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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…
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 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 Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials centered around the agency's failure to …
JAIL CONDITIONS
McDonald v. Franklin County

2:13-cv-00503 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 3, 2013

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Franklin County’s policy of strip-searching individuals charged with low-level misdemeanor offenses and photographing their tattoos. The plaintiff, a resident of Franklin County, was arrested for disorderly conduct in 2012 and transported to the Franklin County Correction Center II (“Jackson Pike” facility). She was required to strip in the presence of other detained people and a male correctional officer who then photographed tattoos near her genitals. She was releas…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baxley v. Jividen

3:18-cv-01526 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: The plaintiffs in this West Virginia jail conditions class-action case filed an emergency motion for relief on March 25, 2020, seeking an order to require the defendants to develop, disclose, and implement a plan to take appropriate actions to protect the plaintiff class from COVID-19. The court denied the motion because it found that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim. On December 18, 2018, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at West Virginia'…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Jewel v. National Security Agency

4:08-cv-04373 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2008

Case Ongoing

On September 18, 2008, AT&T customers filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the United States. The plaintiffs, represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and private counsel, claimed that the federal government's electronic surveillance program violated the Fourth Amendment, First Amendment, separation of powers, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the Wiretap Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act or the …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Prince v. Aiellos

2:09-cv-05429 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2009

Case Ongoing

On October 23, 2009, an individual plaintiff filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Hackensack Police Department, Hackensack Municipal Court, Bergen County Jail in the City of Hackensack, Bergen County Municipal Court, and Bergen County Prosecutor. The plaintiff, representing himself pro se, sought compensatory and punitive damages plus special damages for future legal fees. The plaintiff specifically claimed that the defenda…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Gulino v. New York City Board of Education

1:96-cv-08414 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 8, 1996

Case Ongoing

On November 8, 1996, a group of Black and Latinx teachers in the New York City Public School System filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Board of Education of the New York City School District (Board) and the New York State Education Department (Department). This action was filed on behalf of themselves and all similarly situated Black and Latinx teachers in the system who were adversely affected by either of two allegedly …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
U.S. v. Georgia

1:10-cv-00249 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2010

Case Ongoing

In 2008 and 2009, the United States Department of Justice investigated Georgia’s seven state-operated psychiatric hospitals. The investigations found that the hospitals were violating patients’ constitutional and statutory rights in multiple ways, such as by: failing to adequately protect patients from harm; improperly utilizing seclusion and restraints; providing inadequate nursing and health care; failing to provide adequate services for populations with specialized needs; and failing to disc…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Emily Q. v. Bonta

2:98-cv-04181 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 27, 1998

On May 27, 1998 a group of seven children with intensive mental health needs who were eligible for Medi-Cal benefits filed suit against the California Department of Health Services in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California alleging violations of the Medicaid Act. They contended they were entitled under federal law to mental health benefits that were being denied to them, specifically Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS). They sought injunctive relief requiring that…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Garcia v. Vilsack

1:00-cv-02445 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2000

Closed Date: 2014

On October 13, 2000, a group of Hispanic farmers and ranchers filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("USDA") in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleged that the "USDA ha[d] maintained, and continue[d] to maintain, a system of administering its farm credit and non-credit benefit programs that gives virtually unfettered discretion to local officials to enforce highly subjective eligibility criteria that, in…