4:21-cv-00600 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 24, 2021

This case involves allegations of excessive force and conditions of confinement amounting to punishment, experienced by four pre-trial detainees. The original complaint was filed on May 24, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri by three pre-trial detainees at City Justice Center (“CJC”). (A final amended complaint, naming all four plaintiffs, was filed on June 10, 2022.) All plaintiffs were detained at the CJC. The defendants in this lawsuit included the City of …

Case Is Ongoing

Appeal Pending

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education of the City of New York

1:01-cv-08598 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 2001

Closed Date: June 2, 2011

Plaintiff was an evangelical Christian church founded in 1971 and located in the Bronx, New York. The legal battle between Plaintiff and the New York Board of Education (the "Board") started from 1994, when Plaintiff applied to use space in one middle school in the Bronx, New York, for its Sunday morning church services. According to Plaintiff's application, its services would include "singing of Christian hymns and songs, prayer, fellowship with other church members and Biblical preaching and …
PRISON CONDITIONS
(PC) Watson v. Sisto

2:07-cv-01871 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2007

Closed Date: March 9, 2012

On August 28, 2007, plaintiff, initially proceeding pro se, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. On September 10, 2007, this case was transferred to the Eastern District of California. This case is presided over by Judge Lawrence K. Karlton.   Plaintiff alleged that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs, claiming violation of his First and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiff sought compensatory damages, punitive damages, cost…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
U.S. v. State of California

2:18-cv-00490 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: March 6, 2018

Closed Date: April 6, 2021

This case challenged California's "sanctuary city" state laws. The United States federal government filed this suit on March 6, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The case was assigned to Judge John A. Mendez and Magistrate Kendall J. Newman. This lawsuit comes after a series of lawsuits filed by California jurisdictions challenging the federal government's sanctuary city policies, which deny federal funding to jurisdictions that impede the federal governmen…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

CHILD WELFARE
Bryan C v. Lambrew

1:21-cv-00005 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2024

This is a class action lawsuit about the administration of psychotropic drugs in Maine foster care.  On January 6, 2021, the plaintiffs, four foster children in the custody of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), filed suit through their next friend in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine against the Commissioner of the Maine DHHS and the Director of the Maine Office of Child and Family Services. The complaint set forth that Maine’s Department of Health and Human S…

Case Is Ongoing

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States v. Denka Performance Elastomer, LLC

2:23-00735 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2023

Closed Date: March 7, 2025

This case challenges the carcinogenic chloroprene emissions from Denka Performance Elastomer, LLC’s (Denka’s) neoprene manufacturing facility at the Pontchartrain Works Site in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, as being unacceptably high under EPA regulations. Denka's facility produced neoprene, a synthetic rubber, emitting chloroprene—a chemical classified by the EPA in 2010 as likely carcinogenic to humans. Air monitoring near the facility reportedly detected chloroprene concentrations …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)