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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings

3:20-cv-02731 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action lawsuit brought on April 20, 2020, by seven individuals in immigration detention at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility (MVDF) and the Yuba County Jail (YCJ), seeking immediate release from unsafe conditions of the jail in light of the global coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the request for TRO on April 29, requiring ICE to provide information and access to detainees to facilitate a process of considering bail requests. On June 9, the court granted …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
A.I.I.L. v. Sessions

4:19-cv-00481 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2019

Case Ongoing

On October 3, 2019, noncitizen children and their parents filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, challenging the Trump Administration's separation of asylum seeker families. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU Immigrant Rights Project, sued various personnel from five federal departments: the Department of Justice (DOJ), the White House, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and the Office …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ahlman v. Barnes

8:20-cv-00835 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 30, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class-action lawsuit, brought by people incarcerated in the Orange County Jail, argued that the county and the sheriff violated the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act by failing to provide adequate care amidst the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the motion for provisional class-certification and partially granted a temporary restraining order, but the defendants appealed and the Supreme Court stay…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Missouri v. Biden

4:21-cv-01329 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: In this case, several states sued to block the federal vaccine mandate which required Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to become vaccinated prior to December 6, 2021. The judge granted the preliminary injunction on November 29, 2021, which enjoined the defendants from implementing the vaccination requirements in the states party to the lawsuit. The defendants appealed to the Eighth Circuit and moved for a stay of the injunction, which was denied by the …
POLICING
Blanchard v. City of Memphis

2:17-cv-02120 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

On February 22, 2017, four plaintiffs filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, against the City of Memphis, Tennessee for violating their First Amendment rights. The plaintiffs all found themselves on a “black list” created by the Memphis Police Department. They argued that the police department created the “black list,” which consisted of 81 individuals, by recording video protests of City Hall. The black list appeared to denote the individuals who the …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
S.A. et al v. Trump

3:18-cv-03539 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 13, 2018

Case Ongoing

Applicants and beneficiaries of the Central American Minors (CAM) parole program filed this class-action lawsuit on June 13, 2018, challenging the Trump Administration's termination of the program and its revocation of parole for nearly 3,000 children. Seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as that the defendants be equitably estopped, the plaintiffs alleged that the termination of the program violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), regulations promulgated by the Department…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fugazi v. Padilla

2:20-cv-00970 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 12, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2020

This is a case about voting accessibility in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 12, 2020, the plaintiffs filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the Secretary of State of California and the San Joaquin County Registrar of Votes. The plaintiffs, 36 individuals registered to vote in San Joaquin County, sued under the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as the Fir…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Progeny v. City of Wichita

6:21-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: April 15, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the Wichita Police Department’s (WPD) usage of gang lists, alleging that they imposed a disparate impact on Black and Latinx residents and that they were unconstitutional in their implementation. The plaintiffs, Progeny (a community based organization seeking to prevent the incarceration of young people) and private individuals within Wichita who had been impacted by these policies, were represented by Kansas Appleseed Center for Law & Justice and the ACLU of Kansas. …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause Rhode Island v. Gorbea

1:20-cv-00318 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 23, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 24, 2021

Rhode Island state law required mail voters to have either two lay witnesses or one notary sign their mail-in ballot envelopes. On July 23, 2020, the League of Women Voters, Common Cause Rhode Island, and three Rhode Island residents concerned about their heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island challenging this state law as applied to 2020 elections in Rhode Island. The plaintiffs, represented by c…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

1:17-cv-02596 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 18, 2020

On December 5, 2017, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIPNLG) brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The plaintiff, a nonprofit organization promoting immigrants' rights, sought information on the defendants' use of mobile biometric devic…