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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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Riggleman v. Clarke

5:17-cv-00063 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 26, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 27, 2017, an prisoner in the custody of the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, against VDOC's Director and its Chief Medical Director in their official and personal capacities. Plaintiff, who had Hepatitis C, claimed that VDOC knowingly refused him medical care for his disease and this refusal violated the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause and the state constitution. Plaint…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McBride v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-11222 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2015

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2015, three prisoner-plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), alleging that MDOC was discriminating against them and other deaf and hard of hearing prisoners. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and was assigned to Judge Sean Cox. The plaintiffs were represented by Michigan Protection and Advocacy, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and private counsel. The plaintiffs al…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
POLICING
Index Newspapers LLC v. City of Portland

3:20-cv-01035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit was filed on June 28, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The case was brought by members of the media and legal observers against the City of Portland and sixty unnamed Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers amidst the protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd. Plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU Foundation of Oregon. The complaint alleged that PPB had a pattern of targeting and retaliating against journalists and neutral obs…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Maney v. Brown

6:20-cv-00570 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 6, 2020

Case Ongoing

On April 6, 2020, prisoners in the Oregon Department of Corrections ("ODOC") filed this lawsuit against the governor of Oregon and several Oregon DOC officials in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Represented by private counsel, the Oregon Innocence Center, and the Oregon Justice Resource Center, the plaintiffs sought injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their Eighth Amendment rights, as well as violations of the Oregon Constitution. Specifically, t…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ackerman v. Washington

4:13-cv-14137 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2013

Case Ongoing

This case concerns a Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) policy enacted in 2013 that replaced all previously offered religious diets with a vegan one. On September 27, 2013, three Orthodox Jewish men who were incarcerated at Central Michigan Correctional Facility filed this lawsuit pro se against MDOC’s Director, Special Activities Coordinator, and Food Service Director in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They sought declaratory and inju…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
New York Immigration Coalition v. U.S. Department of Commerce

1:18-cv-05025 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 26, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

On March 26, 2018, the Secretary of Commerce ordered that the 2020 Census add a question about citizenship for the first time since 1950. On June 6, 2018, the New York Immigration Coalition, Casa, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the ADC Research Institute, and Make the Road New York—all advocacy and non-profit organizations—filed this action against the Department of Commerce and Bureau of Census in response. Represented by private counsel, the New York Civil Liberties Union, a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) v. Trump

2:17-cv-10310 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2017

Closed Date: March 11, 2021

On January 31, 2017, the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACLR) and seven of its individual members filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (in Detroit). The plaintiffs sued President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection under the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 U.S.C. §2201), the Administrative Procedures Act (5 U.S.C. §5), and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. They claimed that President Trump’s execu…