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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

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division 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 engag…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-10676 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 23, 2025

This class action challenges Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deportations of noncitizens to countries that are not their designated country of removal, without first providing an opportunity for the noncitizen to demonstrate fear of persecution, torture, and even death in the chosen third country. Four anonymous class plaintiffs, all noncitizens from Central America currently residing in Massachusetts, filed this lawsuit on March 23, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Ma…

Preliminary Injunction Granted, but Stayed

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. State of Alabama

2:16-cv-00783 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2016

Closed Date: May 25, 2023

A voting rights organization and several convicted felons filed putative class action against the Alabama Secretary of State, chair of county board of registrars, and chair of Board of Pardons and Paroles, alleging that the amendment to state constitution disenfranchising persons convicted of felonies involving moral turpitude violated Equal Protection and Ex Post Facto Clauses, and that Alabama's mail voting registration form violated National Voting Registration Act (NVRA).  The Supreme Court…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Thorpe v. Virginia Department of Corrections

2:20-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: May 6, 2019

On May 6, 2019, twelve prisoners at the Red Onion and Wallens Ridge supermax prisons, who had each been in solitary confinement for between two and twenty-three years, filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs sued the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and the wardens of both Red Onion and Wallens Ridge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 19…

Case Is Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Alexander v. Hall

4:20-cv-00021 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2025

On February 10, 2020, fourteen prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Press reports connected this sue to entertainment mogul Jay-Z, who had the month before written an open letter to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant decrying the conditions at state correctional facilities. The plaintiffs claimed that state officials were aware of and deliberately indi…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

EDUCATION
Charles H. v. District of Columbia

1:21-cv-00997 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 9, 2021

This is a case about the District of Columbia's alleged failure to provide special education and related services to incarcerated students during the COVID-19 pandemic.  D.C. Public Schools was the service provider for certain high school students with disabilities and special education needs, who were enrolled in the D.C. Jail's on-site school through the Inspiring Youth Program (IYP).  IYP Classes for were suspended on March 13, 2020.  For over a year, however, IYP students alleged that instr…

Injunction Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Scott v. Tom Schedler

2:11-cv-00926 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 19, 2011

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2013

This is a case about voting access for individuals who registered through public assistance agencies in Louisiana.  On April 19, 2011, a Louisiana voter and the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP brought this action for injunctive relief under the National Voter Registration Act against the Defendants Louisiana Secretary of State, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, and the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services. The plaintiffs alleged that Defendants engaged in sys…
POLICING
United States v. City of Portland

3:12-cv-02265 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2012

This lawsuit was the culmination of an 18 month-long investigation of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141. That investigation, which began in June of 2011, was prompted by the high number of PPB officer-involved shootings that involved individuals with mental illness. On September 13, 2012, the DOJ issued a findings letter stating that it found reasonable cause to believ…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Monroe v. Baldwin

3:18-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2018

On January 31, 2018, five transgender women housed in Illinois men’s prisons brought a class action suit against the governor of Illinois, the Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections (“IDOC”), IDOC’s Chief of Health Services, its Statewide Mental Health Supervisor, and two members of its Gender Identity Disorder (“GID”) Committee (GID is now clinically referred to as Gender Dysphoria). The case was assigned to Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel in the United States District Court for …
POLICING
Baerga v. City of New York

1:21-cv-05762 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 5, 2021

This is a case about how the New York City Police Department (NYPD) must treat people who face mental health challenges. On July 5, 2021, an individual with mental disabilities filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against New York City and several New York City officials and police officers. Judge Alison Nathan presided at the time of filing. On December 29, 2021, the individual was joined by three additional individual plaintiffs and three non-prof…