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PRISON CONDITIONS
Montoya v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:20-cv-03345 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

Case Ongoing

On November 9, 2020, a blind woman incarcerated in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued CDOC, its Executive Director, and thirteen other staff members. She alleged that defendants violated the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, CRIPA, CDOC Administrative Regulations as well as her constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and against cruel and unusual…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rogers v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:16-cv-02733 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2016

Case Ongoing

On November 3, 2016, a woman incarcerated in the custody of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued the State of Colorado, the Colorado Department of Corrections, and the Warden of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking damages. She claimed that defendants violated the ADA as well as her constitutional rights to du…
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
Aziz v. Trump

1:17-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 1, 2017

On January 28, 2017, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and Mayer Brown, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs brought the action as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. They simultaneously filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order (TRO). The plaintiffs were 50 to 60 lawful permanent residen…
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
Louhghalam v. Trump

1:17-cv-10154 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: March 20, 2017

On January 28, 2017, two lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. who were detained at Boston Logan Airport (Logan) as they were trying to return home to Massachusetts filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (in Boston). Represented by the ACLU of Massachusetts and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Secretary of DHS, the Commissioner of CBP, the Director of the…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Jock v. Sterling Jewelers, Inc.

1:08-cv-02875 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 18, 2008

Case Ongoing

On March 18, 2008, sixteen current and former female employees of Sterling Jewelers, Inc., filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Sterling, a large jewelry retailer. The case was assigned to District Judge Jed Sol Rakoff. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued under under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000e), the Equal Pay Act (29 U.S.C. § 206(d)), and the Age Discrimination in Employm…
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Simpson-Vlach v. Michigan Department of Education

5:21-cv-11532 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)Parents of special needs children covered by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act brought this class action against the State of Michigan and local education agencies alleging that the defendants failed to provide adequate services to their children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Singleton v. Cannizzaro

2:17-cv-10721 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 17, 2017

Case Ongoing

On October, 17, 2017, eight residents of Louisiana who were victims of or witnesses to crimes filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, alleging that they had been jailed or threatened with jail by prosecutors in hopes of ensuring their testimony in court. They sued the District Attorney of Orleans Parish along with several assistant district attorneys under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and Civil Rights Corps,…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Northwestern Human Services

2:04-cv-04531 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2004

Closed Date: 2009

In September 2004, the Philadelphia District Office of the EEOC brought this lawsuit against Northwestern Human Services, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. We do not have a copy of the complaint. Therefore, the exact allegations involved are unknown. However, it appears from the charging parties' complaint and from the Court Order granting intervention to a second group of charging parties that the complaint alleged that the defendant discriminated aga…