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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Americans for Immigration Justice v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:22-cv-03118 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about access to legal counsel for people in immigration detention facilities.  On October 13, 2022, five legal services providers filed suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The complaint alleged that ICE policies prevented detained people from accessing their attorneys in four immigration detention centers, in violation of the First and Fifth Amendmen…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Priorities USA v. Nessel

4:19-cv-13341 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 2019

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on November 12, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiff, a left-wing advocacy group called Priorities USA, sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in her official capacity. They were represented by private counsel. The group claimed that two Michigan laws, the "Voter Transportation Ban" and the "Absentee Ballot Organizing Ban," violated the U.S. Constitution. The Voter Transportation Ban prohibited the hiring of vehicles to b…
POLICING
Sierra v. City of New York

1:20-cv-10291 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2020

Case Ongoing

On December 7, 2020, four private individuals who attended racial justice protests in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the City of New York, the New York City Police Department (the NYPD), City officials, and police officers in their individual capacities. The plaintiffs brought this action on behalf of themselves and  a putative class under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to remedy violations of their First, Fourth, a…
CHILD WELFARE
M.B. v. Colyer

2:18-cv-02617 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

In 2018, children in the Kansas foster care system filed a class-action suit against the Governor of Kansas, the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF), the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. The named plaintiffs allegedly experienced great hardship while involved in the Kansas foster care system, including dozens or even hundreds of moves, night-to-night changes, and starkly inadequate mental and behavioral diagn…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Allah v. Thomas

2:15-cv-05593 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2015

Closed Date: April 9, 2021

On October 9, 2015 plaintiff filed a complaint against several prison officials and medical providers at SC-Chester, a state prison in Pennsylvania. Plaintiff, an incarcerated individual with chronic Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and other illnesses filed his lawsuit under Section 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleging violations of the First and Eighth Amendments. The case was assigned to Judge Gene E.K. Pratter. Plaintiff alleged that he was improperly den…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Turner v. Wetzel

4:18-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a person serving a life sentence in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, was diagnosed with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the mid 1990s and, in this lawsuit, sought to compel the Department to provide direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment.  On January 19, 2018, plaintiff filed this action pro se in the Court of Common Pleas for Schuylkill County against various employees of the Department of Corrections ("DOC defendants") and Correct Care Solutions, the Departmen…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Harris v. Quinn

1:10-cv-02477 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 22, 2010

Case Ongoing

On April 22, 2010, individuals who provide home care to disabled individuals enrolled in Illinois Medicaid-waiver programs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the State of Illinois, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare of Illinois & Indiana, SIEU Local 73, and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 31. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, …
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Oregon Advocacy Center v. Mink

3:02-cv-00339 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: March 19, 2002

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon on March 19, 2002, by the Oregon Advocacy Center (“OAC”), representing criminal patients unable to stand trial due to mental illness; the Metropolitan Public Defender Services, Inc. (“MPD”); and a criminal patient who waited 23 days after being found unfit to stand trial before admittance to a proper mental health treatment facility. The plaintiffs sued the Oregon Department of Human Services (“DHS”) under the Protecti…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
C.K v. Oakland Community Health Network

2:20-cv-13301 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2020

Closed Date: July 29, 2022

This lawsuit, alleging violations of Section 504 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, was filed by Disability Rights Michigan on December 15, 2020 in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, seeking to enforce a Settlement Agreement they signed with Defendants in 2018.   District Judge David M. Lawson was assigned to the case.  Plaintiff is a 15 year-old Medicaid beneficiary who seeks to compel the State’s Medicaid managed care contractor (Oakland Communi…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Carr v. Becerra

3:22-cv-00988 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the effects of an agency rule change on Medicaid benefits provided by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government passed the FFCRA on March 18th, 2020. Among other things, the bill increased federal funding of Medicaid if certain provisions were met. One of these provisions was an extension of benefits through the end of the declared public health emergency. States could not terminate the benefit extension;…