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JAIL CONDITIONS
Howard v. Williams

2:20-cv-01389 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about jail conditions in the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ), particularly access to mental health care for incarcerated people with psychiatric disabilities. On September 15, 2020, five individuals then incarcerated at ACJ, represented by the Abolitionist Law Center, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, and a private firm, brought this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on behalf of themselves and other persons with…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gohmert v. Pence

6:20-cv-00660 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 27, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 1, 2021

On December 27, 2020, the U.S. Representative for the 1st District of Texas, along with multiple Republican U.S. Representatives from Arizona, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against then-vice president, Mike Pence. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought expedited declaratory and emergency injunctive relief, alleging that two parts of the U.S. Constitution, the Electors Clause and Twelfth Amendment, were violated.  The plaintiffs ar…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Merz v. Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, et al.

1:14-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2014

Closed Date: May 22, 2015

This is a vocational rehabilitation services recipient’s appeal of an adverse Rehabilitation Act fair hearing decision. The plaintiff, a high school student with an intellectual disability, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on February 3, 2014, against Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities and several of its officers. Represented by counsel from Disability Rights Ohio, the plaintiff sought a reversal of the fair hearing decision that denied him partic…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

4:21-cv-09586 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging a raid against approximately 200 black incarcerated people at the Correctional Training Facility, as well as the policies and practices by which incarcerated persons in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) are “validated” as suspects, associates, or members of Security Threat Groups.    On December 13, 2021, two incarcerated individuals filed this putative class-action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and similarly situated Black incarcera…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Louhghalam v. Trump

1:17-cv-10154 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: March 20, 2017

On January 28, 2017, two lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. who were detained at Boston Logan Airport (Logan) as they were trying to return home to Massachusetts filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (in Boston). Represented by the ACLU of Massachusetts and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Secretary of DHS, the Commissioner of CBP, the Director of the…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Aziz v. Trump

1:17-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 1, 2017

On January 28, 2017, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and Mayer Brown, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs brought the action as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. They simultaneously filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order (TRO). The plaintiffs were 50 to 60 lawful permanent residen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ali v. Trump

2:17-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2018

This class action lawsuit, filed January 30, 2017, challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) ban on admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (in Seattle). Plaintiffs were represented by the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Immigration Council. The…