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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners

3:11-cv-00123 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2016

This is a case about the whether at-large election methods violated the Voting Rights Act. In an at-large voting system, members of a governing body are elected by majority vote to represent an entire population, rather than a subset of that population as in a district voting system. In Fayette County, Georgia, members of the Board of Commissioners and Board of Education were elected using an at-large method, with the effect of diluting the strength of a subset of the county: Black voters who l…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction

1:17-cv-00151 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 6, 2017

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff in this case is a transgender, Native American woman. She was incarcerated at facilities run by the Idaho Department of Corrections. Despite multiple attempts at self-castration, the Idaho Department of Corrections and its employees had denied her medically necessary care, refused to transfer her, and failed to provide accommodations for her to express her gender identity. The defendants refused to provide the plaintiff with hormone treatment and gender confirmation surgery. Becau…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nunez and United States v. City of New York

1:11-cv-05845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

Case Ongoing

On August 18, 2011, a class of incarcerated people filed this lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment against the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC). The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and damages, claiming that DOC officers routinely inflicted wanton physical violence on prisoners and deliberately falsified re…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Morgan v. U.S. Soccer Federation

2:19-cv-01717 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 8, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Women’s National Soccer Team (WNT) suing the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) for gender discrimination. On March 8, 2019, members of the WNT filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the USSF under the Equal Pay Act (EPA), 29 U.S.C. § 206(d) et seq., and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. Represented by Winston & Strawn LLP, the plaintiffs sought damages…
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 …
PUBLIC HOUSING
Christian Community Action v. Cisneros

3:91-cv-00296 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: June 3, 1991

Closed Date: Jan. 28, 2008

On June 3, 1991, plaintiffs brought this action under the Fair Housing Act. Plaintiffs alleged a housing demolition and replacement plan for the former Elm Haven high-rises in New Haven was being carried out in violation of the Fair Housing Act and HUD siting requirements, as the local housing authority began to locate replacement housing in segregated neighborhoods. The Court approved the parties' settlement agreement in July 1995. The settlement consisted of two primary elements: 1) a scatte…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Ray v. Judicial Corrections Services

2:12-cv-02819 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2012

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2020

On August 28, 2012, three Alabama residents filed a federal class lawsuit against the city of Childersburg, Alabama and the private, for-profit law enforcement company the city used to collect law-enforcement related fines, costs, and fees. The plaintiffs sued in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, seeking a declaratory judgment and an injunction. They asserted claims under both federal and state law. Public Justice, Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, and private counsel re…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Ryan

2:15-cv-02245 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 6, 2015

Case Ongoing

Prison Legal News produces a monthly publications and books that are mailed to subscribers within the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC). On November 6, 2015, Prison Legal News filed this § 1983 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Arizona against the ADOC alleging violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that ADOC's refusal to deliver issues of the monthly publication to inmates when the publication contained articles with "non-selacious de…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Malam v. Adducci

5:20-cv-10829 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: In this case filed March 30, 2020, by a particularly vulnerable immigration detainee, the Court granted release on April 5, holding that ongoing detention was unlawfully punitive given the grave threat posed by detention during the coronavirus pandemic. Additional detainees intervened, and the Court has granted additional releases and has converted the TROs ordering releases into preliminary injunctions. The Court certified a class, instituted procedures for bail applications …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
O'Donnell v. Harris County

4:16-cv-01414 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 19, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 19, 2016, a 22-year-old detainee filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Harris County, Texas and the Harris County Sheriff's Department. The plaintiff, represented by Equal Justice Under Law, claimed that the bail system violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Constitution. Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that after being arrested on May 18, 2016, for driving with an invalid licens…