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PRISON CONDITIONS
Human Rights Defense Center v. Inch

9:21-cv-81391 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 2021

Closed Date: March 31, 2023

The Human Rights Defense Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting human rights in U.S. detention facilities, filed this lawsuit on August 10, 2021. The plaintiff filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Florida Department of Corrections (Department of Corrections) and the warden of the Everglades Correctional Institution (Everglades). The presiding judge was Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks. The plaintiff alleged that Departmen…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration

2:22-cv-00223 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2022

Case Ongoing

On November 18, 2022, four national medical associations and four doctors with alleged experience in caring for pregnant and post-abortive patients sued the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA), seeking to overturn the agency’s decades-old authorization of mifepristone, a pill that induces abortions. Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom and a private law firm, Plaintiffs brought suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Plaintiffs brought suit u…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and the Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, m…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Family Planning Association of Maine v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:19-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 6, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

This is a case about the Trump Administration's Compliance with Statutory Program Integrity Requirements, 84 Fed. Reg. 7,714 (the “Rule”), published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) on March 4, 2019, and its deleterious effect on Maine reproductive health care organizations. Maine Family Planning was the largest reproductive health care organization in the state and its sole Title X family planning program grantee. Since the middle of the twenty-first century…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC) or the Erie County Correctional Facili…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Dream Defenders v. DeSantis

4:21-cv-00191 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 11, 2021

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 2021, the NAACP, ACLU of Florida, and Community Justice Project filed suit against Governor Ron DeSantis, the Attorney General of the State of Florida, the Sheriff of Leon County, the Sheriff of Jacksonville/Duval County, and the Sheriff of Broward County in the U.S. District Court of Florida to challenge a state law designed to chill First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly following demonstrations against police violence in the summer of 2020. The Florida-enacted law, the…
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…
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…
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 …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
In re Descendants of African Slavery

01491 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2002

Closed Date: April 7, 2011

In this action, plaintiffs who were formerly enslaved African-Americans or descendants of formerly enslaved African-Americans sued various corporate defendants for unjustly profiting off of the institution of slavery before, during, and after the Civil War. Beginning in 2002, plaintiffs filed three actions in the Eastern District of New York and one action in the the District of New Jersey. On October, 25, 2002, a panel of judges ordered these four cases, along with five pending tag-along actio…