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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…
NATIONAL SECURITY
United States v. Hasbajrami

1:11-cr-00623 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2011

Case Ongoing

This case is the third time the government notified a criminal defendant that the evidence used against him was from a FISA warrantless wiretap. All the cases regarding criminal challenges to warrantless wiretapping are available in the criminal cases challenging FISA surveillance special collection. On September 6, 2011, Agron Hasbajrami, an Albanian citizen and a lawful U.S. permanent resident, was arrested boarding a flight to Istanbul, Turkey, on a one-way ticket. He was indicted two days l…
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 …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Missouri v. Biden

3:22-cv-01213 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 5, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns communication between U.S. officials and technology companies and allegations that numerous federal officials coerced social-media platforms into censoring certain social media content in violation of the First Amendment. Plaintiffs Missouri, Louisiana, and five private persons claimed that Defendants suppressed conservative-leaning free speech. On May 5, 2022, Plaintiffs, represented by Attorney Generals of Missouri and Louisiana, New Civil Liberties Alliance and private cou…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Thompson v. Alabama

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

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2016

Closed Date: May 26, 2023

This case challenges section 177(b) of the Alabama Constitution, which disenfranchises individuals with convictions of felonies "involving moral turpitude." In 1985, the Supreme Court held that the 1901 drafters of the Alabama disenfranchisement provision specifically selected the vague and arbitrary "moral turpitude" standard in order to disenfranchise black people. Hunter v. Underwood, 471 U.S. 222 (1985). The provision was therefore unconstitutional and inoperative. But in 1996, Alabama put …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Steele-Warrick v. Microgenics

1:19-cv-06558 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2019

Case Ongoing

On November 20, 2019, a formerly incarcerated individual filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff alleged negligence by Microgenics Corporation and its parent company, Thermo Fischer Scientific Corporation. The plaintiff sought to represent “all persons who obtained positive testing results for Suboxone/buprenorphine generated by Indiko Plus urinalysis analyzers while in the New York State Department of Corrections and …
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…
EDUCATION
Biediger v. Quinnipiac University

3:09-cv-00621 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 16, 2009

Case Ongoing

In March 2009, Quinnipiac University announced plans to cut its women's volleyball team, men's golf team, and men's outdoor track team. At the same time, the University pledged to create a new varsity sport, competitive cheerleading, for the 2009-10 season. In response, five current Quinnipiac women's varsity volleyball players and their coach filed this putative class action lawsuit against Quinnipiac in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on April 16, 2009. They were repre…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction

1:17-cv-00151 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 6, 2017

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff in this case is a transgender, Native American woman. She was incarcerated at facilities run by the Idaho Department of Corrections. Despite multiple attempts at self-castration, the Idaho Department of Corrections and its employees had denied her medically necessary care, refused to transfer her, and failed to provide accommodations for her to express her gender identity. The defendants refused to provide the plaintiff with hormone treatment and gender confirmation surgery. Becau…