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DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. One Boyertown Properties LP

5:20-cv-06249 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

Background This is a case about accessibility for people with disabilities in senior living communities. On December 11, 2020, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against fifteen companies who had designed, built, and/or owned fifteen buildings that housed independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The DOJ sued the defendants under the F…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Iglesias v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

3:19-CV-00415 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

In this case, a transgender person incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) sought gender-affirming health care and placement in a women's prison. The plaintiff, who was assigned male at birth, filed a pro se complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on April 12, 2019. The case was assigned to District Judge J. Phil Gilbert. In her complaint, she brought numerous legal claims against BOP officials centered around the agency's failure to provide her wi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Gray v. County of Riverside

5:13-cv-00444 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2013

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class action about medical care in the Riverside County jails settled in 2015. On April 4, 2020, plaintiffs brought a motion to enforce the consent decree, seeking implementation of expert-endorsed coronavirus-related protocols including social distancing. On April 16, the Court agreed, requiring planning and potentially prisoner transfers. A formal COVID-19 plan was approved in July 2020 and revised in October 2020 and June 2022. On May 8, 2013, three prisoners in River…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ashker v. Brown

4:09-cv-05796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Case Ongoing

On December 9, 2009, two prisoners at California's Pelican Bay prison who had been kept in solitary confinement for decades filed this § 1983 action against the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, originally proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the "in…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Vote Forward v. DeJoy

1:20-cv-02405 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2020

Closed Date: May 25, 2021

This is a case about delays in mail-in ballots due to United States Postal Service (USPS) policy changes. On August 28, 2020, Vote Forward, Voces Unidas de las Montañas, Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (“COLOR”), Padres & Jóvenes Unidos, and eleven individuals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against USPS and the Postmaster General. The challenged policies included policies prohibiting late or extra delivery trips. P…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:19-cv-07777 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 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…
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
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Brown v. Precythe

2:17-cv-04082 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

This class-action litigation was filed on May 18, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. An amended complaint was filed on June 8, 2017. In the lawsuit, four named plaintiffs challenged the Missouri Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) parole procedures for juveniles sentenced to life without parole before the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which held that mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders without the possibility…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Fraihat v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

5:19-cv-01546 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a preexisting class action addressing conditions of confinement in ICE custody, particularly for noncitizen detainees with medical or mental health needs, or other disabilities. On March 24, 2020, plaintiffs sought an emergency order addressing the COVID-19 infection risks of detainees with special risk factors, or releasing them. On April 20, 2020, the court granted the plaintiffs' motions for certification of subclass and preliminary injunction. The defendants appea…