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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) in West Virginia, 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 housed both pre-trial and sentenced individuals. They sued the former commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitations (WVDOC), the former warden fo…
POLICING
Sierra v. City of New York

1:20-cv-10291 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2020

Case Ongoing

On December 7, 2020, four private individuals who attended racial justice protests in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the City of New York, the New York City Police Department (the NYPD), City officials, and police officers in their individual capacities. The plaintiffs brought this action on behalf of themselves and  a putative class under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to remedy violations of their First, Fourth, a…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Byrd v. Maricopa County Sheriff's Department

2:04-cv-02701 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 26, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2012

On November 26, 2004, the plaintiff brought this action pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, Phoenix Division. While the plaintiff had been a pretrial detainee in a minimum-security facility, Maricopa County jail officials ordered a search of his entire housing unit. The plaintiff alleged that during the search, a female training cadet conducted a partial strip search and pat down of his groin area despite the availability of male detention offic…
EDUCATION
Biediger v. Quinnipiac University

3:09-cv-00621 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 16, 2009

Case Ongoing

In March 2009, Quinnipiac University announced plans to cut its women's volleyball team, men's golf team, and men's outdoor track team. At the same time, the University pledged to create a new varsity sport, competitive cheerleading, for the 2009-10 season. In response, five current Quinnipiac women's varsity volleyball players and their coach filed this putative class action lawsuit against Quinnipiac in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on April 16, 2009. They were repre…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Patino v. City of Pasadena

4:14-cv-03241 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2014

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

This is a case about voter dilution and preclearance of voting rights changes.  On November 12, 2014, registered Hispanic voters of the City of Pasadena, Texas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Plaintiffs sued the City of Pasadena, the Mayor, and members of the Pasadena City Council under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U.S.C. § 10301 (formerly 42 U.SC. § 1973). Specifically, Plaintiffs claimed that the City altered its gove…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.V.M. v. Lloyd

1:18-cv-01453 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 16, 2018, a minor child detained by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff sued ORR under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Declaratory Judgement Act, and petitioned for writs of habeas corpus and mandamus. The plaintiff, an immigrant represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, alleged th…
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND 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…