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PRISON CONDITIONS
Witke v. Crowl

3:82-cv-03078 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 1982

Closed Date: 1997

On September 9, 1982, female inmates at the North Idaho Correctional Institution (NICI) in Cottonwood, Idaho, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Idaho Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project and Idaho Legal Aid Services, alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by gender discrimination in the areas of work-release, stud…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Tinsley v. Pierce

4:89-cv-00023 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 1989

On January 17, 1989, residents of T.B. Watkins Homes, a public housing development operated by the Housing Authority of Kansas City, Missouri, filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the State of Missouri in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by racial discri…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City and County of San Francisco v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

4:19-cv-04717 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. District court judges from across the countries granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the public char…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of California v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

4:19-cv-04975 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. In the fall of 2019, district court judges from across the countries granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from impleme…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Waid v. Snyder (In re Flint Water Cases)

5:16-cv-10444 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2016

Case Ongoing

This entry describes the consolidated federal class action lawsuits arising out of the Flint water crisis. Background Flint, Michigan historically purchased safe drinking water from Detroit. But in 2014, Flint began to draw water from the Flint River. The Flint River's water was corrosive, but Flint did not properly treat it. The water corroded pipes, causing lead and other toxic substances to leach into Flint's water supply. As a result, many Flint residents were exposed to contaminated water …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gallagher v. N.Y. State Board of Elections

1:20-cv-05504 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 17, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2021

This is a case about mail-in voting in the 2020 primary and general elections in New York. On May 1, 2020, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order that meant to expand access to mail-in voting by eliminating the need for voters to pay postage for mailed ballots. Instead, the addressee (the voter’s local board of elections) would pay for postage on receipt. The order, however, created a legal “snafu” — New York election law requires absentee ballots to be received or postmarked by e…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Irish 4 Reproductive Health v. United States Department of Health and Human Services

3:18-cv-00491 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

The suit challenged a settlement agreement between the Trump Administration and the University of Notre Dame to deny students, employees, and their dependents insurance coverage of contraceptive care guaranteed to them by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The lawsuit also challenged the Trump administration’s interim final rules announced in October 2017 that would have allowed virtually any employer or university to refuse to comply with the ACA contraceptive coverage requirement. On June 26, 201…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
T.R. v. Dreyfus

2:09-cv-01677 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Nov. 24, 2009

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2021

On November 24, 2009, Medicaid-eligible children with psychiatric and behavioral disorders living in Washington filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Represented by Disability Rights Washington, the National Health Law Program, the National Center for Youth Law, and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services under the Medicaid Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to addres…
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…