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PRISON CONDITIONS
Holmes v. Godinez

1:11-cv-02961 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 4, 2011

Case Ongoing

On May 04, 2011, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the officials at the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by a group of public and private lawyers, the plaintiffs alleged that, while in IDOC custody, they were denied the assistance they needed to effectively communicate and participate in IDOC programs and services, in violation of the Americans w…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Castaneda v. Burger King Corporation

3:08-cv-04262 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 2008

Closed Date: June 12, 2016

On September 10, 2008, a wheelchair user brought a class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of individuals with disabilities who encountered various barriers to accessibility at many of California's 92 Burger King restaurants. He alleged that inaccessible restrooms, high counters, seating areas, and other aspects of Burger King restaurants violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. § 12182(a)) and California statutes including the Un…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Busey v. Corrections Corp

4:97-cv-01995 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 31, 1997

Closed Date: 1999

On 07/31/1997, inmates at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NOCC), represented by, among others, D.C. Prisoners' Legal Services Project, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the Northern District of Ohio against The Corrections Corporation of America and the Government of the District of Columbia. NOCC is Ohio's only private prison and was used to house inmates from Washington, D.C. In 1997, twenty inmates were stabbed and two were murdered. Plaintiffs alleged injuries due to exce…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Dixon v. Weinberger

1:74-cv-00285 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 8, 1986

Closed Date: March 30, 2014

In 1974, patients confined at the Federal Mental Institution (FMI) in the District of Columbia filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed under the Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act (HMIA), 21 D.C. Code §501, against the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Mental Health Law Project, asked the court for a declaration of the following: 1) that they had a right to…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Estate of Rice ex rel. Garber v. City and County of Denver

1:07-cv-01571 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: July 25, 2007

Closed Date: 2008

On July 25, 2007, the parents of a young woman arrested for driving while under the influence of alcohol filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the County and City of Denver against the City and County of Denver, Colorado, Denver Department of Health and Hospitals. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel asked the court for declaratory relief, economic losses. compensatory and consequential damages, and punitive damages claiming under Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the defendants failed …
EDUCATION
Lopez v. S.F. Unified Sch. Dist.

3:99-cv-03260 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 6, 1999

On July 6, 1999, persons with mobility or visual impairments who were denied access to programs, services, facilities, and activities provided by the San Francisco Unified School District ("School District"), filed a class action against the School District in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs filed suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and 42 U.S.C § 1983, alleging discriminatio…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Pugh

1:02-cv-01239 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 28, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

In this prison conditions case brought in 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, a federal prisoner in the U.S. Bureau of Prison's (BOP) Florence, Colorado Administrative Maximum (ADX) Detention Unit, claimed violation of First Amendment rights in his pro se federal tort claim against BOP officials. The defendants administered 28 C.F.R. 540.20, a BOP prison regulation restricting inmates from publishing articles under their bylines. The plaintiff, represented by the Univ…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Smiley v. California Department of Education

3:01-cv-01780 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2001

Closed Date: 2004

On May 8, 2001, plaintiff students, by guardians ad litem and on behalf of all others similarly situated, and the Learning Disabilities Association of California, filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against the California Department of Education ("CDE") and Fremont Unified School District ("FUSD"). The case proceeded under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. ("the ADA"), the Rehabilitation Act of …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Batalla Vidal v. Nielsen

1:16-cv-04756 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 25, 2016, a Mexican-born Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient living in New York filed this suit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff, represented by Make the Road New York, the National Immigration Law Center, and the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, sued under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and 5 U.S.C. § 551, alleging that the revocation of his …