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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gayle v. Meade

1:20-cv-21553 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 13, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class action lawsuit for declaratory, injunctive and habeas relief, brought on behalf of detainees in civil immigration detention at three ICE detention centers in Florida. The petitioners sought a writ of habeas corpus, requesting the immediate release of all individuals in custody, as well as a declaration that continued detention violated the Due Process Clause, and an order prohibiting the respondents from placing new detainees in detention. The court partially grante…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Braggs v. Dunn

2:14-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On June 17, 2014, prisoners and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, ADAP, and private counsel, the plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief. They claimed that ADOC…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hernandez v. County of Monterey

5:13-cv-02354 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 23, 2013

Case Ongoing

On May 23, 2013, prisoners and recently released prisoners from Monterey County Jail filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Monterey and the California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, the ACLU National Prison Project, the Monterey Public Defender, and private attorneys…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Gilman v. Brown

2:05-cv-00830 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 7, 2005

Closed Date: 2017

On April 7, 2005, a California state prisoner serving a life sentence with possibility of parole file a pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against members of the Board of Parole Hearings (formerly the Board of Prison Terms and Parole) and the governor of California, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants maintained a review practices violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth…
POLICING
U.S. v. City of Detroit, Michigan

2:03-cv-72258 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 12, 2003

Closed Date: 2016

On June 12, 2003, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Detroit. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 14141, the DOJ alleged a pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct by officers of the Detroit Police Department (DPD), including the excessive use of force, false arrest, improper warrantless searches and failure to protect detainees. Contemporaneously with the filing o…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
Best v. Grant County

04-00189 | Washington state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2004

Closed Date: 2013

On December 21, 2004, three indigent criminal defendants with felony cases pending in the Grant County, Washington Superior Court, along with an individual taxpaying resident of Grant County, filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the Superior Court of Kittitas County, challenging the constitutionality of the public defense system in Grant County. Plaintiffs claimed that Grant County: (1) failed to establish a public defense system that provided effective assistance of co…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jones'el v. Berge

3:00-cv-00421 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2000

Closed Date: 2008

On September 25, 2000, prisoners confined at the Supermax Correctional Institution in Boscobel, Wisconsin, and the Waupun Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against those prisons. The plaintiffs, represented by court appointed counsel and the University of Wisconsin School of Law, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that their va…