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PRISON CONDITIONS
Duran v. Martinez

1:77-cv-00721 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1977

Case Ongoing

On 11/15/1977, prisoners of the Penitentiary of New Mexico, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of New Mexico against the Governor of New Mexico and officials of the New Mexico Department of Corrections. In the first amended complaint, the plaintiffs alleged that "the totality of the overcrowding and other conditions at PNM fall beneath standards of human decency, inflict needless suffering on p…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Trapp v. Jackson County

4:10-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 1, 2010

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2012

This case involved a series of strip searches of female inmates at the Jackson County Jail on July 16, 2008. On June 1, 2010, two ex-inmates of the jail filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued Jackson County; the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department; the Sheriff, in his official and individual capacities; and the Jail Commander, in his official and individual capacities. Represen…
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
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…
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.
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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Texas v. Biden

4:21-cv-00579 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 22, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether the Biden Administration’s order creating an exception to regulations expelling migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic for unaccompanied minors violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Immigration Nationality Act (INA). On April 22, 2021, Texas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. They sued the President along with the agencies charged with creating and implementing the order (CDC, DHS, HHS, CBP, and ICE) fo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
State of Washington v. Trump

1:20-cv-03127 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/18/2020, Plaintiffs are WA, CO, CT, IL, MD, MI, MN, NV, NM, OR, RI, VT, WI, and VA suing Trump, DeJoy and the USPS. The complaint begins by laying out the historical importance of the post office and by describing the statutory requirements that the post office must satisfy in order to implement certain changes to mail…