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Wilkins v. Aberdeen Enterprises

4:17-cv-00606 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Nov. 2, 2017

Case Ongoing

On November 2, 2017, individuals facing arrest because of their inability to pay their court fines and costs filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The plaintiffs sued the Oklahoma Sheriff’s Association, every Oklahoma county sheriff, and Aberdeen Enterprises, a private collections company. The plaintiffs sued under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Oklahoma state law. The plai…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Grimes v. Conectiv

2:05-cv-03389 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 1, 2005

Closed Date: 2012

On July 1, 2005, several employees who worked at ConectIv and three sub-contractors filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs sued ConectIv, Dellovade, Steel Suppliers and Bogan/Hake, collectively known as the Defendant Employers, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Plaintiffs represented by private attorneys sought monetary damages and injunctive relief to redress their raci…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Concerned Pastors for Social Action v. Khouri

2:16-cv-10277 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2016

Case Ongoing

On January 27, 2016, Concerned Pastors for Social Action filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs sued the state of Michigan and the city of Flint under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. §300j-8(a). The plaintiffs, represented by counsel from the ACLU, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, the plaintiffs requested that the court: (1) declare the de…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters v. Johnson

2:17-cv-14148 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 27, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 22, 2019

On December 22, 2017, the League of Women Voters of Michigan and eleven individual plaintiffs sued Ruth Johnson in her official capacity as Michigan Secretary of State in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division.  Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the congressional and legislative districting plan adopted by the Michigan Legislature in 2011 violated Plaintiffs’ rights under the First Amendment and the Equal Protect…
POLICING
Lou v. Lopinto

2:21-cv-00080 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2023

This case involved the death of a 16-year-old autistic child who died while being restrained by police. On January 14, 2021, the parents of the child sued several law enforcement individuals of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, the ABC Insurance Company, an unidentified insurance company, and the shopping center where the incident took place. The plaintiffs alleged that the law enforcement officers engaged in excessive and unreasonable force in the seizure and restraint of the child, which…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

Case Ongoing

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…
POLICING
United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD …
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

Case Ongoing

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…
EDUCATION
Adams v. The School Board of St. Johns County, Florida

3:17-cv-00739 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 28, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case involves the practice of separating school bathrooms based on biological sex. On June 28, 2017, a transgender student, who identified as male, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The student, a minor, sued the School Board and Superintendent of Schools of St. Johns County, Florida, as well as the principal of Allen D. Nease High School, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by Lambda Legal and private counsel, the student sought a declarator…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.L. v. Cissna

5:18-cv-04914 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2018

Closed Date: March 3, 2022

This class action lawsuit challenged changes during the Trump administration to the operation of Special Immigrant Juveniles (SIJ) Status program.  SIJ Status provides a pathway to lawful permanent residency in the U.S. for immigrants under the age of 21 who have been found dependent on a juvenile court because parental reunification is not possible and return to country of nationality is not in the juvenile's best interest.  Unlike other immigration remedies, which are processed solely before …