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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Arizona Incorporated v. Brnovich

2:15-cv-01022 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 4, 2015

Closed Date: May 8, 2020

This is a case about abortion providers and physicians challenging the constitutionality of a provision within Arizona's S.B. 1318 (the “Act”). On June 4, 2015, Planned Parenthood of Arizona, alongside a private physician practice and two board-certified obstetricians and gynecologists, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, seeking a declaratory judgment and preliminary injunctive relief on behalf of themselves and their patients. The plaintiffs sue…
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…
POLICING
Index Newspapers LLC v. City of Portland

3:20-cv-01035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit was filed on June 28, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The case was brought by members of the media and legal observers against the City of Portland and sixty unnamed Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers amidst the protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd. Plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU Foundation of Oregon. The complaint alleged that PPB had a pattern of targeting and retaliating against journalists and neutral obs…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Fang v. Saldana

2:17-cv-02092 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 30, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case brought by noncitizen students facing immigration enforcement about the fallout from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting operation. The noncitizens had entered the U.S. on student visas, and had enrolled in the University of Northern New Jersey (UNNJ) to maintain their student visa status after graduating from other U.S. universities and beginning work. As it turned out, in April 2016 ICE revealed that the UNNJ was a fake university it created to investigate and pros…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Wilson

3:21-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2021

Case Ongoing

Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic (PPSA), Greenville Women’s Clinic (GWC), and an individual abortion provider on behalf of himself and his patients brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge the constitutionality of the South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat Protection from Abortion Act (hereinafter “SB 1” or “the Act”), which banned abortion after the detection of fetal or embryonic cardiac activity. This moment can occur as early as approximately six weeks of pregnancy, …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey

1:11-cv-00486 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: June 13, 2011

Closed Date: Feb. 6, 2012

This is a case challenging Texas abortion restrictions requiring physicians to show patients seeking abortions their sonogram images and play the sound of the fetal heartbeat as part of the informed-consent process. On June 13, 2011, a group of Texas abortion providers filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, sued the Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Servic…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Barfield v. Cook

3:18-cv-01198 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, persons in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Correction suffering from the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Department on July 19, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea was assigned. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought to represent a class of all people who are or will be prisoners in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Corrections, and who…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
R.J. v. Bishop

1:12-cv-07289 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2012

Case Ongoing

On September 12, 2012, youth confined in facilities operated by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court against the IDJJ. The plaintiffs, represented by counsel from the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that systemic IDJJ conditions, services, and treatment violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Th…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
New York Immigration Coalition v. U.S. Department of Commerce

1:18-cv-05025 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 26, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

On March 26, 2018, the Secretary of Commerce ordered that the 2020 Census add a question about citizenship for the first time since 1950. On June 6, 2018, the New York Immigration Coalition, Casa, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the ADC Research Institute, and Make the Road New York—all advocacy and non-profit organizations—filed this action against the Department of Commerce and Bureau of Census in response. Represented by private counsel, the New York Civil Liberties Union, a…