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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
K.P. v. LeBlanc

3:07-cv-00879 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2007

Closed Date: Oct. 8, 2013

This case challenged a Louisiana law that subjected abortion providers to strict liability for harm to a patient that occurred during an abortion procedure, in contravention of the state’s general medical malpractice laws. On November 16, 2007, the plaintiffs—a healthcare facility that provided abortion care and two physicians who provided abortion care at the healthcare facility—sued the executive director and other members of the Louisiana Patients’ Compensation Fund Oversight Board in their …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bownes v. Washington

2:14-cv-11691 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 28, 2014

Case Ongoing

An incarcerated individual in the custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), filed this lawsuit on March 28, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals against the Director of the MDOC and the general dentist of the MDOC (in their official capacities). MDOC policy detailed that a person became eligible for routine dental care only after being incarcerated for two years. The plaintiff alleged that t…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roppolo v. Linthicum

2:19-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 11, 2017, individuals with Hepatitis C detained by the state of Texas brought this suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its medical providers: Correctional Managed Healthcare Committee and the University of Texas Medical Branch. Hepatitis C, if left untreated, causes severe damage to a person’s liver. Yet Texas jails refused to provide Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) medications, which the plaintiffs alleged was the treatment needed to comply with the Eigh…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Brionez v. United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA")

4:01-cv-03969 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2001

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2007

This is a case about discriminatory hiring practices in Region 5 of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). On October 22, 2001, the Regional Hispanic Working Group (represented by a group of individual members) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the USDA under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e). Represented by the Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
La Unión Del Pueblo Entero v. Trump

8:19-cv-02710 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2019

Closed Date: April 2, 2021

This case challenged President Trump’s Executive Order 13880 directing the Census Bureau to collect citizenship data from administrative records and distribute that data to states in connection with the 2020 decennial census for redistricting. La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), a nonprofit committed to community organizing and civic engagement in the Texas Rio Grande Valley and Promise Arizona (PAZ), a faith-based nonprofit working to build Latino and immigrant political power, and two resident…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Fraihat v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

5:19-cv-01546 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a preexisting class action addressing conditions of confinement in ICE custody, particularly for noncitizen detainees with medical or mental health needs, or other disabilities. On March 24, 2020, plaintiffs sought an emergency order addressing the COVID-19 infection risks of detainees with special risk factors, or releasing them. On April 20, 2020, the court granted the plaintiffs' motions for certification of subclass and preliminary injunction. The defendants appea…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
International Refugee Assistance Project (“IRAP”) v. Trump

8:17-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2020

On February 7, 2017, five immigrant advocacy organizations and fifteen individual immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (in Greenbelt). Represented by the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center, the plaintiffs challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, executive order (EO). The order restricted admission to the U.S. for nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries and suspended the U.S. refugee program. The plaintiffs allege…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Yourke v. City & County of San Francisco

3:03-cv-03105 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 2, 2003

Closed Date: May 25, 2012

On July 2, 2003, an individual action was filed against the City and County of San Francisco pro se by an individual who was allegedly falsely arrested and subjected to a strip search after being transported to the county jail under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The case was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and, after being reassigned twice, was presided over by Judge Charles Breyer. The plaintiff claimed that the false arrest and strip search were in violation of…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Steward v. Perry

5:10-cv-01025 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2010

Case Ongoing

Adults with developmental disabilities who were institutionalized filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas alleging that they, along with the class of similarly situated individuals, were institutionalized unnecessarily as a result of the policies of the State of Texas. There are also two organizational Plaintiffs: the Arc of Texas and the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities. The Plaintiffs alleged that Texas failed to provide adequate habilitation and…
POLICING
Perez v. City of Chicago

1:13-cv-04531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 20, 2013

Case Ongoing

On June 20, 2013, a man who had been arrested and detained in Chicago’s Homan Square detention center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued the City of Chicago and Chicago police officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by a private firm, the plaintiff asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages. The plaintiff claimed that the City of Chicago and the individual police officers violated his Fourth and Fourteenth Amen…