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POLICING
Urquidi v. City of Los Angeles

22STCP0400 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Los Angeles’s cash bail policy, which allowed the city and county of Los Angeles to demand cash bail from arrestees who had not yet been arraigned. On November 14, 2022,  six arrestees who had been held in jail awaiting a judicial determination on the conditions of their release pending further judicial proceedings filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated, seeking a preliminary injunction. They filed in California state court under § 1983 and …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Oregon v. Trump

1:25-cv-00077 | U.S. Court of International Trade

Filed Date: April 23, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged President Trump’s unilateral imposition under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, China, and 57 other countries. No President has ever before cited IEEPA—which was enacted in 1977—to impose tariffs. The powers granted to the President by IEEPA can be leveraged only to respond to “an unusual or extraordinary threat,” which the plaintiffs alleged did not exist when the tariffs were instituted in February 2025. Add…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Demontray Hunter v. Kimberly Boswell, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental Health

2:16-cv-00798 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenged the failure of the state of Alabama to provide court-ordered inpatient mental evaluations that are used to determine competency to stand trial, and to provide competency restoration treatment to persons committed to its custody in a timely manner. In their complaint, Plaintiffs alleged that pretrial detainees remained incarcerated in a county jail for up to eight months after a court order committing them to the Department for treatment or evaluation, in jails that are…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
R. v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services

1:17-cv-02332 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging the child welfare system in Pennsylvania.  On December 18, 2017, six children with disabilities in Pennsylvania's foster care system filed a putative class action against the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (“PDHS”) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Represented by Disability Rights Pennsylvania, plaintiffs alleged that the state failed to provide children with mental health disabilities with adequate services and support in …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Pierce v. County of San Francisco

4:19-cv-07659 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 5, 2022

This case concerns allegations by pretrial detainees of insufficient access to sunlight, fresh air, and recreation time, as well as being subjected to illegal strip searches. On November 21, 2019, the Plaintiff, a pretrial detainee, filed a putative class action complaint on behalf of herself and all other similarly situated inmates in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the County of San Francisco (“County”), as well as named and unnamed officials and employ…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Davey v. Pierce County Council

3:21-cv-05068 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Closed Date: May 30, 2023

This case involves allegations of inhumane conditions in Washington's Pierce County Jail relating to plumbing problems and sewage backups. This lawsuit was initiated on January 25, 2021 when plaintiff filed a pro se complaint in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington against Pierce County and individuals at the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. (The complaint was filed on behalf of two plaintiffs, but the court later dismissed one and ordered each to file their own indiv…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corporation

1:19-cv-02462 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 18, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about a public-school corporation’s policy requiring teachers to call transgender students by their preferred name based on an official database. Brownsburg Community School Corporation (BCSC) established a policy allowing students to change their name in the official student database at the request of the student, their parents, and a health care provider. Once entered, teachers would then be required to call the student by their preferred name. The plaintiff, a Christian teacher …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Brown v. Yost

2:24-cv-01401 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: March 27, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case concerns whether Ohio’s ballot initiative process violated the First Amendment by allowing the Attorney General to repeatedly block a proposed state constitutional amendment. On March 27, 2024, three Ohio voters filed this lawsuit after Ohio Attorney General David Yost rejected the summary of their proposed amendment, Protecting Ohioans’ Constitutional Rights—for the seventh time. The proposed amendment created a private cause of action to sue state officials for constitutional rights…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Meriwether v. Hartop

1:18-cv-00753 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2018

Closed Date: April 14, 2022

This lawsuit involves a First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment challenge to disciplinary policies at Shawnee State University. On November 5, 2018, a Shawnee State University philosophy professor sued the following entities and individuals at the University: the Trustees; the Interim President (also the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs); Acting Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences; Chair of the Department of English and Humanities; Title IX Coordinator; Deputy Title IX Coordin…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Thompson v. Trump

1:21-cv-00400 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the violent insurrection and disruption of Congress on January 6, 2021, while Congress approved the results of the Electoral College in order to elect the next President and Vice President of the United States. On February 16, 2021, a member of the United States House of Representatives, in his personal capacity, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented by private counsel and the NAACP, the plaintiff sued the President…