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Dundon v. Kirchmeier

1:16-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This is a putative class action about excessive police force used to disperse protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). On November 20, 2016, the plaintiffs– Native Americans and other concerned citizens who referred to themselves as "water protectors"--gathered to pray and protest the DAPL at Backwater Bridge in North Dakota. They were met by local police forces who were armed with specialty impact munitions, teargas, and water cannons. Without warning, the police began to use force to …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
K.C. v. The Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana

1:23-cv-00595 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 5, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case is about the constitutionality of the Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 480 (SEA 480, or the “Act”), which went into effect on July 1, 2023 and prohibits transgender minors from receiving gender transition procedures. Represented by the ACLU of Indiana, the plaintiffs included four minor children and their parents, a family medicine practice that provided care to transgender persons, and a physician who co-founded that medical practice. On April 5, 2023, they sued the individual members of …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomez v. Trump

1:20-cv-01419 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involves a dispute about visa processing. Following a March 20, 2020 decision by the State Department to cease most visa services, President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 10014 on April 20, suspending the entry of all immigrants into the U.S. for two months, unless they qualified for an exception. Two months later, the entry suspension was extended to December 31, 2020 and expanded to include temporary nonimmigrant visas in Proclamation 10052. As a result, the State Departmen…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Wallace v. Mississippi Department of Corrections

3:21-cv-00516 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a putative class action lawsuit about the Mississippi Department of Corrections’ (“MDOC”) alleged failure to provide adequate 1) medical healthcare, 2) mental healthcare, and 3) accommodations to those with disabilities.  On August 9, 2021, thirty individuals, who were in the custody of MDOC, and Disability Rights Mississippi, the designated protection and advocacy agency in Mississippi, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against MDOC,…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turner v. Wetzel

4:18-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a person serving a life sentence in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, was diagnosed with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the mid 1990s and, in this lawsuit, sought to compel the Department to provide direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment.  On January 19, 2018, plaintiff filed this action pro se in the Court of Common Pleas for Schuylkill County against various employees of the Department of Corrections ("DOC defendants") and Correct Care Solutions, the Departmen…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Nuziard v. Minority Business Development Agency

4:23-cv-00278 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 20, 2023

Closed Date: May 2, 2024

On March 20, 2023, three individual white business owners filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division under the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. § 706). Named defendants included President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (“President Biden”), Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo (“Secretary Raimondo”), and the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). They claimed that the defendant…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ramirez Medina v. Asher [later U.S. Department of Homeland Security]

2:17-cv-00218 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2023

On February 13, 2017, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) -- and believed to be the first DACA recipient detained under the Trump administration -- filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Represented by the organization Public Counsel, and by private attorneys including constitutional scholars Laurence Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, he sought a writ of habeas c…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Malam v. Adducci

5:20-cv-10829 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: A medically vulnerable immigration detainee filed this case on March 30, 2020. The detainee alleged that ongoing detention violated her due process rights because it was unlawfully punitive given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Additional detainees intervened. The court granted several releases in the form of preliminary injunctions. The court also certified a class, instituted procedures for bail applications from detainees within the class, and continued to grant temporary re…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Matsumoto v. Labrador

1:23-cv-00323 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: July 11, 2023

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenged an Idaho law that made it a crime for adults to help minors travel to other states for abortion care without their parents' knowledge and consent.  On July 11, 2023, this case was brought in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho by an individual and two organizations, Northwest Abortion Access Fund (NWAAF) and Indigenous Idaho Alliance (IIA), that sought to assist Idaho minors in obtaining reproductive health care outside of Idaho. Plaintiffs brought…
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…