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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Juliana v. United States

6:15-cv-01517 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2015

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the government’s constitutional duty to protect young people from environmental harms. On August 12, 2015, a group of young individuals (aged 8-19) and nonprofit organization Earth Guardians filed a complaint against the United States and various government officials in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, on behalf of themselves and future generations. The plaintiffs, represented by Wild Earth Advocates and private counsel, asserted harm from carbon dioxide po…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Chen v. GEO

3:17-cv-05769 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2017

Case Ongoing

On September 26, 2017, a former immigrant detainee of the Northwest Detention Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Judge Robert J. Bryan. The plaintiff sued The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), the for-profit corporation that operated the detention center, under state law, claiming that GEO’s policy of paying immigrant detainees involved in the federal Voluntary Work Program only $1 per day for their labor violated the Washi…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Ligas v. Maram [now Ligas v. Hamos]

1:05-cv-04331 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 28, 2005

Case Ongoing

On July 28, 2005, nine individuals with developmental disabilities filed this lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Illinois Department of Public Health in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. They alleged that they were eligible for long-term care through state-administered Medicaid Services but were forced to reside in large congregate care institutions rather than commun…
CHILD WELFARE
B.H. v. Johnson

1:88-cv-05599 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 1988

Case Ongoing

The ACLU filed this class action lawsuit in 1988 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the state of Illinois, on behalf of all children in the custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) placed somewhere other than with their parents. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Adoption Assistance Welfare Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 620-28, 670-76. The class consisted of all children who had been or would be in the custody of DCFS, a…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
W.C. v. DeBruyn

1:90-cv-00040 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Jan. 16, 1990

Closed Date: 2005

On January 16, 1990, juveniles at the Indiana Boys School, a correctional facility in Plainfield, Indiana, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all present and future students against the superintendent of the school and commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs, who were represented by Legal Services of Indiana, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Jama v. United States Immigration and Natural Service

2:97-cv-03093 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 16, 1997

Closed Date: Aug. 9, 2010

The Jama lawsuit is a companion case to the class action, Brown v. Esmor Correctional Services, Inc., No. 98-1282(DRD) and Joaquin DaSilva v. Esmor Correctional Services Incorporated, et al., No. 96-3755(DRD), which were also pending in to U.S. District Court District of New Jersey. All three cases, Jama, Brown and DaSilva were filed on behalf of undocumented aliens who were detained at a facility that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (''INS'') maintained in Elizabeth, New Jersey pend…
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

On April 13, 2020, a group of 34 civil immigration detainees at three Florida detention centers within the jurisdiction of the Miami Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) filed this federal class action lawsuit and petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Petitioners were represented by University of Miami School of Law’s immigration clinic, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Rapid Defense Network, Legal Aid S…