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PRISON CONDITIONS
Adams & Knights v. Kentucky

3:14-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 2014

Closed Date: Dec. 24, 2020

On January 1, 2014, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners in the Kentucky prison system filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated against the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Kentucky Department of Corrections, several other departments of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and by the Washington Lawyers' Committee Prisoners Rights Project, alleged violations of the America…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Physician's Services, Inc.

5:05-cv-00393 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2005

Closed Date: 2010

The Louisville and Indianapolis District Offices of the EEOC filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The defendant was Physicians Services, P.S.C. The complaint alleged that one of the four complainants was harassed on the basis of her sex and disability. When she complained, she was allegedly constructively discharged. The other three complainants were all allegedly forced to resign as a result of complaining on behalf of the first complainant. The …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:19-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky filed a lawsuit to challenge two Kentucky laws: one banned on abortion at 6-weeks of pregnancy, and the other law banned abortion based on the specific reasons for the person’s decision, such as a fetal diagnosis. 
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC.

2:10-cv-01283 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2010

Closed Date: 2017

On September 29, 2010, a class of male employees 50 years of age or older filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), 29 U.S.C. § 621, against Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for lost compensation in front pay and back pay, attorneys' fees and costs, declaratory and injunctive relief, lost pension benefits, and liquidated damages, claimin…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Money v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02093 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 1, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action brought on behalf of prisoners in the Illinois Department of Corrections seeking various types of relief in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs alleged that as people in groups who are particularly vulnerable to the virus, they were exposed to a heightened risk of COVID-19. On April 10, the judge denied the plaintiffs' request for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on May 20. The parties re…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Feenstra v. Sigler

19-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case alleged that the Oklahoma court system unconstitutionally imposed fines at sentencing without consideration for an individual's ability to pay the fines assessed. The plaintiffs in this case further alleged that the courts violated their due process and equal protection rights, as well as their right to counsel, based on the "cost docket" procedures and the possible penalty of incarceration for failure to pay outstanding fines. The plaintiffs were three indigent individuals who were f…
POLICING
Wood v. De Blasio

1:20-cv-10541 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 14, 2020

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff, a 31-year-old resident of Queens, New York, brought this lawsuit against the City of New York and the New York City Police Department on December 14, 2020 in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleged that NYPD officers, with the approval of their supervisors, regularly used excessive force against and falsely arrested peaceful protesters during the widespread racial justice protests that took place in the summer of 2020. The plaintiff specifically alleged that on J…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Edgar v. Coats

8:19-cv-00985 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 2, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the government’s prepublication review (PPR) regime which exposed intelligence-agency employees and military personnel to possible sanction if they wrote or spoke about their government service without first obtaining the government’s approval. On April 2, 2019, five former employees of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Department of Defense filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rouser v. White

2:93-cv-00767 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 7, 1993

Case Ongoing

On May 7, 1993, a Wiccan prisoner incarcerated by the California Department of Corrections since 1979 filed a lawsuit against prison officials in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and California state law. The plaintiff, represented pro se and sometimes by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the prison officials had violated his right to fr…