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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…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
In re Black Farmers' Discrimination Litigation ("Pigford II")

1:08-mc-00511 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2008

Case Ongoing

On April 14, 1999, a consent decree was approved in Pigford v. Glickman, involving a class of thousands of Black farmers who had sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over racially discriminatory farm loan denials. 185 F.R.D. 82 (D.D.C. 1999). In the settlement, two "claim tracks" were created: Track A, which had a lower standard of proof of discrimination (paying up to $50,000 for credit claims and $3,000 for non-credit claims), and Track B, which required a preponderance of the evidence (pa…
POLICING
Epps v. City and County of Denver

1:20-cv-01878 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 25, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on June 25, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The suit responded to police tactics used on protesters in May and June of 2020, after police killed George Floyd. Represented by private counsel (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP) and ACLU attorneys, plaintiffs in this case were Black Lives Matter 5280, a Denver-based chapter of Black Lives Matter, and nine individual plaintiffs. They brought this suit against the city and county of Denver, offic…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McGee v. Pallito

5:04-cv-00335 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2004

Closed Date: July 14, 2017

On December 9, 2004, an inmate in the Vermont Department of Corrections filed this lawsuit pro se in the U.S. District Court District of Vermont. The plaintiff sued the Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Corrections and the Superintendents of Southern State Correctional Facility and Northern State Correctional Facility under 42 U.S.C. §1983. The pro se plaintiff sought declaratory relief stating the defendants’ actions were unlawful and violated the plaintiff’s rights, along with an inju…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Blackmon-Malloy v. U.S. Capitol Police Board

1:01-cv-02221 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2001

Case Ongoing

On October 29, 2001, more than 250 African-American current or former U.S. Capitol Police Officers filed this race discrimination lawsuit under the Congressional Accountability Act ("CAA"), 2 U.S.C. § 1311, against the United States Capitol Police Board in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs also included claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991, 42 U.S.C. § 1981a. Specifically, the plaintiffs al…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Spinner v. City of New York

1:01-cv-02715 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 2, 2001

Closed Date: June 4, 2004

In 2001, private attorneys representing individual plaintiffs filed several civil rights lawsuits pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The cases challenged allegedly improper strip searches and unsanitary and inhumane conditions of confinement at the Brooklyn Central Booking facility. Plaintiffs alleged that police had a blanket policy of strip searching all individuals who entered the Brooklyn Central Booking facility, regardless of th…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
In re Juvenile Justice Facilities

3:97-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 2, 1997

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2003

This case was part of the collection of § 1983 inmate cases that had been pending in the Louisiana federal courts, challenging the operation and conditions of confinement in the Louisiana prison system and in parish and city jails through Louisiana. See the cases categories PC-LA, JC-LA and JI-LA of this collection.Judge Frank J. Polozola of the U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana presided over many of the Louisiana prison and jail cases. In an effort to better manage those cases…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
O'Toole v. Cuomo & U.S. v. New York (formerly Disability Advocates Inc. (DAI) v. Pataki)

1:13-cv-04166 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 30, 2003

Case Ongoing

This Clearinghouse entry describes two closely entwined lawsuits: O'Toole v. Cuomo, U.S. v. New York, and Disability Advocates Inc. v. Pataki. On June 30, 2003, Disability Advocates, Inc. (DAI) filed a lawsuit on behalf of New York residents in large "adult homes," privately owned but state-funded facilities for individuals with mental illness or other disabilities, and on behalf of all individuals at risk of being institutionalized in adult homes. Plaintiffs filed their case in the U.S. Distr…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Cain v. New Orleans

2:15-cv-04479 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 2015

Case Ongoing

On September 17, 2015, indigent former criminal defendants filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs sued the City of New Orleans, the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court (OPCDC), the court’s judges, judicial administrators, and the city’s sheriff department, all under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Civil Rights Corps and private counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Bell v. City of Boise

1:09-cv-00540 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2009

Case Ongoing

On October 22, 2009, homeless individuals represented by Idaho Legal Services and the National Center on Homelessness and Poverty filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho against the City of Boise. The plaintiffs had been cited under a pair of Boise municipal ordinances that made it illegal to sleep or camp in public parks and other public areas, despite the lack of available beds at the city's shelters. The complaint alleged that criminalizing homelessness in t…