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EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina

1:14-cv-00954 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On Nov. 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the University of North Carolina (UNC). The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that UNC's current admissions policy discriminated against Asian A…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Gray v. County of Riverside

5:13-cv-00444 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2013

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class action about medical care in the Riverside County jails settled in 2015. On April 4, 2020, plaintiffs brought a motion to enforce the consent decree, seeking implementation of expert-endorsed coronavirus-related protocols including social distancing. On April 16, the Court agreed, requiring planning and potentially prisoner transfers. A formal COVID-19 plan was approved in July 2020 and revised in October 2020 and June 2022. On May 8, 2013, three prisoners in River…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Cook County, Illinois v. Wolf

1:19-cv-06334 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 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 country granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implement…
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
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation v. Department of Justice

3:19-cv-00290 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about transparency into government surveillance. The ACLU (the plaintiffs) sued various branches of the federal government (the defendants) including the Department of Justice, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security for failing to timely produce records related to social media surveillance. The ACLU filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on January 17, 2019. The case was assigned to Judge Edward M. Chen. On May 24, 2018, the ACLU submitted…
POLICING
Wolfe v. Portland

3:20-cv-01882 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations that local, state, and federal law enforcement failed to accommodate people with disabilities during public assemblies and protests. Four Portland, Oregon residents with disabilities, along with Disability Rights Oregon, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland) on November 1, 2020. Defendants included the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Director of the U.S. Marshals, the Superintendent of the Oregon Sta…
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…
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Albuquerque

1:14-cv-01025 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2014

Case Ongoing

On November 12, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the city of Albuquerque in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. The DOJ brought this action under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, alleging that officers of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) were engaging in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and § 14141. Specifically…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
California v. Ross

3:18-cv-01865 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 26, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

On March 26, 2018, the State of California filed this claim against the Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Census Bureau in the U.S. District Court of Northern California. It challenged the defendants' plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census. California alleged that this question will undermine the defendants' duty to collect an "actual enumeration" of the U.S. population mandated by the Enumeration Clause, Article I of the Constitution. In addition, California claims that t…