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:
57 cases, 59 documents
Ordered by
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rose v. Jividen

5:22-cv-00405 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 2022

Case Ongoing

On September 21, 2022, two men, one currently and one formerly incarcerated in Southern Regional Jail (SRJ), filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. They sought to represent a class of individuals imprisoned in SRJ facilities, which house both pre-trial individuals and those who have received their sentences. They sued the former commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitations (WVDOC), the form…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. Rizzitelli

3:10-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2010

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2015

On January 15, 2010, an individual plaintiff filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Derby Democratic Town Committee (DDTC) and several individuals. He claimed the defendants conspired to exclude him from fair competition for the Democratic nomination of Mayor of Derby on the basis of his race and alleged violations of the First, Ninth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), and 1986 as well as the § 2 of the Voting Rights Act…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Guerra v. West Los Angeles Community College

2:16-cv-06796 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 9, 2016, three students with mobility disabilities at West Los Angeles College (WLAC) filed suit under the Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and California state law against WLAC and the Los Angeles Community College District to require the college to provide transportation throughout campus as had been provided until February 2016.  The lawsuit was filed in federal court, Central District of California and assigned to District Judge Michael W. Fitzgeral…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction

1:17-cv-00151 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 6, 2017

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff in this case is a transgender, Native American woman. She was incarcerated at facilities run by the Idaho Department of Corrections. Despite multiple attempts at self-castration, the Idaho Department of Corrections and its employees had denied her medically necessary care, refused to transfer her, and failed to provide accommodations for her to express her gender identity. The defendants refused to provide the plaintiff with hormone treatment and gender confirmation surgery. Becau…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

1:17-cv-00690 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 20, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2021

This is a case about a 2017 Texas law that effectively banned the most commonly-performed second-trimester abortion procedure, standard dilation & evacuation (D&E), by requiring "fetal demise" before the evacuation portion of the procedure (the law, 2017 SB8, is not to be confused with 2021 SB8 which authorized private monetary penalties on providers of nearly all abortions performed after 6 weeks). On July 20, 2017, Whole Women's Health, Planned Parenthood, and other individual Texas healthcar…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
International Refugee Assistance Project (“IRAP”) v. Trump

8:17-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 31, 2020

On February 7, 2017, five immigrant advocacy organizations and fifteen individual immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (in Greenbelt). Represented by the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center, the plaintiffs challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, executive order (EO). The order restricted admission to the U.S. for nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries and suspended the U.S. refugee program. The plaintiffs allege…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Valentine v. Collier

4:20-cv-01115 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

Closed Date: April 19, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action lawsuit brought by prisoners at a geriatric prison run by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The plaintiffs alleged violations of their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as violations of the ADA and Rehabilitation Act by failing to make reasonable accommodations to protect the plaintiffs from COVID-19. They won a district court order requiring compliance with CDC recommendations, but the Fifth Circuit vacated the preliminary injuncti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McPherson v. Lamont

3:20-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This is a putative class action brought on April 20, 2020, by five detainees at the Connecticut Department of Correction, seeking release from detention or transfer to home confinement due to elevated health risks in light of the virus. The class was certified on June 12. On July 17, the parties entered into a settlement agreement which provided for a variety of specific mitigation measures to improve COVID-19-related sanitation, hygiene, testing, and medical monitoring at eve…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Communities Actively Living Independent and Free v. City of Los Angeles

2:09-cv-00287 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2009

Closed Date: Nov. 16, 2018

On January 14, 2009, disability rights advocacy organizations and individuals with disabilities in the Los Angeles Area filed a lawsuit on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the City and County of Los Angeles under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12213; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794; The California Disabled Persons Act, California Civil Code § 5…