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JAIL CONDITIONS
Howard v. Williams

2:20-cv-01389 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case is about jail conditions in the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ), particularly access to mental health care for incarcerated people with psychiatric disabilities. On September 15, 2020, five individuals then incarcerated at ACJ, represented by the Abolitionist Law Center, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, and a private firm, brought this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on behalf of themselves and other persons with…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Carr v. District of Columbia

1:06-cv-00098 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2006

Closed Date: Oct. 27, 2011

On January 19, 2006, the named plaintiffs filed this suit on behalf of themselves and similarly situated individuals in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs alleged that the District of Columbia’s (“the District”) Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) falsely arrested and imprisoned persons who had been participating in or observing a demonstration in Washington, D.C., in response to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush. The MPD arrested the plain…
EDUCATION
Rapuano v. Trustees of Dartmouth College

1:18-cv-01070 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2018

Case Ongoing

On November 15, 2018, seven female students in Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences filed this putative class action suit against the Trustees of Dartmouth College under Title IX and New Hampshire common law in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The plaintiffs claimed a hostile educational environment, gender discrimination, quid pro quo sexual harassment, and retaliation in violation of Title IX. Additionally, the plaintiff class claimed that the T…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Franciscan Alliance, LLC v. Burwell

7:16-cv-00108 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 23, 2016, religiously-affiliated health organizations and five states (Texas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kentucky, and Kansas) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Secretary under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act claiming violations of these Acts, as well as their First, Fifth, Tenth, and Eleventh Amendment rights. The plaintiff…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Anchorage School District v. M.G

3:17-cv-00157 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: July 12, 2017

Closed Date: March 27, 2019

This case is about whether an Alaska school district was required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to provide a student with blindness and other disabilities with an education a specialized school in Massachusetts. The student was a young man with multiple disabilities, including autism, gastrointestinal disorders, cognitive impairments, and impending blindness. His Individualized Education Plan (IEP) established he needed to attend a school for the blind in order to ad…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Foster v. City of Pittsburgh

2:12-cv-01207 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2012

Closed Date: June 8, 2018

Two Black men filed this class action lawsuit on August 23, 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; the case was then assigned to Judge David S. Cercone. The plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated,  sued the City of Pittsburgh under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964; 42 U.S.C. § 2000; 42 U.S.C. § 1981, as applied by 42 U.S.C. § 1983; and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, 43 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 951. The plaintiffs, represented b…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Trump

2:17-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2022

This class action challenged President Trump's January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) which prohibited admission to the US for nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs commenced this lawsuit on February 7, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Washington and private counsel. On November 29, 2017, this case was consolidated with Jewish Family Service of Seattle v. Trump, No…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Beshear

3:17-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 4, 2020

On January 7, 2017, Kentucky enacted House Bill 2 ("the Act"), that required physicians to show a woman seeking an abortion ultrasound images of her embryo or fetus, auscultate the heartbeat, and provide a detailed description of the embryo or fetus prior to performing the abortion, even over the patient's objection. The penalties for violating the Act included a fine of up to $100,000 for a first offense and up to $250,000 for each subsequent offense in addition to disciplinary actions brought…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Louhghalam v. Trump

1:17-cv-10154 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: March 20, 2017

On January 28, 2017, two lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. who were detained at Boston Logan Airport (Logan) as they were trying to return home to Massachusetts filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (in Boston). Represented by the ACLU of Massachusetts and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Secretary of DHS, the Commissioner of CBP, the Director of the…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…