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PRISON CONDITIONS
Monroe v. Baldwin

3:18-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 31, 2018

Case Ongoing

On January 31, 2018, five transgender women housed in Illinois men’s prisons brought a class action suit against the governor of Illinois, the Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections (“IDOC”), IDOC’s Chief of Health Services, its Statewide Mental Health Supervisor, and two members of its Gender Identity Disorder (“GID”) Committee (GID is now clinically referred to as Gender Dysphoria). The case was assigned to Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel in the United States District Court for …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Missouri v. Biden

3:22-cv-01213 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 5, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns communication between U.S. officials and technology companies and allegations that numerous federal officials coerced social-media platforms into censoring certain social media content in violation of the First Amendment. Plaintiffs Missouri, Louisiana, and five private persons claimed that Defendants suppressed conservative-leaning free speech. On May 5, 2022, Plaintiffs, represented by Attorney Generals of Missouri and Louisiana, New Civil Liberties Alliance and private cou…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
One Wisconsin Institute v. Nichol

3:15-cv-00324 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 29, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2023

This is a lawsuit regarding a set of changes in Wisconsin's voter registration and election laws. On May 29, 2015, the advocacy groups of One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, as well as individual voters, filed suit in the United States Western District Court of Wisconsin, represented by Perkins Coie. The defendants in this case are members of the Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (“GAB”), a state governmental entity that oversees Wisconsin’s campaig…
EDUCATION
A.B. v. Hawaii State Department of Education

1:18-cv-00477 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2018

Case Ongoing

Two female student-athletes attending James Campbell High School filed a class action suit on December 6, 2018, against the school, the Hawai'i State Department of Education ("DOE"), and the Oahu Interscholastic Association ("OIA") in the U.S. District for the District of Hawai'i. Two more female student-athletes joined as named plaintiffs through an amended complaint filed on September 26, 2019. Plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Hawaii and Legal Aid at Work. The lawsuit was brought un…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections

3:14-cv-00852 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2014

Closed Date: Sept. 17, 2020

This case involved a constitutional challenge to Virginia's 2011 House of Delegates Redistricting Plan.   On December 22, 2014, 12 voters from 12 districts filed a lawsuit against the Virginia State Board of Elections and Virginia Department of Elections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  The case was considered by a three-judge panel, in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2284, comprised of Senior District Judge Robert E. Payne, District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee, and Circ…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bownes v. Washington

2:14-cv-11691 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 28, 2014

Case Ongoing

An incarcerated individual in the custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) filed this lawsuit on April 28, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals, against the Director of the MDOC and the general dentist of the MDOC (in their official capacities). MDOC policy detailed that a person became eligible for routine dental care only after being incarcerated for two years. The plaintiff alleged that t…
POLICING
United States v. City of Cleveland

1:15-cv-01046 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 25, 2015

Case Ongoing

In March 2013, following a series of highly-publicized use-of-force incidents involving the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP), the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, that focused on the CDP's use of force, including deadly force. This was the second investigation conducted by the DOJ into the CDP's practices in a little over ten years, as the DOJ had prev…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lovely H. v. Eggleston

1:05-cv-06920 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2005

Case Ongoing

On August 3, 2005, a group of people with disabilities filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York Human Resources Administration (NYHRA). The complaint was brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. §1983, alleging violation of these Acts, the Due Process Clauses of the U.S. and New York Constitutions, and New York State and City civil rights statutes and regulations. Repres…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Githieya v. Global Tel*Link

1:15-cv-00986 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 3, 2015

Case Ongoing

This is a class-action lawsuit filed by incarcerated people in Georgia against the prison phone provider Global Tel*Link Corp. The plaintiffs alleged that Global Tel*Link (GTL) illegally took money from inactive accounts belonging to incarcerated people and their families in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961, for wire fraud, the Federal Communications Act, and various state laws. Plaintiffs filed their lawsuit on April 3, 2015, represe…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ajaj v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

1:15-cv-00992 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 11, 2015

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 2015, a Muslim prisoner filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) and the Warden of Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Security Prison (“ADX”), where the plaintiff was incarcerated. Represented by the Civil Rights Clinic of the University of Denver-Sturm College of Law, the plaintiff brought his claims under Bivens and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (“RFRA”). He alleged…