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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Askins v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

3:12-cv-02600 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

On October 24, 2012, two U.S. citizens detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) after taking pictures of ports of entry filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, under 5 U.S.C. § 702, 28 U.S.C. § 2201 and Bivens, against CBP, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the ACLU of San Diego and private counsel, sought injunctive, declaratory, and monetary relief, alleging that CBP's pol…
POLICING
U.S. v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

3:08-cv-00158 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2008

Case Ongoing

In March 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated an investigation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) pursuant to 42 USC § 14141. On October 5, 2005, the DOJ issued a technical assistance letter to VIPD, making recommendations regarding specific changes to the department's policies regarding use of force, vehicle pursuits, holding cells, misconduct investigations, discipline, supervisory oversight, and training. On December 23, 2008, the DOJ …
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

This case concerns a habeas petition and the due process rights of detained Iraqi Americans facing deportation to Iraq. Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition were Iraqi nationals, including many Chaldean Christians, who had resided in the United States for many years. They had 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. After the Trump Administration negotiated with Iraq in early 201…
POLICING
Index Newspapers LLC v. City of Portland

3:20-cv-01035 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: June 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations that the Portland police assaulted news reporters, photographers, legal observers, and other neutrals who were documenting the police’s violent response to protests over the murder of George Floyd. On June 28, 2020, the plaintiffs, who are members of the media and legal observers, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon on behalf of themselves and as a class of similarly situated people. The plaintiffs sued the City of Por…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause/New York v. Brehm

1:17-cv-06770 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2020

This is a case about a New York state law that removed inactive, but still registered, voters from voter lists at polling stations when those voters changed residences. On September 6, 2017, Common Cause/New York filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York against officials of the New York State Board of Elections alleging that their practice of labeling voters as inactive based on a change of residence and their removal of those voters from poll books at voting sites violated Sectio…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Glisson [later Meier]

3:17-cv-00189 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 29, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2023

This action was filed on March 29, 2017 by the ACLU, representing an individual doctor and his patients seeking abortions, as well as EMW Women’s Surgical Center, the only abortion clinic in the state of Kentucky, which was threatened with closure after the state found technical deficiencies in its agreements with a hospital and ambulance service. The suit was filed in the Western District of Kentucky against Kentucky’s Secretary for Health and Family Services and alleged violations of Substant…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Ferguson-Florissant School District

4:14-cv-02077 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a voter dilution case that challenged an at-large election system utilized by the Ferguson Florissant School District in the State of Missouri to elect members to its School Board.  On December 18, 2014, the Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and certain African American residents and registered voters of the District filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Plaintiffs sued Ferguson-Florissa…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
D.P. v. School Board of Palm Beach County

9:21-cv-81099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 22, 2021

Closed Date: July 5, 2023

This case challenged the School District of Palm Beach County (“SDPBC”) for its utilization of the Baker Act, a Florida state law that authorized medical professionals and law enforcement officers to initiate an involuntary psychiatric examination of a person in specific circumstances, including when there was a reason to believe that 1) the person had a mental illness, and 2) because of that mental illness, they posed an immediate danger to themselves or others. On June 22, 2021, five students…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
McNeil v. Community Probation Services

1:18-cv-00033 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: April 23, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 23, 2018, five residents of Tennessee filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs sued the Tennessee Correctional Services, and two for-profit probation companies, Community Probation Services (CPS) and Progressive Sentencing, Inc. (PSI), all under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Civil Rights Corps and private counsel, sough…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duke v. Dunn

4:14-cv-01952 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2014

Case Ongoing

On August 28, 2015, eleven men imprisoned in the Alabama Department of Corrections' St. Clair Correctional Facility brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Represented by The Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, a non-profit public interest group, they argued that the Alabama Department of Corrections' practices and policies resulted in a prison environment that amounted to cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amen…