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PRISON CONDITIONS
In Re HCV Prison Litigation

3:19-cv-00577 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2019

Case Ongoing

This consolidated, class action lawsuit brought by people in the custody of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) challenged the Department's Hepatitis C treatment policies and protocols. Eight named plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued the NDOC alleging violations of their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit sought a court order requiring NDOC to identify and monitor inmates with Hepatitis C, provide medical care that me…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:19-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky filed a lawsuit to challenge two Kentucky laws: one banned on abortion at 6-weeks of pregnancy, and the other law banned abortion based on the specific reasons for the person’s decision, such as a fetal diagnosis. 
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri v. Brownback

2:11-cv-02357 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: June 27, 2011

Closed Date: May 9, 2014

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)In September 2011, the ACLU and the ACLU of Kansas and Western-Missouri filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, against a Kansas state law restricting Title X funding allegedly in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of El Cenizo v. State of Texas

5:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Case Ongoing

This suit challenged Texas's "Sanctuary City" legislation, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which required local Texas law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials and punished them if they did not. Unlike the other suits in this special collection, this suit did not challenge President Trump's "Sanctuary City" Executive Order. At the time of this writing, there were three other cases addressing SB4 (in addition to this one). This case was before Judge Orlando L. Garcia, as was El Paso C…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Davis v. Jones

3:17-cv-00820 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 19, 2017

Case Ongoing

On July 19, 2017, death-row inmates in Florida filed this lawsuit alleging that the practice of placing death-row inmates in solitary confinement indefinitely violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, they claimed that the permanent solitary confinement posed a serious risk of harm to the health and safety of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against employees of the Florida Department of Co…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Hopkins v. Jegley

4:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 20, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging abortion restrictions in the state of Arkansas. On June 20, 2017, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and abortion provider, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The plaintiff sued the Prosecuting Attorney for Pulaski County and the Arkansas State Medical Board under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the Center for Reproductive Rights …
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
M.G. v. Cuomo

7:19-cv-00639 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2019, six indigent prisoners with mental illness whom the defendants held in secure prisons past their release dates filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of other prisoners in similar situations. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of New York, the New York State Office of Mental Health, Commissioner, Associate Commissioner, and the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ("DOCCS"), alleging …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Drenth v. Boockvar

1:20-cv-00829 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 21, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2020

This is a case about accessible ballots for blind individuals in Pennsylvania. On May 21, 2020, a blind individual who was registered to vote in Pennsylvania and the National Federation of the Blind of Pennsylvania filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Department of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Goodman v. Davis

2:12-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 21, 2012

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2012, a Native American prisoner incarcerated at the McConnell Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) filed this lawsuit, pro se, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plaintiff sued five TDCJ employees under 42 U.S.C. § 1983: the Director of TDCJ, the Director of Chaplaincy Department, two chaplains, and the Deputy Director of Prison and Jail Operations. He claimed that TDCJ policies violated his rights under RLUIPA and the First Amendme…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hamama v. Adducci

2:17-cv-11910 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 15, 2017

Case Ongoing

Petitioners in this class action/habeas petition are Iraqi nationals—many, perhaps most, Chaldean Christian—who have resided in the United States for many years. They have been subject to final orders of removal for years, but the U.S. government permitted them to reside in the community under orders of supervision. In early 2017, political negotiation by the Trump administration with Iraq (related to Iraq's desire to be taken off the Trump Executive Order travel-ban list) led to Iraq’s agreeme…