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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ozturk v. Hyde

2:25-cv-00374 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. On March 25, 2025, Turkish national and Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk was abruptly detained by masked plainclothes agents of the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. The federal government …
NATIONAL SECURITY
Twitter v. Barr [Holder]

4:14-cv-04480 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 2024

[Note: This case was previously known as Twitter v. Holder, then Twitter v. Lynch, then Twitter v. Sessions] On October 7, 2014, Twitter -- an online social networking service -- filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Administrative Procedure Act. Twitter, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, a…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
CODING IN PROCESS
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection v. Townstone Financial, Inc.

1:20-cv-04176 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On July 15, 2020, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection brought this lawsuit against Townstone Financial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The Bureau alleged that, from at least 2014 through 2017, the mortgage lender and broker engaged in unlawful redlining practices that discouraged prospective applicants, on the basis of race, from applying for credit. This case ultimately settled in Novemb…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Kuang v. United States Department of Defense

4:18-cv-03698 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 21, 2018

Closed Date: May 3, 2021

On June 21, 2018, plaintiffs—lawful permanent residents ("LPRs")—filed a class action complaint against the U.S. Department of Defense (“DOD”) in the Northern District of California. Represented by private counsel as well as the ACLU Foundations of Northern and Southern California, the plaintiffs alleged that a new DOD policy—promulgated via a memo on October 13—unfairly targeted LPRs and unlawfully prevented them from serving in the nation’s military. The DOD policy noted that LPRs could not b…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ruelas v. County of Alameda

4:19-cv-07637 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit concerns individuals incarcerated in Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, CA, who were allegedly forced to provide uncompensated labor for Aramark Correctional Services, LLC. When this suit was filed, Santa Rita Jail held individuals awaiting trial, individuals convicted of a crime awaiting sentencing, individuals in immigration detention, and individuals convicted of crimes serving county jail or state prison sentences. At the time of the lawsuit’s filing, Aramark Correctional Servi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Barr

4:19-cv-04073 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the ability of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue new guidelines on asylum application procedures and whether DHS is allowed to issue a rule that asylum seekers must first apply for asylum in another country before applying in the U.S. On July 16, 2019, four advocacy organizations — the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Al Otro Lado, Innovation Law Lab, and the Central American Resource Center — challenged a new asylum policy of the Trump administration narrow…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women v. Secretary of State

1:06-cv-21265 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 22, 2006

Closed Date: June 7, 2009

On May 22, 2006, the League of Women Voters of Florida, People Acting for Community Together (Pact), Florida AFL-CIO, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 79 (AFSCME), SEIU Florida Healthcare Union, as organizations and representatives of their members, the President of the Tallahassee League of Women Voters, and one hundred eligible voters who have not registered to vote, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Defen…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Day v. District of Columbia

1:10-cv-02250 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2010

Case Ongoing

The plaintiffs, institutionalized individuals in the District of Columbia with disabilities, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 23, 2010. The complaint alleged that the District of Columbia had policies and procedures that force the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities who could live in the community with appropriate services. The plaintiffs claimed that these policies, which erected barriers to receiving long-term care…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
K.C. v. The Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana

1:23-cv-00595 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 5, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case is about the constitutionality of the Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 480 (SEA 480, or the “Act”), which went into effect on July 1, 2023 and prohibits transgender minors from receiving gender transition procedures. Represented by the ACLU of Indiana, the plaintiffs included four minor children and their parents, a family medicine practice that provided care to transgender persons, and a physician who co-founded that medical practice. On April 5, 2023, they sued the individual members of …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Shelby Advocates for Valid Elections v. Hargett

2:18-cv-02706 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

This is a case alleging election mismanagement due to voting machine flaws in Memphis.  On October 12, 2018, the Shelby Advocates for Valid Elections (“SAVE”), a Tennessee non-profit corporation, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee alleging voting machine flaws. The complaint cited multiple software and hardware security issues resulting in inaccurate ballots, insecure memory cartridge management, and impossible vote audits. Plaintiff brought the c…