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PRISON CONDITIONS
Martinez-Brooks v. Easter

3:20-cv-00569 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 27, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 31, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This was a class action brought in 2020 by prisoners held at the Federal Correctional Center (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, seeking immediate release or home confinement of medically vulnerable individuals and implementation of safety measures to lower the risk of COVID-19. It settled in July 2020 and the settlement expired after fifteen months. On April 27, 2020, four individuals held at the Federal Correctional Center (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut filed this putative class …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Reed-Pratt v. Winfrey

3:20-cv-12129 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/01/2020, Plaintiff sued City Clerk for the City of Detroit, Detroit Department of Elections, and Detroit Election Commission for violating her procedural and substantive due process rights by mailing of an unsolicited absentee voter application. Plaintiff voted in person in the August 4, 2020 democratic primary election…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Chatman v. Otani

1:21-cv-00268 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: June 9, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2021

This class action lawsuit, brought in 2021 by persons incarcerated or detained in Hawai'i correctional facilities, alleged that the conditions in the state's jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic had contributed to multiple COVID-19 outbreaks and sought implementation of health and safety protocols. On June 8, 2021, this case was removed from Hawaii’s First Circuit Court to the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. On June 9, plaintiffs filed their first amended class action …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Tawfeeq v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:17-cv-00353 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 11, 2017

This case was different from many of the other cases in the Travel Ban collection, as it challenged the legality of the executive order as applied to lawful permanent residents, instead of arguing that the executive order was invalid on its face. On January 30, 2017, a lawful permanent resident (LPR) of the U.S., represented by private counsel, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (in Atlanta). The plaintiff claimed that U.S. Customs and Border Patr…
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Simpson-Vlach v. Michigan Department of Education

5:21-cv-11532 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)Parents of special needs children covered by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act brought this class action against the State of Michigan and local education agencies alleging that the defendants failed to provide adequate services to their children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Heredia v. Landreman

3:19-cv-00338 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Wisconsin's application of life-with-parole sentences for juvenile offenders. On April 30, 2019, the plaintiffs, a group of individuals who were sentenced to life with the possibility of parole while they were juveniles, filed this class action lawsuit in the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and the Wisconsin Parole Commission. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU of Wisconsin, the plaintiffs sought decl…
POLICING
United States of America v. County of Los Angeles

2:15-cv-03174 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 28, 2015

Case Ongoing

The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division initiated a civil investigation of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department on August 19, 2011. The investigation focused on allegations of unconstitutional conduct by deputies at two stations located in the Antelope Valley cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, California. The DOJ proceeded under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,42 U.S.C. § 14141 (Section 14141), and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,42 U.S.C. § 2000d…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gary v. Virginia Department of Elections

1:20-cv-00860 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 27, 2020

Case Ongoing

A voter with print disabilities, along with the National Federation for the Blind of Virginia and the American Counsel of the Blind of Virginia, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on July 27, 2020, where it was assigned to Judge Claude M. Hilton. They sued the Virginia Department of Elections, the Virginia Board of Elections, and the Virginia Secretary of Elections. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendants violate…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Swenson v. Bostelmann

3:20-cv-00459 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 18, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2021

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of December 20, 2020, Action by group of citizens alleging denial of right to vote in 4/7/20 Wisconsin Presidential Primary and Spring Election. Complaint seeks damages and injunctive and declaratory relief to establish reasonable, disability accessible, and constitutionally sufficient voting procedures (including mail voting…
CHILD WELFARE
Wyatt B. v. Brown

6:19-cv-00556 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

On April 16, 2019, ten children in the custody of the Oregon Department of Human Services filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Oregon, the Director of the Oregon Department of Child Welfare, and the Oregon Department of Human Services along with its director, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (42 U.S.C. § 12131(2)), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 USC…