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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

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 s…

Case Is Ongoing

POLICING
Anti Police-Terror Project v. Oakland

3:20-cv-03866 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 11, 2020

This class action lawsuit was filed on June 11, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs were the Anti-Police Terror Project, Community Ready Corps, and several individuals. Defendants were the City of Oakland, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) Police Chief, an OPD Sergeant, and two OPD officers. The suit followed police actions to quell protests that arose after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Plaintiffs were represented counsel f…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

4:24-cv-00213 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 7, 2024

Closed Date: April 15, 2025

On March 7, 2024, six business organizations including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Bankers Association filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The plaintiffs challenged a new rule issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) known as the Credit Card Penalty Fees Rule, which amended Regulation Z under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (CARD). According to the plaint…

Settled: Case Closed

Appeal Dismissed

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Horton v. Rangos

2:22-cv-01391 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2022

This is a case about probation detainers that were allegedly used to detain a purported class of individuals in Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) for many months, or even years, without lawful justification and with almost no meaningful opportunity to obtain release. Probation detainers are orders preventing the release of individuals from jail when those individuals are on probation at the time of their arrest. On October 2, 2022, six individuals detained at ACJ filed a putative class action lawsuit…

Case Is Ongoing

Pending in Supreme Court

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
American Association of University Professors v. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-02429 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

This case challenges the Trump Administration’s punitive measures against Columbia University for its asserted failure to address antisemitism on campus, including the cancellation of $400 million in federal research funding and demands for sweeping programmatic and structural changes.  On March 25, 2025, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), two labor organizations for teachers and professors, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. Dist…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Pending

JAIL CONDITIONS
Colon v. Passaic County

2:08-cv-04439 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2008

Closed Date: Oct. 24, 2018

On September 3, 2008, inmates at the Passaic County Jail (PCJ) filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Passaic County, Passaic County Jail and its various officers, and the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC), under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from ACLU - New Jersey, Seton Hall University School of Law's Center for Social Justice, and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctiv…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Ozturk v. Hyde

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

Filed Date: March 25, 2025

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 re…

Habeas Relief Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New York v. Trump

1:17-cv-05228 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2017

Sixteen states, led by the State of New York, filed this lawsuit against the federal government on September 6, 2017, in response to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memorandum issued on September 5, ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The states argued that ending DACA violated due process and equal protection rights, and also violated the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Regulatory Flexibility Act. The states sought to enjoin the federal government fr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Council v. Ivey

2:23-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

This case is about alleged systematic over-detention of people incarcerated by the Alabama Department of Corrections for the purpose of profiting from the practice of “convict leasing.”   On December 12, 2024, ten former and current incarcerated persons, along with three service-worker unions, brought this putative class action lawsuit against a number of Alabama officials and private businesses in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Named defendants in the laws…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Democratic Executive Committee of Florida v. Detzner

4:18-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 2018

Closed Date: July 29, 2019

This case, which arose in the context of Florida’s closely contested 2018 U.S. Senate election, challenged Florida’s signature-matching requirements for vote-by-mail and provisional ballots as disenfranchising Florida voters, including a disproportionate number of young and first-time voters and racial and ethnic minorities.  On November 8, 2018, Plaintiffs, the Democratic Executive Committee of Florida (DECF) (a statewide organization representing Democratic candidates and voters) and the poli…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Dismissed