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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…
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
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'…
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
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…
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…
CHILD WELFARE
Kenny A. v. Perdue

1:02-cv-01686 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 19, 2002

Case Ongoing

The advocacy organization Children's Rights, Inc. filed this lawsuit in June 2002 against the state of Georgia and the Departments of Family and Children Services (DFCS) in Fulton and DeKalb Counties, on behalf of children in foster care in Fulton and DeKalb counties. Plaintiffs alleged violations of the Georgia State Constitution, the First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, the Medicaid Act, and the Multi…
EDUCATION
Biediger v. Quinnipiac University

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

Filed Date: April 16, 2009

Closed Date: Oct. 11, 2016

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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Hampe v. Hamos

1:10-cv-03121 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 20, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 3, 2016

Several young adults who were considered medically fragile (having severe disabilities and relying on technology for survival) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on May 20, 2010. The named plaintiffs were each 20 years old and were able to live in the community because they received care through a Medicaid waiver for medically fragile or technology dependent (MF/TD) individuals with disabilities. This waiver program was only availa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Chapman v. Hardin County, Kentucky

3:05-cv-00433 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2005

Closed Date: 2011

On August 1, 2005, a female inmate at the Hardin County Detention Center (HCDC) filed a civil rights class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, alleged that she and other inmates of the Jail contracted Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) because of inadequate policies and practices to diagnose, treat, isolate, and prevent the spread of MRSA. The plaintiff sought m…