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PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Case Ongoing

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the Chicago public interest organization that has for decades represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record—over 2100 documents, all told.  About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show mo…
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…
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. On May 8, 2013, three prisoners in Riverside county ja…
EDUCATION
Biediger v. Quinnipiac University

3:09-cv-00621 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 16, 2009

Case Ongoing

In March 2009, Quinnipiac University announced plans to cut its women's volleyball team, men's golf team, and men's outdoor track team. At the same time, the University pledged to create a new varsity sport, competitive cheerleading, for the 2009-10 season. Plaintiffs, who were five current Quinnipiac women's varsity volleyball players and their coach, filed this lawsuit against Quinnipiac in response, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, on April 16, 2009. They were r…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sundstrom and Fields v. Frank

2:06-cv-00112 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2006

Case Ongoing

On January 24, 2006, several transgender state prisoners in Wisconsin state prisons filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Division. The Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to redress Defendants' violations of their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs were represented by attorneys from the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., the ACLU Foundation, Inc., t…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Victory v. Berks County

5:18-cv-05170 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 2018

Case Ongoing

A woman incarcerated at Pennsylvania’s Berks County Jail filed this lawsuit against the County and several county officials and jail officials. Her complaint, filed November 30, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleged that the jail violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by discriminating against her on the basis of her sex: her “Trusty” security classification did not qualify her for lower-security housing in the off-site Comm…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Coreas v. Bounds

8:20-cv-00780 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a habeas action filed by immigration detainees in ICE facilities in Maryland, seeking release from detention. The detainees claimed their underlying medical conditions made them particularly vulnerable to serious illness or death from COVID-19. The court granted preliminary injunctions on April 30 and May 7, ordering the release of several detainees. Additionally, on September 18, the court granted the petitioner's motion for class certification. The court denied a mot…
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'…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Banks v. Booth

1:20-cv-00849 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

Case Ongoing

In the final week of March 2020, the District of Columbia Department of Corrections (“DOC”) announced five COVID-19 cases from different units in its facilities. On March 30, individuals incarcerated in D.C. jails filed this class action lawsuit on behalf of all such individuals in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented by the ACLU-DC and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, the plaintiffs sued the Director and Warden of the DOC. The plaintiffs ch…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction

1:17-cv-00151 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 6, 2017

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff in this case is a transgender, Native American woman. She was incarcerated at facilities run by the Idaho Department of Corrections. Despite multiple attempts at self-castration, the Idaho Department of Corrections and its employees had denied her medically necessary care, refused to transfer her, and failed to provide accommodations for her to express her gender identity. The defendants refused to provide the plaintiff with hormone treatment and gender confirmation surgery. Becau…