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POLICING
United States v. City of Ferguson

4:16-cv-00180 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a majority-Black city in the St. Louis metro area. The shooting sparked nationwide protests and attention to police use of force and police relations Black residents. The Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, brought the case in front of a grand jury to determine whether there was probable cause to indict Wilson for his actions. But on Novem…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Cano v. City of New York

1:13-cv-03341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: June 11, 2013

Closed Date: May 11, 2018

On June 12, 2013, 21 individuals who were detained in Brooklyn Central Booking (BCB) for 10-24 hours between arrest and arraignment brought this action against the City of New York and New York Police Department (NYPD) officials in their individual and official capacities. The plaintiffs brought suit on behalf of a putative class of all individuals held in BCB between June 12, 2010 and June 12, 2013. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their Fourteenth Amendment r…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Huerta v. Ewing

2:16-cv-00397 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2016

Case Ongoing

On October 13, 2016, pretrial detainees in the Vigo County jail filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Indiana and private counsel, sued the sheriff and other officials of Vigo County under 42 U.S.C. §1983. They sought a declaratory judgment, preliminary and permanent injunction, and damages, claiming violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process clause and Fourteenth Amendment Eq…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Ebbert v. Nassau County

1:05-cv-05445 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2005

Closed Date: Dec. 22, 2013

On November 18, 2005, Plaintiffs, all women, filed a lawsuit against the Nassau County Police Department in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleging violations of the federal Equal Pay Act ("EPA"), 29 U.S.C. § 206(d), the New York State Equal Pay Act ("NYEPA"), N.Y. Lab. Law § 194, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought to have their claims designated as part of a class action suit, requested a permanent injunction against Defendan…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ruelas v. County of Alameda

4:19-cv-07637 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit concerns individuals incarcerated in Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, CA, who were allegedly forced to provide uncompensated labor for Aramark Correctional Services, LLC. When this suit was filed, Santa Rita Jail held individuals awaiting trial, individuals convicted of a crime awaiting sentencing, individuals in immigration detention, and individuals convicted of crimes serving county jail or state prison sentences. At the time of the lawsuit’s filing, Aramark Correctional Servi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Coalition on Homelessness v. City and County of San Francisco

4:22-cv-05502 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case is a challenge to San Francisco’s policies regarding homelessness. The plaintiffs, several homeless individuals and an advocacy organization allege that San Francisco has enacted anti-homelessness ordinances and statutes that criminalize the unhoused population of the city, despite lack of access to shelter beds. The plaintiffs claim that in its efforts to “solve” the homelessness crisis, the City did not invest in adequate shelter to meet the needs of its unhoused population. Instead…
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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Coca v. Dodge City, Kansas, City of

6:22-cv-01274 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

In this case, two Latino voters claimed that the at-large election system in Dodge City, Kansas, keeps Latine candidates out of office. The Dodge City Commission uses an at-large election system that allows citizens to vote for any candidate on the five-seat commission. The current method selects winners based on the total number of votes they receive instead of selecting single winners from geographic districts. The plaintiffs, Latino citizens who are registered voters in Dodge City, alleged t…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Giroir v. Leblanc

3:21-cv-00108 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections consistently over-detaining thousands of incarcerated people per year for nearly the past ten years. On February 19, 2021, an incarcerated person in DOC’s custody filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiff sued the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections and the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.…