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JAIL CONDITIONS
Saddozai v. Davis

5:18-cv-05558 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2018

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations of excessive force by a correctional officer. On September 11, 2018, a prisoner in San Quentin State Prison filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against a correctional officer in San Quentin State Prison under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Originally filing pro se, the plaintiff alleged that he was attacked by other incarcerated individuals when the defendant correctional officer intervened by shooting the plaintiff se…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
National Association of Immigration Judges v. Neal

1:20-cv-00731 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case challenged a policy of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) which placed restrictions on immigration judges who wish to speak or write publicly in their personal capacities about certain topics. The 2017 policy imposed a preapproval requirement on all immigration judges who wished to speak at public events in their personal capacities. The 2020 policy, which replaced the 2017 policy, said that immigration judges were prohibited from speaking in their personal capacities …
LABOR RIGHTS
Porteous v. Flowers Foods, Inc.

6:23-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2023

Case Ongoing

In this case, a delivery driver for a baked goods company alleged that the company misclassified its delivery drivers as "independent contractors" as a shortcut to avoid paying delivery drivers overtime and benefits. Defendants were Flowers Foods, Inc., and its subsidiaries: Flowers Bakeries LLC and Flowers Baking Co. of Portland, LLC (“FBC Portland”). (Collectively, the defendants are hereinafter referred to as “Flowers Foods”). The plaintiff had worked as a delivery driver for the defendants …
EDUCATION
Malick v. Croswell-Lexington District Schools

2:22-cv-11126 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

The plaintiffs in this case alleged that their daughter’s school failed to adequately protect her from anti-Black harassment and bullying. Represented by private attorneys, the plaintiffs filed suit against the Croswell-Lexington School District and the district school board in the U.S. District Court for the District of Eastern Michigan on May 23, 2022. The plaintiffs sued under 42 USC § 1983 (based on alleged violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses), …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Wilcox v. Trump

1:25-cv-00334 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to the second Trump administration's termination of Gwynne Wilcox, the Chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to the second Trump administration, click here.) The plaintiff in this case was fired on January 27, 2025 by President Trump from her positions as Chair and member of the National Labor Relations Board, even though her term was not set to expire until 2028.  She filed this l…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Harris v. Bessent

1:25-cv-00412 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration's termination of a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board. On February 11, 2025, Cathy Harris, a duly appointed/confirmed Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She sued President Trump, the Secretary of Treasury, the Acting Chairman of the Merit System Protection Board, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Director and Deputy …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Saxena v. Noem

5:25-cv-05035 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: April 17, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. On April 17, 2025, an international student—attending school on an F-1 visa--filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota against the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Acting Director of Immigration …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Dalton v. Hao

1:23-cv-11216 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 31, 2023

Closed Date: June 20, 2023

This is a case about grant funding that favored women, people of color, and LGBTQ people.  On May 31, 2023, a white male owner of a for-profit firearms academy filed a lawsuit in the District if Massachusetts against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development and the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation (the administrator of the grant), alleging that the state's program for pandemic relief, the Inclusive Recovery Grant Program, …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Smith v. Fitzpatrick

1:18-cv-00288 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: July 26, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 2018

This case concerns the treatment of opioid addiction for incarcerated people. On July 26, 2018, the named plaintiff, represented by the ACLU of Maine, filed suit against the Commissioner of Maine Department of Corrections and the Chief Deputy and Acting Aroostook County Sheriff in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. The plaintiff, an incoming inmate at the Aroostook County Jail, alleged that despite the medical consensus that medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is the standard of…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. Delaware County

5:22-cv-01405 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 8, 2022

Closed Date: March 5, 2024

This is a case about the exclusion of an inmate from programs due to his HIV positive status.  On April 8, 2022, a named plaintiff, represented by LAMBDA Legal and the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff filed suit against Delaware County, the GEO Group, a private for-profit correctional management company that operates George W. Hill Correctional Facility (GWHC), and multiple staff members at GWHC inclu…