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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
C.M. v. United States

2:19-cv-05217 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 19, 2019, five asylum-seeking parents, on their own behalf and on behalf of their minor children, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the American Immigration Council, sought monetary relief and attorneys fees. The plaintiffs alleged that the United States government caused intentio…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Isaacson v. Horne

2:12-cv-01501 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: July 12, 2012

Closed Date: April 15, 2014

On July 12, 2012, three board-certified obstetricians and gynecologists in Arizona ("the plaintiffs") filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona challenging an Arizona law that would have banned abortions beginning at 20 weeks of pregnancy. Violation of the state law would have been a Class 1 misdemeanor punishable by up to sixth months imprisonment as well as physician license suspension or revocation. The plaintiffs sued the Arizona attorney general, the county att…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner, Indiana State Department of Health

1:16-cv-00763 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: April 7, 2016

Case Ongoing

This case challenged new abortion restrictions in Indiana. On April 7, 2016, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) and two medical professionals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued the Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health, the prosecutors of Marion, Lake, Monroe, and Tippecanoe Counties, and the individual members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana, all in their official capacities. Represe…
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ali v. Trump

2:17-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2018

This class action lawsuit, filed January 30, 2017, challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) ban on admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (in Seattle). Plaintiffs were represented by the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Immigration Council. The…
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…