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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Committee For A Fair And Balanced Map v. Illinois State Board of Elections

1:11-cv-05065 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 27, 2011

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2011

This was a challenge to the congressional redistricting plan adopted by the State of Illinois after the 2010 census (the “Adopted Map”). Plaintiffs were an organization called the Committee for a Fair and Balanced Map (a not for profit organization created by Illinois citizens concerned about the congressional redistricting process in Illinois), ten incumbent Republican members, ten incumbent Republican members of Congress, and six registered voters (including some who identify themselves as La…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Grimes v. Conectiv

2:05-cv-03389 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: July 1, 2005

Closed Date: 2012

On July 1, 2005, several employees who worked at ConectIv and three sub-contractors filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs sued ConectIv, Dellovade, Steel Suppliers and Bogan/Hake, collectively known as the Defendant Employers, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Plaintiffs represented by private attorneys sought monetary damages and injunctive relief to redress their raci…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Melnik v. Aranas

2:17-cv-02378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 25, 2023

On September 5, 2017, plaintiff, a person incarcerated in the custody of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC), initiated this lawsuit (pro se, initially) by filing a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. By direction of the court, plaintiff's complaint was docketed on July 2, 2018.  Plaintiff sued the Medical Director of NDOC, alleging that he was denied treatment for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) from 2015-2017, even though he was…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Brash v. Wexford Health Source, Inc.

2:02-cv-14331 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2002

On December 6, 2002, a prisoner in Florida's Okeechobee Correctional Institution (OCI), represented by counsel from the Florida Justice Institute, sued in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment was being violated by the defendants' failure to provide him appropriate medical care. The lead defendant was Florida's contract medical service provider for OCI; als…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ptasinska v. U.S. Department of State

1:07-cv-03795 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 6, 2007

Closed Date: Nov. 1, 2007

On July 6, 2007, the plaintiff, a person lawfully present in the United States on a non-immigrant H1-B visa and represented by private counsel, filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and several individual employees of those agencies in their professional capacities regarding a change to the July 2007 Visa Bulletin’s statement about the availability of employment-based immigrant visas f…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights New York v. City of New York

1:22-cv-04493 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 1, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about challenging the inaccessibility of sidewalks in the East Mount Eden neighborhood of the Bronx, New York. On June 1, 2022, Disability Rights New York, alongside two plaintiffs representing a class of similarly affected individuals (all people with mobility and vision disabilities who use or will use sidewalks and pedestrian street crossings in the East Mount Eden neighborhood), filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
California v. The City of Huntington Beach

30-2023-01312235-CU-WM-CJC | California state trial court

Filed Date: March 8, 2023

Case Ongoing

This entry summarizes a case brought in California state court against the City of Huntington Beach, California for allegedly violating state housing laws, as well as a federal case that the City filed in response.  State Case On March 8, 2023, the Attorney General of California and the Department of Housing and Community Development filed this lawsuit in the Superior Court of the State of California in Orange County. The case was assigned to Judge Erick Larsh. The plaintiffs sued the City of H…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
PEN American Center Inc v. Escambia County School District

3:23-cv-10385 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 17, 2023

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges the decisions of Escambia County in Florida to remove and restrict certain books from public school libraries. The plaintiffs in this case included PEN America, a nonprofit organization that represents authors throughout the United States whose books have been targeted for removal or restriction; Penguin Random House, the publisher of many books targeted for removal or restriction; five authors whose books have been targeted for removal or restriction (the “Author Plaint…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case concerns a habeas petition and the due process rights of detained Iraqi Americans facing deportation to Iraq. Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition were Iraqi nationals, including many Chaldean Christians, who had resided in the United States for many years. They had been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. After the Trump Administration negotiated with Iraq in early 201…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gonzalez Torres v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

3:17-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2017

Case Ongoing

On September 11, 2017, an individual recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. He sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”). The case was assigned to District Judge Jeffrey T. Miller. Represented by private counsel, th…