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PUBLIC HOUSING
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority

1:66-cv-01459 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 1966

Case Ongoing

Filed in 1966 and still ongoing as of 2022, this is one of the most significant housing desegregation cases ever, leading to the nation's first desegregative housing mobility voucher program. In collaboration with BPI, the organization that represented the plaintiffs in this case, the Clearinghouse has acquired and posted the full litigation record -- over 2100 documents, all told. About 230 "core" documents are set to display here; if you click on "show more" you'll see about 800 more.  Anothe…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Castañeda Juarez v. Asher

2:20-cv-00700 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a class action lawsuit in which people detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center ("NWIPC"), which houses detainees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), sought their release due to their risk of contracting COVID at this facility. More specifically, petitioners each suffered from underlying medical conditions that placed them at a greater risk of a severe illness or death should they contract COVID. The facility was operated by GEO, a private prison company. On May …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Abu-Jamal v. Kerestes

3:15-cv-00967 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 18, 2015

Case Ongoing

On May 18, 2015, a prisoner at the Mahanoy State Correctional Institute filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The complaint arose out of the plaintiff’s hospitalization for Hepatitis C. The plaintiff sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Bureau of Health Care Services of the DOC. The initial complaint claimed violations of First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The plaintiff claimed that, while hospitalized, the …
CHILD WELFARE
Marisol A. v. Giuliani

1:95-cv-10533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1995

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2018

This federal class action was brought by children in the custody of the New York City Child Welfare Administration ("CWA"), and children who, while not in the custody of CWA, are or will be at risk of abuse or neglect and whose status is known or should be known to CWA. It was filed on December 13, 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights Inc., Lawyers for Children, and private counsel, sought class certification, …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States v. Arpaio

2:16-cr-01012 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

The defendant here, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio (“Sheriff Arpaio”) was referred for criminal contempt on August 19, 2016. The U.S. prosecuted Sheriff Arpaio and obtained a conviction on July 31, 2017. 2017 WL 3268180. On August 25, 2017, President Donald J. Trump pardoned Sheriff Arpaio.On August 28, 2017, Sheriff Arpaio moved for two forms of relief (1) to dismiss this matter with prejudice, and (2) to vacate the verdict and all other orders in this matter, as well as the s…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Adkins v. Morgan Stanley

1:12-cv-07667 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 2012

Closed Date: 2017

On October 15, 2012, five black Detroit residents and Michigan Legal Services filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Morgan Stanley under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601 et seq., the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), 15 U.S.C. § 1691, and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the National Consumer Law Center, and private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, declaratory relief, damages, a…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Inmates of Occoquan v. Barry

1:86-cv-02128 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1986

Case Ongoing

On August 4, 1986, the prisoners at the Occoquan Facilites of the District of Columbia's Lorton Correctional Complex filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the District of Columbia government officials responsible for these medium security facilities in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that overcrowding at the facility violated their Eighth Amendment rights, and that the District of Columbia repeatedly fai…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
ARC v. O'Meara

3:01-cv-01871 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2001

Closed Date: 2005

On October 2, 2001, Arc/Connectibut (a non-profit advocacy organization) and ten individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit under the Medicaid statute, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the U. S. Constitution, against various state officials in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that their rights had been violated. Specifically, Plaintiffs claimed that t…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Marriott v. Montgomery County

5:03-cv-00531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: April 29, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

On April 29, 2003, a person represented by a group of private attorneys from New York and D.C. law firms filed a class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the North District of New York, challenging the jail admission policy of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department. The policy, known as a "change-out" procedure, required that each admittee to be placed in the Montgomery County Jail had to remove his/her clothes, shower and then change in…