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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Harriet Tubman Freedom Fighters v. Lee

4:21-cv-00242 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

Four lawsuits were filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Florida challenging 2021 Florida Senate Bill 90 (SB 90), an omnibus bill that significantly restricted vote-by-mail in the state. The bill also restricted voter registration activity by third-party organizations. Harriet Tubman Freedom Fighters was the fourth lawsuit filed, following League of Women Voters of Florida Inc. v. Lee, Florida State Conference of Branches and Youth Units of the NAACP v. Lee, and Florida Risin…
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

Case Ongoing

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…
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…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
U.S. ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, Inc. v. Westchester Co.

1:06-cv-02860 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 12, 2006

Closed Date: July 30, 2021

On April 12, 2006, the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York ("ADC") filed this lawsuit under the False Claims Act against Westchester County in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. In False Claims Act cases, sometimes called "qui tam" actions, the private instigator of the case is called the "relator"; the plaintiff is the United States, and the relator seeks damages because of harm caused to the United States; by statute, those damages go mostly the federal …
NATIONAL SECURITY
Elhady v. Piehota

1:16-cv-00375 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 6, 2016

Case Ongoing

On April 5, 2016, a group of Muslim-American U.S. citizens represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (in Alexandria). Judge Anthony J. Trenga was assigned to the case. Defendants included the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), the Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”), and the National Counterterrorism Center (“NCC”). Seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, the plaintiffs alleged …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

1:18-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 5, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case about Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) policies for detaining immigrants after they turned 18 who had entered the U.S. as unaccompanied minors. On March 5, 2018, two individual plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where it was assigned to District Judge Rudolph Contreras. They brought suit on behalf of a class of unaccompanied children who had been placed in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Ser…
CHILD WELFARE
Olivia Y. v. Barbour

3:04-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 30, 2004

Case Ongoing

On March 30, 2004, children in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Human Service's Division of Family and Children's Services, on behalf of abused and neglected children in the State of Mississippi, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Division of Family and Children's Services (DFCS) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private and public counsel, the plaintiffs ask…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Tennessee

2:92-cv-02062 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 1992

Closed Date: 2015

In December of 1990, the United States Department of Justice, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et al, investigated the Arlington Developmental Center (ADC) in Tennessee. The investigation revealed that conditions in the facility seriously threatened the health and safety of its developmentally delayed residents. The Department of Justice found that residents were subject to abuse and neglect, inadequate medical care, an unsafe physical en…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Moeller v. Taco Bell

4:02-cv-05849 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2002

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

On December 17, 2002 plaintiffs, California residents with disabilities that required them to rely on wheelchairs or scooters for mobility, filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton) against Taco Bell Corporation. Plaintiffs, represented by the Impact Fund and private counsel, claimed the Defendant denied them, on the basis of disability, full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, ad…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Peterson v. Seagate US LLC

0:07-cv-02502 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: May 25, 2007

On May 25, 2007, employees terminated by the defendant, Seagate, LLC, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 USC §2201. Plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys, asked the court for declaratory relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act relating to the enforceability of a purported release and waiver signed by many of the Plaintiffs upon their termination. P…