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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
CODING IN PROCESS
McDonough v. Smith, III

1:15-cv-01505 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2015

Closed Date: Aug. 11, 2022

On December 18, 2015, almost three years after the former Rensselaer County Democratic Elections Commissioner was acquitted in state court of forging absentee ballots in a local primary election, he filed this suit against the County of Rensselaer and multiple individuals who he alleged were involved in his prosecution, including the Special District Attorney for the County. The plaintiff filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for…
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Kenny v. Wilson

2:16-cv-02794 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 11, 2016, the non-profit, Girls Rock, and four students of South Carolina public schools, filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of South Carolina and the heads of twelve South Carolina Police Departments under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the court for a declaratory judgment that two South Carolina codes, commonly referred to as the "Disturbing…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Pelichet v. Lyon

2:18-cv-11385 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 2, 2018

Case Ongoing

On May 2, 2018 a group of individuals with mental health diagnoses sued the Commissioner of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. They alleged that the defendants administered the mental health system in a manner that unnecessarily segregated and lacked sufficient due process, violating of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the 4th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. District Judge Paul D. Borman was assi…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
Eidler v. Brookdale Senior Living

4:17-cv-03962 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 13, 2017

Case Ongoing

On July 13, 2017, elderly and dependent residents with physical or cognitive impairments who lived in assisted living facilities, represented by private counsel, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the US District Court of the Northern District of California under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and California state law against the corporation that owned the facilities. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendant's California facilities and services failed to meet access…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…
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…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Myatt v. Fries

1:10-cv-00064 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2010

Closed Date: June 27, 2017

This class action was brought against the Allen County Sheriff, headquartered in Fort Wayne, IN, for failure to bring people arrested on the weekends for their probable cause hearing determination within 48 hours of arrest. The named plaintiff was arrested without a warrant on September 18, 2009, a Friday night, and was not taken for her probable cause hearing until September, 21, 2009, the following Monday morning. The plaintiff filed a class action complaint in the District Court for the Nort…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Jock v. Sterling Jewelers, Inc.

1:08-cv-02875 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 18, 2008

Case Ongoing

On March 18, 2008, sixteen current and former female employees of Sterling Jewelers, Inc., filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Sterling, a large jewelry retailer. The case was assigned to District Judge Jed Sol Rakoff. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued under under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000e), the Equal Pay Act (29 U.S.C. § 206(d)), and the Age Discrimination in Employm…
POLICING
Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump

1:20-cv-01469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 4, 2020

Case Ongoing

Black Lives Matter - D.C. and several individual protestors brought this lawsuit on June 4, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of D.C. in response to President Trump's use of military police to disperse peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square Park on June 1st, 2020. Protesters had gathered as part of the nationwide outcry following the police killing of George Floyd. Around 6:30 in the evening, following an order to clear the square from Attorney General Barr, military and federal…