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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Army Sustainment, LLC

1:20-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 6, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 28, 2024

This case asks whether barring employees in safety-sensitive roles from using certain prescription drugs constitutes discrimination, if those employees aren't using those medications while working. On April 6, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit against Army Sustainment, LLC—a former federal contractor that maintained military aircraft at Fort Rucker (now Fort Novosel)—challenging Army Sustainment’s workplace drug policy, which prohibited employees in safety-sens…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Washington v. The GEO Group Inc.

3:17-cv-05806 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2017

This case addressed whether a Washington State minimum wage law applied to immigration detainees. The state of Washington filed suit in the Pierce County Superior Court on September 20, 2017. The defendant was the GEO Group, Inc., a for-profit corporation that operated the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). Washington alleged two causes of action. First, they claimed defendant’s policy of paying immigrant detainees only $1 per day violated the Washington Minimum Wage Act (MWA), which set the mi…
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

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 …
POLICING
Timpa v. Dillard

3:16-cv-03089 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2016

Closed Date: May 15, 2024

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This case involved the death of an individual who died in policy custody in Dallas, Texas. The complaint alleged that the officers violated the Fourth Amendment by using excessive force, when they placed the individual face down on the ground and restrained him for several minutes despite his pleas for help and statements that he could not breathe. The individual lost consciousness and later passed away at the hospital.

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Reversed

DISABILITY RIGHTS
Florida State Conference of Branches and Youth Units of the NAACP v. Byrd

4:23-cv-00215 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 24, 2023

On May 24, 2023, Plaintiffs Florida State Conference of Branches and Youth Units of the NAACP, Voters of Tomorrow Action, Inc., Disability Rights Florida (the Florida protection and advocacy system), Alianza for Progress, Alianza Center, and UnidosUS, filed a lawsuit challenging provisions of a recently-passed state law, Senate Bill 7050, that imposed restrictions and penalties on third-party voter registration organizations that sought to register eligible Floridians to vote and put limitation…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County

3:22-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

This case centers around the 2021 Galveston County, Texas redistricting process and is part of a series of cases challenging the redistricting practices in Galveston County over a number of years. This was the first Voting Rights Act (VRA) case decided since the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023). Following the 2010 Census, county leaders adopted a redistricting plan for the county commissioners’ districts that would have effectively removed the single minority op…
POLICING
Roberts Webb v. City of Maplewood

4:16-cv-01703 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2016

On November 1, 2016, six residents of Missouri filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs sued the city of Maplewood under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought certification of their class as well as declaratory and injunctive relief. The case was assigned to Judge Catherine D. Perry.  The plaintiffs alleged that the city had implemented an extortionate scheme against citizens whereby the cit…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aguilar v. ICE

1:07-cv-08224 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2007

On September 20, 2007 several Latino families and individuals, represented by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and private counsel, filed a class action suit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging raids conducted as part of a program called "Operation Return to Sender." Plaintiffs alleged that federal agents unlawfully raided the home…
CHILD WELFARE
Michelle H. v. Haley

2:15-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2015

On January 12, 2015, eleven named minor children in the legal custody of the South Carolina Department of Social Services ("SCDSS") filed this putative class action lawsuit (by their Next Friends) against the Governor of South Carolina and SCDSS in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. The named plaintiffs were represented by two advocacy organizations, Children's Rights and Appleseed, and by private counsel. Plaintiffs intended to seek certification of a class of…
POLICING
Perez v. City of Chicago

1:13-cv-04531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 20, 2013

On June 20, 2013, a man who had been arrested and detained in Chicago’s Homan Square detention center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued the City of Chicago and Chicago police officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by a private firm, the plaintiff asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages. The plaintiff claimed that the City of Chicago and the individual police officers violated his Fourth and Fourteenth Amen…