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PRISON CONDITIONS
Jarboe v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:12-cv-00572 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2012

Closed Date: 2015

On February 23, 2012, five Maryland state prisoners who are deaf filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland against the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and other state entities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, plaintiffs alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehab…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Alma v. Noah's Ark Processors, LLC

4:20-cv-03141 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2020

Closed Date: March 1, 2021

This is a case about a meat processing plant that refused to implement basic COVID-19 precautions such as physical distancing, face masks, sick leave, and onsite testing, despite it being a uniquely susceptible environment for COVID-19. On November 23, 2020, three former employees at Noah’s Ark meat processing plant and a doctor filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. The plaintiffs sued Noah’s Ark Processors under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
P.K. v. Tillerson

1:17-cv-01533 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2017

Case Ongoing

A group of diversity visa lottery winners and their family members filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on August 3, 2017. The defendants included the US Secretary of State and consular officials. The plaintiffs were represented by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center, and private counsel. The plaintiffs challenged the State Department’s practice of denying immigrant visas to diversity lottery winners from cou…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
CODING IN PROCESS
Dr. A v. Hochul

1:21-cv-01009 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2021

Case Ongoing

Several healthcare workers in New York brought this suit to enjoin the state of New York from enforcing its vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The healthcare workers filed their suit on September 13, 2021 in the Northern District of the U.S. District Court. They were represented by the Thomas More Society. Because the vaccine mandate did not allow religious exemptions, the health care workers alleged violations of the Free Exercise Clause, the Supremacy Clause, and the Equal Protection Cla…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Mays v. Flint

5:16-cv-11519 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2016

Closed Date: April 17, 2018

This is a suit arising out of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Plaintiffs, who sought to represent a class of Flint water users, initially filed suit in Genesee County Court in Flint on January 19, 2016. They alleged tort claims of gross negligence, fraud, assault and battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress by state officials over the course of the crisis. Plaintiffs were represented by private counsel. Specifically, they claimed that these state officials changed the City…
EDUCATION
Doe v. Hawaii

1:11-cv-00550 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2011

On August 11, 2010, the plaintiffs--deaf students who were sexually assaulted by a group of fellow students at a state-run school for the blind and deaf--brought this suit against the State of Hawaii. Represented by private counsel, and suing both individually and on behalf of a class of students sexually assaulted at the school between 2001 and 2013, they filed the case in Hawaii state court requesting damages, injunctive relief, and attorneys' fees. The lawsuit alleged a hostile environment,…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Smith

1:16-cv-01300 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2016

Case Ongoing

Whole Woman's Health and several other reproductive healthcare providers filed this lawsuit against the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on December 12, 2016. Plaintiffs were represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights as well as private counsel. The suit challenged proposed regulations published by the Texas Department of State Health Services. These proposed regulations would require embryonic and fetal tissue …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Nemes v. Bensinger

3:20-cv-00407 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: June 8, 2020

Closed Date: July 17, 2020

This is a case about the constitutionality of a reduction in the number of polling places during the June 23, 2020 primary election in Kentucky. On June 8, 2020, a Kentucky state representative and several Kentucky residents filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. They sued the governor, secretary of state, and state election officials as well as county clerks, sheriffs, and election officials in Jefferson, Fayette, Kenton, Boone, and Cam…