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PRISON CONDITIONS
Chatman v. Otani

1:21-cv-00268 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: June 9, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2021

This class action lawsuit, brought in 2021 by persons incarcerated or detained in Hawai'i correctional facilities, alleged that the conditions in the state's jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic had contributed to multiple COVID-19 outbreaks and sought implementation of health and safety protocols. On June 8, 2021, this case was removed from Hawaii’s First Circuit Court to the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. On June 9, plaintiffs filed their first amended class action …
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Caliste v. Cantrell

2:17-cv-06197 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 27, 2017, pre-trial detainees at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s office filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the magistrate judge of the Criminal District Court alleging unlawful bail setting practices. Plaintiffs claimed that defendant violated the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause by keeping them in jail post-arrest when they could not afford the bail set by defendant. Plaintiffs…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Kenny v. Wilson

2:16-cv-02794 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 11, 2016, the non-profit, Girls Rock, and four students of South Carolina public schools, filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of South Carolina and the heads of twelve South Carolina Police Departments under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the court for a declaratory judgement that two South Carolina codes, commonly referred to as the "Disturbin…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas

1:21-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about immigration policy that restricted refugee and asylee entry into the United States on account of health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic. On January 12, 2021, families of asylum- and refugee-seekers, who were detained by the Department of Homeland Security, sued the U.S. federal government for humanitarian protection in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. With the spread of coronavirus, on March 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc.

2:10-cv-04334 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2010

Case Ongoing

This was one of the LGBT discrimination cases consolidated before the Supreme Court in 2020 when it held that "[a]n employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964]."District CourtThis case addresses the scope of the ban on sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and asks if employers are barred from discriminating against employees on the basis of their sexual orientation under the statute. A gay …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Texas League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) v. Whitley

5:19-cv-00074 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 29, 2019

Case Ongoing

On January 29, 2019, the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens (Texas LULAC) and National League of United Latin American Citizens filed this lawsuit in United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Texas Secretary of State and the Attorney General of Texas, under section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act. The plaintiffs, represented by their General Counsel, Campaign Legal Counsel and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Th…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
U.S. v. Georgia

1:10-cv-00249 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2010

Case Ongoing

In 2008 and 2009, the United States Department of Justice investigated Georgia’s seven state-operated psychiatric hospitals. The investigations found that the hospitals were violating patients’ constitutional and statutory rights in multiple ways, such as by: failing to adequately protect patients from harm; improperly utilizing seclusion and restraints; providing inadequate nursing and health care; failing to provide adequate services for populations with specialized needs; and failing to disc…