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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Black Polaski v. Stein

7:24-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2024

Case Ongoing

In January 2024, two paralegals and the non-profit North Carolina Justice for All Project, filed this lawsuit challenging North Carolina's prohibition on nonlawyers providing any legal advice. The plaintiffs, represented by the Institute for Justice and private counsel, claimed the prohibition prevented them from providing simple legal advice to North Carolinians about how to properly fill in common, court-created legal forms. They sued under 42 USC § 1983, alleging that the ban violated their …
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, …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-10676 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: March 23, 2025

Case Ongoing

This class action challenges Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deportations of noncitizens to countries that are not their designated country of removal, without first providing opportunity demonstrate their fear of persecution, torture, and even death in those third countries. Four anonymous class plaintiffs, all noncitizens from Central America and currently residing in Massachusetts, filed this lawsuit on March 23, 2025 in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusett…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
West Alabama Women's Center v. Marshall

2:23-cv-00450 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 31, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case is the result of a consolidation of two lawsuits about reproductive rights in Alabama. On July 31, 2023, the Alabama Women's Center and the West Alabama Women's Center, two reproductive health care facilities, filed their lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. On the same day, the Yellowhammer Fund, a reproductive rights organization, filed a similar lawsuit in the same court. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the Lawyering Project, and …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Chen v. GEO

3:17-cv-05769 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2017

Case Ongoing

On September 26, 2017, a former immigrant detainee of the Northwest Detention Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Robert J. Bryan. The plaintiff sued The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), the for-profit corporation that operated the detention center, under state law, claiming that GEO’s policy of paying immigrant detainees involved in the federal Voluntary Work Program only $1 per day for their labor violated the Washi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hammond v. Department of Corrections

1:25-cv-00048 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: March 4, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the unlawful use of solitary confinement within the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. On March 4, 2024, six named individuals represented by the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project and the Abolitionist Law Center filed a class action lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The case was presided over by Judge Timothy J. Savage. The plaintiffs sought to represent multiple cl…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chicago Women in Trades v. Trump

1:25-cv-02005 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Trump’s Executive Orders 14151 and 14173, which aimed to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. The plaintiffs were the Chicago Women in Trades (CWIT), a nonprofit organization that supports women entering skilled trades. They filed suit on February 26, 2025 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Department o…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Concord Community Schools

3:15-cv-00463 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2015

Closed Date: March 6, 2017

This case challenged a public high school’s annual Christmas show, which featured a nativity scene, on First Amendment grounds.  On October 7, 2015, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the separation of church and state, and several of its members (Plaintiffs) filed this lawsuit against Concord Community Schools (Defendant), a public school corporation that operated several schools in Indiana, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of India…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Heredia Mons v. McAleenan

1:19-cv-01593 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 30, 2019, asylum seekers detained under the jurisdiction of the New Orleans ICE Field Office filed this class action lawsuit under the Administrative Procedure Act and 28 U.S.C.§§ 1361 and 1651 against the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); the Acting Director of ICE; the Acting Executive Associate Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations; and the Acting Director of the New Orleans ICE Field Office. Represented by the ACLU of Louisiana and Southern P…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lang v. Taylor

4:20-cv-00030 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about conditions in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, MS (Parchman). Parchman is Mississippi's only maximum security prison and houses over 2,600 prisoners. Parchman has long had staffing shortages, leading to what the complaint calls "abhorrent conditions, abuse and constant violence, inadequate health care and mental health care, and overuse of isolation." The case is a "sister case" to, and was eventually consolidated with, Amos v. Hall, (N.D. Miss 4:20-cv-00007)…