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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Unified School Dist 259 v. Kansas Advocacy & Protective Services

6:04-cv-01279 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2006

This is a case about a protection and advocacy agency’s (P&A) records access authority. On August 24, 2004, Unified School District No. 259 (District) filed this lawsuit against Disability Rights Center of Kansas (DRC), Kansas’s P&A in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The District sought declaratory relief that the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act (PAIMI Act), Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), and Protection …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Smith v. Edwards

3:22-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

Louisiana officials announced that they would incarcerate about two dozen children in the former death row of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly referred to as Angola) after Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick signed off on the transfer. On August 19, 2022, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Governor John Bel Edwards, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Juvenile Justice William Sommers, and Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections James M. …
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD …
POLICING
Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Department

1:20-cv-00929 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

On April 1, 2020, the Baltimore Board of Estimates approved a contract between the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) and Persistent Surveillance Systems, LLC (PSS) for an “Aerial Investigation Research” (AIR) pilot program in Baltimore, Maryland. The pilot program was to take place for six months, during which PSS would fly planes over the city for approximately twelve hours per day. While in flight, the planes would use advanced wide-angle camera systems to collect images of the city that woul…
CHILD WELFARE
M.D. v. Abbott

2:11-cv-00084 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2011

Case Ongoing

This class action (previously, M.D. v. Perry) involving long-term foster care in Texas was filed on March 29, 2011, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff class of children in long-term foster care was represented by private counsel and Children's Rights, Inc.; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state failed to protect foster children from systemic harm. The complaint alleged that defendants' frequent moves of the foster care c…
POLICING
United States v. City of Ferguson

4:16-cv-00180 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a majority-Black city in the St. Louis metro area. The shooting sparked nationwide protests and attention to police use of force and police relations Black residents. The Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, brought the case in front of a grand jury to determine whether there was probable cause to indict Wilson for his actions. But on Novem…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind of Metropolitan Chicago v. Chicago

1:19-cv-06322 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit alleged that the City of Chicago’s failure to equip signalized street intersections with accessible pedestrian signals (ASPs) constituted illegal discrimination against Chicago’s blind residents and visitors. ASPs are used by blind pedestrians to travel safely at intersections. In municipalities which have installed ASPs, blind pedestrians can receive information and warnings about oncoming traffic by listening to the sounds played by the signal (e.g. “Walk sign is on”…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
West Virginia v. Department of Homeland Security

2:21-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2021

Case Ongoing

In this case, the state of West Virginia challenged the Biden administration's attempt to repeal the Migrant Protections Protocol (MPP) policy, which required asylum applicants to return to Mexico while their claims were being processed instead of being held in detention or paroled in the United States. West Virginia sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on August 19, 2021, alleging that its termination of the “Remain in Mex…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of Providence v. Sessions

1:18-cv-00437 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2018

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2018, two Rhode Island cities filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, challenging the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) policy of conditioning federal funding on compliance with immigration-related conditions. The cities argued that the new conditions forced them to make an impossible choice: accept unlawful conditions that undermined their ability to protect their communities or forfeit funding crucial to protecting their communities. Accor…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of Illinois v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02112 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 8, 2021

This case was about Illinois election law (candidate nomination and signature gathering procedures) during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 election. The Libertarian Party of Illinois, the Green Party of Illinois, and several independent candidates filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on April 2, 2020. Defendants were various members of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Plaintiffs challenged signature-gathering requirements for ballot qualification duri…