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JAIL CONDITIONS
Amador v. Baca

2:10-cv-01649 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 5, 2010

On March 5, 2010, two female former inmates who were imprisoned in the Century Regional Detention Facility ("CRDF"), a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ("LASD") facility, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by a civil rights law firm, the plaintiffs sued the LASD under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged violations of their Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as their equivalents under th…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nunez and United States v. City of New York

1:11-cv-05845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

On August 18, 2011, a class of incarcerated people filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment against the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC). The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and damages, claiming that DOC officers routinely inflicted wanton physical violence on prisoners and deliberately falsifi…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
One Wisconsin Institute v. Nichol

3:15-cv-00324 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 29, 2015

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2023

This is a lawsuit regarding a set of changes in Wisconsin's voter registration and election laws. On May 29, 2015, the advocacy groups of One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, as well as individual voters, filed suit in the United States Western District Court of Wisconsin, represented by Perkins Coie. The defendants in this case are members of the Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (“GAB”), a state governmental entity that oversees Wisconsin’s campaig…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lane v. Kitzhaber (later, Brown)

3:12-cv-00138 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 12, 2022

On January 25, 2012, this class action was brought by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs claimed that the State of Oregon and its Offices of Developmental Disability Services and Vocational Rehabilitation Services, along with other state agencies, violated the Americans With Disabilities Act ("ADA") and the Reha…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of California v. Trump

4:19-cv-00872 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 2, 2023

In 2018, President Donald Trump asked Congress to appropriate $5.7 billion for construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. On February 14, 2019, Congress denied that request and instead appropriated only $1.375 billion. Although President Trump signed this appropriations bill, he simultaneously declared a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act, and directed the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and the Treasury to reallocate military and other funds in order to bui…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pope v. County of Albany

1:11-cv-00736 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: June 29, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 16, 2015

This is a case alleging that an Albany County reapportionment law violated the Voting Rights Act.  On June 29, 2011, three registered minority voters in Albany County filed this suit against the County of Albany and the Albany County Board of Elections alleging that Local Law C, which apportioned the 39 single-member legislative districts of the Albany County Legislature, violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. This is because, as argued in their complaint, there were pre…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Savino v. Hodgson

1:20-cv-10617 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 27, 2020

On March 27, 2020, a class of civil immigration detainees held in two Massachusetts detention centers (Bristol County House of Corrections and C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center) filed this federal petition and complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Represented by Lawyers for Civil Rights and Yale Law School's Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, the plaintiffs sued the supervisors of their detention center, the acting Director of the Boston…
CHILD WELFARE
LaShawn A. v. Fenty

1:89-cv-01754 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 20, 1989

In 1989, Children's Rights and the ACLU filed a federal class action on behalf of children placed in foster care under the supervision of the District of Columbia's Department of Human Services (DHS), and abused and neglected children who are (or should be) known to DHS by virtue of abuse or neglect. The case asserted violations of Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, due process, the District of Columbia Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Act of 1977, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatm…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security

3:06-cv-00545 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 27, 2006

On January 27, 2006, a Muslim woman, represented by pro bono counsel, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against multiple state and federal agencies, alleging Section 1983 claims, state law tort claims, and several constitutional claims based on the inclusion of her name on government terrorist watchlists, including the No Fly List. The federal government filed a motion to dismiss based on lack of subject matter jurisdiction, claiming that jurisdi…