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PRISON CONDITIONS
Thorpe v. Virginia Department of Corrections

2:20-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: May 6, 2019

On May 6, 2019, twelve prisoners at the Red Onion and Wallens Ridge supermax prisons, who had each been in solitary confinement for between two and twenty-three years, filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs sued the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and the wardens of both Red Onion and Wallens Ridge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 19…

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CHILD WELFARE
Dwayne B. v. Snyder

2:06-cv-13548 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2006

A class of children in foster care custody in Michigan, represented by Children's Rights, filed this class action suit against the state of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on August 8, 2006. They alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments; federal law including the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq.; and state law. The compla…
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

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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Powers v. McDonough

2:22-cv-08357 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2022

This is a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Veterans' Affairs for allegedly failing to provide sufficient housing to veterans in L.A. County. On November 15, 2022, fourteen unhoused veterans with severe disabilities sued VA Secretary Denis Richard McDonough as well as several senior VA officials for the Los Angeles region in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by the public interest law firm Public Counsel, the plaintiffs sued under the Rehab…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baxley v. Jividen

3:18-cv-01526 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

On December 18, 2018, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at West Virginia's Western Regional Jail, filed a pro se complaint against the jail in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The plaintiff alleged that he had been exposed to unsanitary conditions in the jail, including a lack of clean clothes, filthy showers, and inmates with staph and other infections. The case was assigned to Judge Robert C. Chambers. On April 25, 2019, two cases were consolidated with thi…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Husted

2:06-cv-00896 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Oct. 24, 2006

Closed Date: March 28, 2018

On October 24, 2006, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless ("NEOCH") and Service Employees International Union ("SEIU") filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against the State of Ohio. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought preliminary and permanent injunctive relief and declaratory relief challenging numerous aspects of Ohio's comprehensive voter-identification law set forth in Ohio's House Bill 3. The pla…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Rosie D. v. Romney

3:01-cv-30199 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2001

On October 31, 2001, the Center for Public Representation, the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee, and a private law firm filed a class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1396, against the Governor of Massachusetts and other state officials, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Rosie D. and eight other Medicaid-eligible children, aged 6 to 15, who were hospitalized or at risk of hospitalization due to a lack of home-based services. The class…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Moore v. Chertoff

1:00-cv-00953 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 3, 2000

On May 3, 2000, ten black current and former special agents of the United States Secret Service filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a (the Civil Rights Act of 1991) against the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit individually and on behalf of a putative…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Garcia v. Vilsack

1:00-cv-02445 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2000

Closed Date: 2014

On October 13, 2000, a group of Hispanic farmers and ranchers filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("USDA") in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleged that the "USDA ha[d] maintained, and continue[d] to maintain, a system of administering its farm credit and non-credit benefit programs that gives virtually unfettered discretion to local officials to enforce highly subjective eligibility criteria that, in…
CHILD WELFARE
S.W. v. City of New York

1:09-cv-01777 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 29, 2009

Closed Date: 2017

On April 29, 2009, ten former foster children with special needs sued the City of New York and four private foster care agencies in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs asserted a § 1983 claim for violation of their substantive due process rights and asserted a state law claim for negligence for allowing a foster parent family to fraudulently obtain foster care custody of children, adopt them, and subject them to abuse, neglect, torture, imprisonment, and d…