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CHILD WELFARE
M.D. v. Abbott

2:11-cv-00084 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 29, 2011

Case Ongoing

This class action (previously, M.D. v. Perry) involving long-term foster care in Texas was filed on March 29, 2011, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff class of children in long-term foster care was represented by private counsel and Children's Rights, Inc.; they sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state failed to protect foster children from systemic harm. The complaint alleged that defendants' frequent moves of the foster care c…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McDonald v. Franklin County

2:13-cv-00503 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 3, 2013

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Franklin County’s policy of strip-searching individuals charged with low-level misdemeanor offenses and photographing their tattoos. The plaintiff, a resident of Franklin County, was arrested for disorderly conduct in 2012 and transported to the Franklin County Correction Center II (“Jackson Pike” facility). She was required to strip in the presence of other detained people and a male correctional officer who then photographed tattoos near her genitals. She was releas…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ackerman v. Washington

4:13-cv-14137 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2013

Case Ongoing

This case concerns a Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) policy enacted in 2013 that replaced all previously offered religious diets with a vegan one. On September 27, 2013, three Orthodox Jewish men who were incarcerated at Central Michigan Correctional Facility filed this lawsuit pro se against MDOC’s Director, Special Activities Coordinator, and Food Service Director in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They sought declaratory and inju…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Myatt v. Fries

1:10-cv-00064 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2010

Closed Date: June 27, 2017

This class action was brought against the Allen County Sheriff, headquartered in Fort Wayne, IN, for failure to bring people arrested on the weekends for their probable cause hearing determination within 48 hours of arrest. The named plaintiff was arrested without a warrant on September 18, 2009, a Friday night, and was not taken for her probable cause hearing until September, 21, 2009, the following Monday morning. The plaintiff filed a class action complaint in the District Court for the Nort…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Booth v. Galveston County

3:18-cv-00104 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 8, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 8, 2018, a prisoner in Galveston County Jail filed this class action in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The case was assigned to Judge George C. Hanks, Jr. Represented by the ACLU of Texas and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued Galveston County and various Galveston County officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff alleged that Galveston County’s bail policies—especially the practice of setting a high minimum bail and failing to appoint defense counsel fo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Feldman v. Arizona Secretary of State

2:16-cv-01065 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 15, 2016

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. This case is about the legality and constitutionality of voting procedures in Arizona. The plaintiffs, which included several individual voters, Kirkpatrick for U.S. Senate, the national and senatorial Democratic Party committees, and the former chairman of the Navajo Nation filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on Apri…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hugo Martin Recinos-Recinos v. Express Forestry Inc.

2:05-cv-01355 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 7, 2005

Closed Date: 2007

On April 7, 2005, attorneys with the Immigrant Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of over 300 predominantly Guatemalan and Mexican migrant workers, admitted to work in the U.S. pursuant to H-2B temporary foreign worker visa program, who planted trees and performed other forestry-related activities for Express Forestry Inc. Plainti…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Dubois v. Medows

4:03-cv-00107 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 11, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

On April 11, 2003, three individuals with brain or spinal injuries who were on the waiting list for the Brain or Spinal Cord Injury Medicaid Home and Community Based Waiver Program (BSCI Waiver Program) filed a lawsuit against several Florida state officials under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §1201 et seq.; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §794(a); Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §1396 et seq., and Due Process Clause in the U.S. District…
CHILD WELFARE
G.L. v. Sherman

4:77-cv-00242 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 25, 1977

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2006

In 1977 (and thereafter amended a number of times), the foster children of Jackson Missouri, represented by Children's Rights Inc., and Legal Aid of Western Missouri, filed a class action aimed at reforming the state's child welfare system. The federal complaint charges the Missouri Division of Family Services (DFS) with endangering the lives of children in state custody by failing to properly investigate and monitor foster homes that were found to be unsafe, unsanitary and unsupervised. Plaint…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Shariff v. Allah

6:05-cv-06504 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 7, 2005

Case Ongoing

On September 29, 2003, a group of paraplegic prisoners, proceeding pro se, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against prison officials. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to provide adequate medical care in violation their rights under the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, they alleged that prison officials failed to provide adequate bladder care and treatment, such as proper use of disposable catheters, properly…