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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

Closed Date: Jan. 3, 2022

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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Turkmen v. Ashcroft

1:02-cv-02307 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: April 17, 2002

Case Ongoing

Turkmen v. Ashcroft, also known as Ziglar v. Abbasi, is one of two related actions filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York by plaintiffs who were investigated and detained for suspected terrorist ties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. It was filed on April 17, 2002 as a class-action lawsuit, but the class was never certified. The case was assigned to Judge John Gleeson. (The related case, Elmaghraby v. Ashcroft (later Ashcroft v. Iqbal), was also assigned to Judge …
CHILD WELFARE
Brian A. v. Haslam

3:00-cv-00445 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: May 10, 2000

Closed Date: Feb. 25, 2019

On May 10, 2000, children in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (including a subclass of African American foster care children) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, against the state of Tennessee. The plaintiffs, represented by Children’s Rights and private counsel, sought to enjoin the state from subjecting class members to practices that violated their rights.The plaintiffs alleged that the state violated …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Sharr v. NCS Pearson, Inc.

3:02-cv-01513 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 2002

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2006

The plaintiffs in this case were former employees of Huntleigh USA Corporation who worked as screeners at Portland International Airport and were not retained as employees when airport screeners became federal employees. They filed suit individually and as a putative class on November 2, 2002, against NCS Pearson, Inc. and the Department of Transportation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Nothing in the record indicates that the suit was ever certified as a class action, bu…
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Pigford v. Glickman

1:97-cv-01978 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 1997

Case Ongoing

On August 28, 1997, three African-American farmers, on behalf of a putative class of 641 African-American farmers, filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA") under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act ("ECOA"), 15 U.S.C. § 1691, and the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"), 5 U.S.C. § 551. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and monetary relief, alleging that both the USDA and county officials to whom the USDA delegated a…