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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Iowa v. Rabiner Treatment Center

3:16-cv-03010 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

Closed Date: May 26, 2016

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy agency’s (P&A) records and residents access authority. On February 10, 2016, Disability Rights Iowa (DRI), Iowa’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. DRI filed this lawsuit against Rabiner Treatment Center (Rabiner), a youth psychiatric residential treatment center, under the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act. Represented by itself, DRI sought declarative and in…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Kerrigan v. Philadelphia Board of Elections

2:07-cv-00687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 2007

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2015

On February 21, 2007, Disability Rights Pennsylvania (the Pennsylvania protection and advocacy agency) and private co-counsel filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of registered voters with mobility disabilities to challenge inaccessibility of polling locations throughout the City of Philadelphia. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and assigned to Judge John R. Pavoda. Defendants included officials and entities responsible for elections in th…
LABOR RIGHTS
Walsh v. Packers Sanitation Services, Inc.

4:22-cv-03246 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Nov. 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

Martin Walsh filed suit in his official capacity as the Secretary of Labor for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) against Packers Sanitation Services, one of the largest food safety companies in the U.S., in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska on November 9, 2022. DOL alleged that Packers illegally employed more than two dozen children, ranging in age from 13 to 17, in meatpacking plants in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. DOL also filed a motion for a Temporary Restr…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Agee, Jr. v. Benson

1:22-cv-00272 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 23, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the legality of Michigan House of Representatives and Senate districts.  In November 2018, Michigan voters approved a state constitutional amendment that gave the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission the power to draw state legislative districts, instead of the legislature. Mich. Const. Art. IV, § 6. The amendment also directed the Michigan Secretary of State to serve as the Commission’s non-voting secretary.  On March 23, 2022, twelve Black Michigan voter…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC.

2:10-cv-01283 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2010

Closed Date: May 8, 2017

On September 29, 2010, a class of male employees 50 years of age or older filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), 29 U.S.C. § 621, against Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for lost compensation in front pay and back pay, attorneys' fees and costs, declaratory and injunctive relief, lost pension benefits, and liquidated damages, claimin…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Gray v. County of Riverside

5:13-cv-00444 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2013

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class action about medical care in the Riverside County jails settled in 2015. On April 4, 2020, plaintiffs brought a motion to enforce the consent decree, seeking implementation of expert-endorsed coronavirus-related protocols including social distancing. On April 16, the Court agreed, requiring planning and potentially prisoner transfers. A formal COVID-19 plan was approved in July 2020 and revised in October 2020 and June 2022. On May 8, 2013, three prisoners in River…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Reed-Pratt v. Winfrey

3:20-cv-12129 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

On August 9, 2020, a Detroit resident and registered voter sued the Detroit city clerk, Detroit Department of Elections, and Detroit Election Commission, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan challenging Detroit's absentee ballot processes. The plaintiff alleged that, during the June 2020 primary elections, Detroit sent absentee ballots to all registered voters regardless of whether the voters requested them. The plaintiff asserted that sending unsolicited absentee bal…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Hawkins v. DeWine

2:20-cv-02781 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 29, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2020

This case is about the constitutionality of Ohio’s ballot access requirements for the November 2020 general election in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs, two independent presidential candidates and five individual Ohio voters, filed this lawsuit on May 29, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against Ohio’s Governor, Secretary of State, and Director of the Department of Health. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Tony N. v. USCIS

3:21-cv-08742 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 2021

Closed Date: March 2, 2022

This was a putative class action brought by five asylum seekers who sought extensions to their work authorization, but whose extensions were not ruled on promptly; they therefore had either lost or were about to lose the right to work. On November 10, 2021, these five individuals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”), and the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) under the Ad…
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…