Support the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse?

The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse is committed to making information about civil rights lawsuits public, accessible, and free. If you use our--recently revamped--website and the posted documents and information, would you consider a donation? Our small but mighty team relies principally on grant funding and donations. Can you help?

Support the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse?

The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse is committed to making information about civil rights lawsuits public, accessible, and free. If you use our--recently revamped--website and the posted documents and information, would you consider a donation? Our small but mighty team relies principally on grant funding and donations. Can you help?

Thank you!

DONATE

Search for:
clear search

Docket Number

Key Dates

Filing Date

Settlement / Judgment Date

Terminating Date

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Case Details

Outcome

Issues

MORE▾

Document Details

Document Filing Date

MORE▾

Document Citation (Choose One)

Use this for most court reporters

S.Ct. reporter and WL only

LEXIS and L.Ed. only

Search for:
26 cases, 25 documents
Ordered by
PRISON CONDITIONS
James v. Global TelLink Corp.

2:13-cv-04989 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 2013

Closed Date: Oct. 10, 2020

This is a case about the unfair business practices of Global Tel*Link, a private company with a state granted monopoly on telephone services in New Jersey's prison systems. On August 20, 2013 the plaintiffs, people incarcerated in New Jersey prisons and people who created accounts with Global Tel*Link to receive calls from New Jersey prisoners, filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, where it was assigned to United States District Judg…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Adams & Boyle v. Slatery

3:15-cv-00705 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 25, 2015

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary In light of COVID-19, the Governor of Tennessee issued an executive order limiting "non-emergency" health care procedures, including all abortions except for medication abortion. The plaintiffs supplemented their complaint to address the order. The district court enjoined the defendants from enforcing the order on April 17, 2020, and the Sixth Circuit affirmed the injunction on April 24. However, on January 25, 2021, the Supreme Court vacated the injunction as moot. Challenge …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Savino v. Hodgson

1:20-cv-10617 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: A class action for emergency release by noncitizens in civil immigration detention in the Bristol County House of Corrections. Judge William Young provisionally certified five sub-classes, reviewed dozens of bail applications, and released several individuals. Then on May 12, he banned further admissions to the facility and ordered universal COVID-19 testing. The defendants moved to reconsider and appealed to the First Circuit. On June 3, the court declined to reconsider the p…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Williams v. Mohawk Industries

4:04-cv-00003 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2004

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2010

On January 6, 2004, current and former employees of Mohawk Industries Inc., a giant carpet and rug manufacturer, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, alleging that Mohawk engaged in a massive scheme to hire undocumented immigrants for the express purpose of depressing employee wages.In furtherance of their scheme, defendants were alleged to have: traveled to border towns to recruit undocumented immigrants to work in their plants, provided transpo…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
United States v. Virginia

3:12-cv-00059 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 2012

Case Ongoing

On February 10, 2011, the United States Department of Justice (Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section) released a letter of findings detailing the results of its investigation into the institutionalization of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Virginia. The investigation focused specifically on the Central Virginia Training Center (CVTC), an intermediate care facility for persons with developmental disabilities (ICF/DD), but also considered the statewide…
POLICING
Ligon v. City of New York

1:12-cv-02274 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 28, 2012

Case Ongoing

This is one of four ongoing cases challenging the constitutionality of the New York Police Department's "Stop and Frisk" program. See: Floyd v. City of New York (PN-NY-0009); Daniels v. City of New York (PN-NY-0010); and Davis v. City of New York (PN-NY-0013).On March 28, 2012, twelve New York City residents and one former New York City resident filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the City of New York and the New York City Police Department …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Johnson [later Kelly, Nielsen]

4:15-cv-00250 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

This is a class action about conditions of confinement in the "hold rooms" used by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for short-term detention of noncitizens apprehended near the border. The case deals with all the hold rooms in the Tucson Sector, which consists of nine "stations" covering most of Arizona and accounted for 18% of all border patrol apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2014. Most recently, the District Court entered a comprehensive opinion finding conditions un…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Jones v. DeSantis

4:19-cv-00300 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 15, 2019

Case Ongoing

In the fall of 2018, Florida voters amended the Florida Constitution, restoring voting rights to most people convicted of felonies “upon completion of all terms of sentence, including parole or probation.” (This excluded people convicted of murder or sexual offenses.) On June 28, 2019, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7066 into law, defining “all terms of sentence” to include payment of all conviction-related restitution, fines, fees, and costs (“legal financial obligations”). People…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Butler v. Suffolk County

2:11-cv-02602 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

Case Ongoing

On May 27, 2011, twenty persons then confined in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility (SCCF), which consists of the Riverhead Correctional Facility (a medium/maximum security jail) and the Yaphank Correctional Facility (a minimum security jail), filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983. The lawsuit was filed pro se as a class action, on behalf of those individuals and all others similarly situated. The plaintiffs sought …