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PRISON CONDITIONS
Amos v. Hall

4:20-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a preexisting putative class action case about conditions of confinement in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, MS. On March 16, 2020, plaintiffs sought emergency relief--various precautions to slow the spread of the coronavirus, which was denied on April 24. On June 9, the plaintiffs filed a supplemental motion for TRO and preliminary injunction, alleging unconstitutional living conditions, which was denied on March 19, 2021. On November 12, the case was c…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Sierra Club v. Trump

4:19-cv-00892 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

In 2018, President Trump repeatedly requested Congress appropriate 5.7 billion dollars for the construction of a southern border wall. On February 14th, 2019, Congress denied this request and appropriated only 1.375 billion dollars for the construction of a strip of border fencing. While President Trump signed this appropriations bill the following day, he simultaneously declared a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act (NEA) and directed the Departments of Defense and Homeland S…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
M.G. v. Cuomo

7:19-cv-00639 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2019, six indigent prisoners with mental illness whom the defendants held in secure prisons past their release dates filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of other prisoners in similar situations. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of New York, the New York State Office of Mental Health, Commissioner, Associate Commissioner, and the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ("DOCCS"), alleging …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
California v. Ross

3:18-cv-01865 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 26, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

On March 26, 2018, the State of California filed this claim against the Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Census Bureau in the U.S. District Court of Northern California. It challenged the defendants' plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census. California alleged that this question will undermine the defendants' duty to collect an "actual enumeration" of the U.S. population mandated by the Enumeration Clause, Article I of the Constitution. In addition, California claims that t…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Chen v. GEO

3:17-cv-05769 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2017

Case Ongoing

On September 26, 2017, a former immigrant detainee of the Northwest Detention Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Robert J. Bryan. The plaintiff sued The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), the for-profit corporation that operated the detention center, under state law, claiming that GEO’s policy of paying immigrant detainees involved in the federal Voluntary Work Program only $1 per day for their labor violated the Washi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hoffer v. Inch

4:17-cv-00214 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 2017, three Florida Department of Corrections prisoners who had chronic hepatitis C filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Judge Mark E. Walker was assigned to the case. The plaintiffs sued the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Rehabilitation Act for failing to provide prisoners in its custody who had chronic hepatitis C with adequate medical treatment,…
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
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…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Advocacy Center for the Elderly and Disabled v. Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

2:10-cv-01088 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 12, 2010

Closed Date: Dec. 8, 2014

On June 2010, the Advocacy Center OF Louisiana (the federally funded Protection & Advocacy organization serving people with disabilities in Louisiana) and a patient detainee incarcerated by the State of Louisiana filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of Louisiana inmates who had been deemed incompetent to stand trial. The plaintiffs sued the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendm…
PUBLIC HOUSING
Inclusive Communities Project v. Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

3:08-cv-00546 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 28, 2008

Closed Date: 2018

On March 28, 2008, the Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. (ICP) - a Texas non-profit that helps integrate low-income black families into Dallas's predominately white suburban neighborhoods - filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1982 and 1983, and the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3604 and 3605. In its complaint, ICP, represented by private counsel, sought …