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EDUCATION
Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina

1:14-cv-00954 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On Nov. 17, 2014, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the University of North Carolina (UNC). The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the consideration of race in college admissions, claiming that UNC's current admissions policy discriminated against Asian A…
EDUCATION
Eccleston v. Pine Bush Central School District

7:12-cv-02303 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 28, 2012

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2018

On March 28th, 2012, five former and current Jewish students filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against the Pine Bush School District. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for declarative judgment, injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the school district had responded with deliberate indifference to the rampant anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment directed at the plaintif…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Brnovich v. Biden

2:21-cv-01568 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2021

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a case brought by Arizona's Attorney General challenging the Biden administration's planned vaccine mandate as unconstitutional under the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a broad plan to increase vaccination rates nationwide. The plan would require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforces were fully vaccinated or tested weekly. In addition, it would require federal contracto…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Currier

3:12-cv-00436 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 27, 2012

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2019

This is a case challenging Mississippi’s House Bill 1390, which was passed in April 2012 and required all physicians associated with an abortion facility to (1) have admitting privileges at a local hospital and (2) be board-certified or eligible in obstetrics and gynecology. Several Mississippi legislators commented publicly that the purpose of the law was to end abortion in the state. On June 27, 2012, Jackson Whole Women’s Health, Mississippi’s sole abortion provider, along with one of its ph…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Cameron v. Bouchard

2:20-cv-10949 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 17, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a habeas action brought on behalf of classes of pre-trial and post-trial detainees at the Oakland County Jail, seeking release in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs also sought an injunction that would require the defendants to take concrete steps towards protecting those in the jail from COVID-19. On May 21, the judge conditionally certified the class and granted the preliminary injunction, requiring the jail to take certain safety and hygiene measures. Th…
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
Williams v. Mohawk Industries

4:04-cv-00003 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2004

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2010

On January 6, 2004, current and former employees of Mohawk Industries Inc., a giant carpet and rug manufacturer, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, alleging that Mohawk engaged in a massive scheme to hire undocumented immigrants for the express purpose of depressing employee wages.In furtherance of their scheme, defendants were alleged to have: traveled to border towns to recruit undocumented immigrants to work in their plants, provided transpo…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Batalla Vidal v. Nielsen

1:16-cv-04756 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 25, 2016, a Mexican-born Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient living in New York filed this suit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff, represented by Make the Road New York, the National Immigration Law Center, and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, sued under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and 5 U.S.C. § 551, alleging that the revocation of his …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gulley-Fernandez v. Johnson

2:15-cv-00795 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: July 1, 2015

Closed Date: Nov. 1, 2018

The plaintiff is a trans woman who filed her complaint pro se on July 1, 2015, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. She named as defendants the Warden and Administrative Captain of the prison she was housed in as well as two of the doctors at the facility. The case was assigned to Judge Lynn Adelman. The plaintiff initially only sought damages, but moved for injunctive relief as well during the litigation. The complaint was styled as a class action and list…