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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:19-cv-07777 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 2019

Closed Date: March 6, 2023

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. District court judges from across the countries granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the public char…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Benjamin v. Horn

1:75-cv-03073 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 24, 1975

Case Ongoing

This case was consolidated for enforcement purposes with Ambrose v. Malcolm; Detainees of Queens House of Detention v. Malcolm; Detainees of Brooklyn House of Detention for Men v. Malcolm; Maldonado v. Ciuros; Forts v. Malcolm; and Rosenthal v. Malcolm. The summary below includes all of these in the consolidated form, but more information about each individual case is included in the "Related Cases" section. On June 24, 1975, a group of pretrial detainees at Rikers Island Detention Center for M…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Tucson Woman's Clinic v. Schamadan

4:00-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 1, 2000

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2010

Abortion providers in Arizona brought this case on March 1, 2000 on behalf of themselves and their patients against several state officials pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, including the Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, the Arizona Attorney General, and a class of all prosecuting attorneys in the state of Arizona. The plaintiffs were represented by the County Attorney for the County of Maricopa. Plaintiffs challenged a set of Arizona statutes and regulations passed in 1999 th…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
R.J. v. Bishop

1:12-cv-07289 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2012

Case Ongoing

On September 12, 2012, youth confined in facilities operated by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court against the IDJJ. The plaintiffs, represented by counsel from the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that systemic IDJJ conditions, services, and treatment violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Dobbey v. Weilding

1:13-cv-01068 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 2013

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: The plaintiffs, a class of prisoners housed at Stateville Correctional Center, asked the court to temporarily appoint an expert to oversee the Illinois Department of Correction's (IDOC) response to the COVID-19 pandemic at Stateville. The court denied the motion on April 13, 2020. This case was originally filed in 2013. The original plaintiff, Lester Dobbey, was an inmate in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections in the Stateville Correctional Center. On Februar…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Johnson v. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

2:08-cv-03515 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 29, 2008

Case Ongoing

On May 29, 2008, three prisoners with mobility impairments housed in Los Angeles County jail facilities filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. They challenged alleged discrimination against people with disabilities in the Los Angeles County jail system. Represented by private counsel, the Disab…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.R. (Lucas R.) v. Azar

2:18-cv-05741 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a pre-existing class action about non-citizen kids in HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody. Plaintiffs are seeking emergency releases of nearly all such children, in light of the grave risk of infection in congregate settings. The court denied the plaintiffs' application for TRO on April 2. This class action suit, filed on June 29, 2018, sought to enjoin the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), of …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hawaii v. Trump

1:17-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

The below summary is a condensed version. The full summary can be found here on the Clearinghouse website. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin filed this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 against President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants, visitors, and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a concurrent complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. Distr…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rodriguez v. Hayes

2:07-cv-03239 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 16, 2007, an immigration detainee who had been held for more than six months without a bond hearing while in removal proceedings petitioned the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California for a writ of habeas corpus. The plaintiff claimed that, without a bond hearing, detention over six months violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the statutory requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Represented by private counsel, the ACLU of Southe…