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POLICING
Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump

1:20-cv-01469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

Black Lives Matter - D.C. and several individual protestors brought this lawsuit on June 4, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of D.C. in response to President Trump's use of military police to disperse peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square Park on June 1, 2020. Protesters had gathered as part of the nationwide outcry following the police killing of George Floyd. Around 6:30 in the evening, following an order to clear the square from Attorney General Barr, military and federal …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas

1:21-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2021

Closed Date: May 11, 2023

This is a case about immigration policy that restricted refugee and asylum entry into the United States on account of health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic. On January 12, 2021, families of asylum- and refugee-seekers, who were detained by the Department of Homeland Security, sued the U.S. federal government for humanitarian protection in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. With the spread of coronavirus, on March 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Reynolds v. Arnone

3:13-cv-01465 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2013

Case Ongoing

On October 4, 2013, a death row inmate at the Connecticut Northern Correctional Institution (NCI) filed this lawsuit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiff sued the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Corrections and six other state officials in their official and individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief, including a release from 23 hour-p…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States of America v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.

2:21-CV-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

On February 5, 2021 an anonymous Plaintiff, “Relator Alex Doe,” brought this civil fraud action on behalf of the United States, Texas, and Louisiana against Defendants Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and other Planned Parenthood affiliates. Plaintiff sought to recover damages and civil penalties they alleged were owed to the United States, Texas, and Louisiana as a result of Planned Parenthood having presented “false or fraudulent claims for payment of approval under the Medicai…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
California v. Health and Human Services

4:17-cv-05783 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 4, 2017

Case Ongoing

On May 4, 2017, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to “restore religious freedom.” The order suggested that federal agencies amend regulations about the preventative care mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to increase the pool of employers allowed to claim an exemption from providing contraceptive coverage. The agencies then issued two Interim Final Rules (IFRs) expanding the scope of the religious and moral exemptions. Any employer or health insurer with religious or moral…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Huerta v. Ewing

2:16-cv-00397 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2016

Case Ongoing

On October 13, 2016, pretrial detainees in the Vigo County jail filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Indiana and private counsel, sued the sheriff and other officials of Vigo County under 42 U.S.C. §1983. They sought a declaratory judgment, preliminary and permanent injunction, and damages, claiming violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process clause and Fourteenth Amendment Eq…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Greater Birmingham Ministries v. State of Alabama

2:15-cv-02193 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 10, 2018

This case is about Alabama House Bill 19 ("HB 19"). HB 19 required voters to present photographic identification in order to vote, with exceptions that include if an election worker could "positively identify" a potential voter. While the bill passed in 2011, the law did not take effect until 2014. On December 2nd, 2015, the Alabama chapter of the NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the State of Alaba…
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…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Housing Rights Initiative v. Compass, Inc.

1:21-cv-02221 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about property owners and brokers in New York City who allegedly refused to rent residential property to holders of Housing Choice Vouchers (which subsidized housing for low-income families). On March 15, 2021, the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. HRI sued eighty eight property owners and brokers under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and city and state laws that barred source of income discrimination. Repr…