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PRISON CONDITIONS
Chatman v. Otani

1:21-cv-00268 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: June 9, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2021

This class action lawsuit, brought in 2021 by persons incarcerated or detained in Hawai'i correctional facilities, alleged that the conditions in the state's jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic had contributed to multiple COVID-19 outbreaks and sought implementation of health and safety protocols. On June 8, 2021, this case was removed from Hawaii’s First Circuit Court to the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. On June 9, plaintiffs filed their first amended class action …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Darweesh v. Trump

1:17-cv-00480 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2017

This lawsuit challenged President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring admission to the U.S. of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs–visa holders who were detained at JFK airport and threatened with deportation pursuant to EO-1–filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint in District Court for the Eastern District of New York on January 28, 2017. Simultaneously, the plaintiffs filed a motion to certify…
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
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…
NATIONAL SECURITY
Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Bush

4:07-cv-00109 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2007

Closed Date: 2012

On February 28, 2006, Al-Haramain Oregon (a non-profit organization) and two of its attorneys filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 50 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1812 against the U.S. Government. The plaintiffs asked the court for injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the government violated FISA by conducting warrantless electronic surveillance of their communications. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the gove…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Tummino v. Von Eschenbach

1:05-cv-00366 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2005

Closed Date: April 5, 2013

This is a case about the Food and Drug Administration’s rules surrounding access to Plan B emergency contraceptives (“ECs”). On January 21, 2005, the plaintiffs—including numerous individual members of the Morning-After-Pill (“MAP”) Conspiracy, a non-profit coalition of feminist organizations leading grassroots efforts to ensure that ECs are available over-the-counter (“OTC”)—sued the FDA in the Eastern District of New York. Represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, they requested decl…
PRISON CONDITIONS
West v. Gobeille

2:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2019, incarcerated individuals in Vermont with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and Judge William K. Sessions III presided. The plaintiffs alleged that the Vermont Department of Corrections, its leadership, and its medical contractors violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by withholding treatment from incarcerated individuals wit…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Suarez v. Annucci

7:20-cv-07133 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a damages case about a man with bipolar schizoaffective disorder who alleges prison officials and doctors denied him mental health treatment while he was incarcerated at New York Downstate Correctional Facility (Downstate) in summer 2017. The case is notable: it held that part of the New York Special Housing Unit (SHU) Exclusion Law relating to mentally disabled prisoners placed in solitary confinement is privately enforceable.  When the plaintiff was transferred to Downstate in June 20…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Remick v. City of Philadelphia

2:20-cv-01959 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action brought by individuals incarcerated in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons (Philadelphia's jail system), alleging that the conditions within the facility were unconstitutional, due to the plaintiffs' heightened risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19. The parties entered into a partial settlement agreement as to protective equipment, disinfectant, and monitoring, which was approved by the court on June 3. The plaintiffs twice moved for contempt…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom

3:20-cv-00865 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a suit brought by a church against the State of California’s enforcement of stay-at-home orders and prohibition of in-person religious policies. The plaintiffs alleged that California’s four-stage “Reopening Plan,” had relaxed the stay-at-home order for certain retail organizations as part of Stage 2 of the reopening, however, churches were to be opened months later. On May 15, the court denied the TRO and the plaintiffs appealed. The Ninth Circuit denied the injunctio…