Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:
45 cases, 47 documents
Ordered by
EDUCATION
Eccleston v. Pine Bush Central School District

7:12-cv-02303 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 28, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 28th, 2012, five former and current Jewish students filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the Pine Bush School District. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for declarative judgment, injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the school district had responded with deliberate indifference to the rampant anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment directed at the plainti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bennett v. Spectrum Healthcare

1:02-cv-04993 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Oct. 16, 2002

Closed Date: 2010

On October 16, 2002, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, private counsel representing a group of New Jersey state prisoners filed a lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against contract medical care providers, their executives, and New Jersey corrections officials. In that complaint and a later, amended version, the prisoners alleged that they and their class had been exposed in the state's prisons to the Hepatitis C virus (HCV), or had been admitted to the prisons but no…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
United States v. Bahr

2:08-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 17, 2008

Closed Date: 2011

On July 17, 2008, the United State filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District Court of Alabama under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. §§3601-3619, against Defendants, rental property owners and their property manager. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged the Defendants discriminated in their rental business against women. Specifically, DOJ claimed that beginning in 2005 or earlier, the defendants' property manager subjected actual and prospective female tenant…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Geissler v. Stirling

4:17-cv-01746 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 30, 2017

Closed Date: April 22, 2022

An individual with Hepatitis C who was incarcerated at the South Carolina Department of Corrections brought this pro se lawsuit on June 30, 2017. The plaintiff challenged the Department's testing and treatment protocols for Hepatitis C, alleging that the Department’s policies and practices fell below the constitutional standard of care. The Department’s conduct allegedly violated the Eighth Amendment and the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiff sou…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Malam v. Adducci

5:20-cv-10829 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: In this case filed March 30, 2020, by a particularly vulnerable immigration detainee, the Court granted release on April 5, holding that ongoing detention was unlawfully punitive given the grave threat posed by detention during the coronavirus pandemic. Additional detainees intervened, and the Court has granted additional releases and has converted the TROs ordering releases into preliminary injunctions. The Court certified a class, instituted procedures for bail applications …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Stafford v. Carter

1:17-cv-00289 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

This class action suit challenged the medical care provided to Indiana prisoners with the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). On January 27, 2017, three prisoners with HCV at Pendleton Correctional Facility filed this class-action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson was assigned. Plaintiffs were represented by private counsel and a professor from the Indiana University School of Law. Defendants included the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network v. Taylor

4:12-cv-00154 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2018

On July 27, 2012, the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation, and the Waterkeeper Alliance filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The plaintiffs alleged that the Taylor Finishing Company, a swine concentrated animal feeding operation, illegally polluted under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and that this pollution endangered human health and the en…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
NAACP v. Bureau of the Census

8:18-cv-00891 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 28, 2018

Closed Date: April 16, 2020

On March 28, 2018 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Prince George’s County, Maryland filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the U.S. Census Bureau, the Secretary of Commerce, and the President of the United States for “conspicuous neglect” of their duty to ensure the “actual enumeration” required by Article I of the U.S. Constitution. The case was assigned to Judge Paul W. Grimm.The plaintiffs cla…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Garza v. Hargan

1:17-cv-02122 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

On October 13, 2017, a 17-year-old pregnant, unaccompanied immigrant in immigration custody filed this suit against the Acting Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration for Children and Families (ACF), and the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) for interference with her right to abortion. Filing via a guardian and represented by the National, District of Columbia, and California offices of the American Civil L…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Regents of University of California v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

3:17-cv-05211 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

On June 18, 2020, the Supreme Court upheld the 9th Circuit's decision in this case that the Trump Administration acted unlawfully when it rescinded DACA, because its reasons for rescission were insufficient. The Regents of the University of California (UC) and Janet Napolitano, in her official capacity as President of the University of California, filed this lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) revocation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). T…