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JAIL CONDITIONS
Siaki v. Darr

1:11-cv-03074 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2014

This case, filed in federal court in 2011 and settled in 2012, addressed the Adams County Sheriff’s Department and its communication with deaf individuals incarcerated in its jail. The case’s complaint described an incident in May 2010 in which law enforcement was called on two individuals engaged in an argument. Neither of the two--who became the case’s individual plaintiffs--could speak, write, or read effectively in English. When Sheriff’s deputies arrived, the plaintiffs were not able to co…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Edwards v. Beck

4:13-cv-00224 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 16, 2013

Closed Date: March 11, 2016

On April 16, 2013, two Arkansas physicians ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas challenging the Arkansas General Assembly's ban on abortion starting at twelve weeks of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights, sued fifteen members of the Arkansas State Medical Board, including the board's president, and asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent enforcement of …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Trapp v. Jackson County

4:10-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 1, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2012

This case involved a series of strip searches of female inmates at the Jackson County Jail on July 16, 2008. On June 1, 2010, two ex-inmates of the jail filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued Jackson County; the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department; the Sheriff, in his official and individual capacities; and the Jail Commander, in his official and individual capacities. Represen…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Eisen v. Cuomo

7:20-cv-05121 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 3, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2020

An independent candidate for the United States House of Representatives in New York’s 17th congressional district filed a lawsuit on July 3, 2020 in order to declare unconstitutional, enjoin, or modify New York's in-person signature requirements for candidates seeking to qualify for the November 2020 elections due to the difficulties in obtaining these signatures caused by COVID-19. The Governor of New York had issued an Executive Order to suspend the collection of signatures for petitions of c…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Ford Motor Company

1:04-cv-00845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Dec. 27, 2004

Closed Date: June 15, 2008

This case is about an apprenticeship test that had a disparate impact on Black apprenticeship applicants. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed this lawsuit on December 27, 2004, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Filing on behalf of thirteen Black individuals and a class of similarly situated Black apprenticeship test takers, the EEOC alleged that the individuals' employer, the Ford Motor Company, as well as their union, the United Automobile, Aerospac…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Helen L. v. DiDario

2:92-cv-06054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1992

Closed Date: June 7, 1996

Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit, an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) challenge to the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's refusal to provide them with in-home attendant care services rather than nursing home care, in the fall of 1992, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. There were five plaintiffs in this case (Helen L., Beverly D., Ilene F., Florence H., and Idell S.) who were joined and dismissed at various times, depending on their institutionaliza…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Disability Law Center of Alaska v. Meyer

3:20-cv-00173 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: July 20, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This case was filed on July 17, 2020 by three nonprofit advocacy groups and two individual plaintiffs in Alaska, seeking injunctive relief enjoining the state from only sending mail absentee applications to voters over 65 years old for the 2020 federal elections and a declaration that the state's policy was unconstitutional. On September 3, 2020, the court denied the plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs appealed the denial of the preliminary injuncti…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials v. Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections

1:20-cv-01587 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether Georgia's mailing of English-only absentee ballots for the June 2020 primary violated the Voting Rights Act. On April 14, 2020, several non-profit voting rights organizations filed this lawsuit in the Northern District of Georgia. They sued the Georgia Secretary of State and members of the Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections (“BORE”) for declaratory and injunctive relief under Section 203 and Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”). Section 203…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ndambi v. CoreCivic

1:18-cv-03521 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2018

Closed Date: April 12, 2021

On November 14, 2018, immigrants detained at the Cibola County Correctional Center filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. (Although the facility in question is located in New Mexico, the operator was organized as a Maryland corporation.) They sued the operator of the facility, CoreCivic, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219), the New Mexico Minimum Wage Act, and the common law doctrine of unjust enrichment. The suit …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Eilenberg v. City of Colton

8:20-cv-00767 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Closed Date: April 8, 2021

This is a case about a constitutional right to gather signatures to qualify a city ballot initiative during COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency. On April 20, 2020, the manager of a ballot initiative to allow food trucks to operate in the City of Colton, CA (which was to have appeared on the November 2020 city general election ballots) sued the city in the Central District of Californdia under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The manager proceeded pro se. At the time, California was under a stay-at-home order…