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POLICING
Melendres v. Arpaio

2:07-cv-02513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2007

Case Ongoing

On December 12, 2007, a group of plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the County of Maricopa and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), as well as Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The plaintiffs sought to represent a class of Latino persons who have been or will be stopped, detained, interrogated, or searched by the Sheriff or his agents in moving or parked vehicles in Maricopa County. They alleged claims under the Fourth Amendment (search a…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

1:18-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 5, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case about Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) policies for detaining immigrants after they turned 18 who had entered the U.S. as unaccompanied minors. On March 5, 2018, two individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where it was assigned to District Judge Rudolph Contreras. They brought suit on behalf of a class of unaccompanied children who had been placed in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Ser…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hawaii v. Trump

1:17-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

The below summary is a condensed version. The full summary can be found here on the Clearinghouse website. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin filed this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 against President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants, visitors, and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a concurrent complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. Distr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Langford v. Racicot AND In Re: Conditions at Montana State Prison v. Montana

6:92-cv-00013 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 1992

Case Ongoing

This entry describes the consolidated federal class action lawsuits arising out of complaints about the treatment of prisoners in Montana State Penitentiary. The Initial Class Action SuitOn January 28, 1992, inmates at the Montana State Penitentiary filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Montana Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by poor medical care, denta…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Cook County

1:10-cv-02946 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 13, 2010

Closed Date: June 26, 2018

On February 17, 2007, the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division (DOJ), opened an investigation of the Cook County Jail, under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In July 2007, the DOJ conducted on-site inspections of the jail, interviewing staff and inmates, and on August 3, 2007, the DOJ notified jail officials of potentially life-threatening deficiencies at the jail, including grossly unsanitary conditions and inadequate emergency key precautions, w…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
McClain v. Lufkin Industries

9:97-cv-00063 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 1997

Closed Date: 2014

On February 26, 1997, African American employees of Lufkin Industries filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act against their employer. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory and equitable relief, attorneys' fees and costs, an injunction, and any other appropriate equitable relief. The plaintiffs claimed that they were discriminated against…
POLICING
Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd

1:05-cv-00093 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: March 15, 2005

Closed Date: 2015

The plaintiff in this action brought suit on 03/15/2005 against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and several other federal officials in their individual and official capacities, claiming that he was unlawfully detained and his freedom was otherwise infringed by the federal government. On March 16, 2003, the plaintiff, Al-Kidd, was arrested and detained as a material witness in a terrorism case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The underlying case was against another pe…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
Valdivia v. California Department of Health Services

2:90-cv-01226 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 1, 1990

Closed Date: March 16, 1999

On Oct. 1, 1990, two residents of California nursing homes filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California under the Medicaid Act against the California Department of Health Services. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the state had failed to comply with the recently enacted federal nursing home reform law, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1395i-3(a)-(h) and 1396r(a)-(h). The plaintiffs also requested a preliminary injunctio…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Doe v. Reed

3:09-cv-05456 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 28, 2009

Closed Date: 2012

On July 28, 2009, plaintiffs, two anonymous individuals who signed a voting petition and the group that organized the petition drive, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against the State of Washington under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, challenged the constitutionality of the state's Public Records Act as applied to the referendum process, claiming violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. They sought declara…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Doe v. Nixon

4:08-cv-01518 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2008

Closed Date: 2013

On October 8, 2008, several sex offenders in Missouri filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against the State of Missouri, several cities and counties in Missouri, and several police departments in Missouri. The plaintiffs were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Foundation and private counsel. They asked the court for a preliminary injunction that prevented the police from enforcing R.S.Mo. §589.426, which prohibits certain activi…