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JAIL CONDITIONS
Malam v. Adducci

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

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: A medically vulnerable immigration detainee filed this case on March 30, 2020. The detainee alleged that ongoing detention violated her due process rights because it was unlawfully punitive given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Additional detainees intervened. The court granted several releases in the form of preliminary injunctions. The court also certified a class, instituted procedures for bail applications from detainees within the class, and continued to grant temporary re…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Brown v. Warren

1:20-cv-07907 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 26, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class action was filed pro se by eight inmates in the Cumberland County Correctional Facility on June 26, 2020. The plaintiffs were later appointed legal counsel and, in an amended complaint, sought safety and testing remedies in light of COVID-19. On March 22, 2024, the court approved a final class action settlement that contained various COVID-19 policies as well as monitoring through 2026. This case concerns the constitutionality of the COVID-19 procedures in the Cumb…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Al Otro Lado v. Kelly

3:17-cv-02366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: July 12, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the legality of the government’s treatment of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. On July 12, 2017, a group of Honduran and Mexican asylum seekers and Al Otro Lado, a legal service organization which supports indigent deportees, refugees, and migrants, filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The pseudonymous plaintiffs fled gang-related and/or severe domestic violence and presented themselves at a Port of Entry (PO…
POLICING
Perez v. City of Chicago

1:13-cv-04531 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 20, 2013

Case Ongoing

On June 20, 2013, a man who had been arrested and detained in Chicago’s Homan Square detention center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued the City of Chicago and Chicago police officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by a private firm, the plaintiff asked the court for compensatory and punitive damages. The plaintiff claimed that the City of Chicago and the individual police officers violated his Fourth and Fourteenth Amen…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC.

2:10-cv-01283 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2010

Closed Date: May 8, 2017

On September 29, 2010, a class of male employees 50 years of age or older filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC (“PGW”) under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), 29 U.S.C. § 621. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for lost compensation in front pay and back pay, attorneys' fees and costs, declaratory and injunctive relief, lost pension benefits, and liquidated damages, c…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Orr v. Elyea

2:08-cv-02232 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case is about people with Hepatitis C who were or had been incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). Represented by private counsel, around 75 incarcerated plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois on September 29, 2008. Over the course of this decade long litigation, numerous other individual plaintiffs were joined, with the number of plaintiffs eventually growing to be around 1,800. In…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Oster v. Wagner

4:09-cv-04668 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 2009

Closed Date: 2014

On October 1, 2009, several disabled individuals requiring in-home support services filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the California Department of Health Care Services and California Department of Social Services. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendants' proposed budget cuts would threaten their ability to remain in the least restrictive settings appropriate, which would have violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Me…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duffy v. Riveland

2:92-cv-01596 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 1992

Closed Date: 2002

In 1992 and 1993, a deaf inmate incarcerated at the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe, Washington, filed two pro se suits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District Of Washington contending that prison officials failed to provide him with a qualified interpreter at prison proceedings in violation of his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 ("ADA"); the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794 ("RA"); 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (" § 1983"); and Revis…
EDUCATION
Junior Doe v. Allentown School District

2:06-cv-01926 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 5, 2006

Closed Date: 2016

On May 5, 2006, plaintiffs, individually and on behalf of their children, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Allentown School District ("ASD"), Lehigh Valley Hospital, Inc. ("LVH"), and various other parties including a minor student. The plaintiffs alleged they were sexually harassed at school and that the district officials failed to provide the plaintiffs, six- and seven-year-old African American students, with the same ade…