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Aziz v. Trump

1:17-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 1, 2017

On January 28, 2017, lawful permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center and Mayer Brown, filed this case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs brought the action as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a civil complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. They simultaneously filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order (TRO). The plaintiffs were 50 to 60 lawful permanent residen…
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
Flores Tejada v. Godfrey

2:16-cv-01454 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 14, 2016, a Mexican citizen who had been previously detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiff sued the local Field Office Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Director of ICE, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Attorney General of the U.S., and the wa…
EDUCATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Simpson-Vlach v. Michigan Department of Education

5:21-cv-11532 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)Parents of special needs children covered by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act brought this class action against the State of Michigan and local education agencies alleging that the defendants failed to provide adequate services to their children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ahlman v. Barnes

8:20-cv-00835 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 30, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class-action lawsuit, brought by people incarcerated in the Orange County Jail, argued that the county and the sheriff violated the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act by failing to provide adequate care amidst the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the motion for provisional class-certification and partially granted a temporary restraining order, but the defendants appealed and the Supreme Court stay…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Merrill v. Dunlap

1:20-cv-00248 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: July 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about accessible electronic voting and vote-by-mail procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. On July 15, 2020, the plaintiffs, who are blind or legally blind, filed this lawsuit in the District of Maine against the state of Maine and four Maine towns and cities. Represented by Disability Rights Maine, the plaintiffs requested a preliminary and permanent injunction requiring Maine to provide vote-by-mail and electronic voting procedures that were accessible to blind voters. The pl…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc. v. Cox

2:05-cv-70779 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 1, 2005

Closed Date: April 7, 2008

This case is a challenge to Michigan’s “Legal Birth Definition Act,” which penalized physicians for performing dilation and extraction and dilation and evacuation abortions. Enacted in 2005, the law established a protected legal status for partially-delivered fetuses, called perinates. A perinate was defined as a live human being that is either expelled or extracted from the mother's body. The law imposed civil and criminal penalties for physicians who performed procedures that led to the injur…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Jones v. Stanford

1:20-cv-01332 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit about whether the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) can ban individuals required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) from accessing social media and the internet. On March 12, 2020, six people required to register under SORA filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, where it was assigned to District Judge Raymond J. Dearie. The plaintiffs sued the Chairwoman of the New Yor…
POLICING
Buchanan v. Trump

1:20-cv-01542 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on June 11, 2020. The suit was in response to President Trump's June 1, 2020, decision to use chemical weapons against peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square Park, protesting the police killing of George Floyd. In order to clear the path for President Trump to walk to St. John's Church, the military and military police used tear gas, pepper balls, pepper spray, and other weapons to disperse the peaceful protesters…