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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Innovation Law Lab v. Nielsen

3:19-cv-00807 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2019

Case Ongoing

On February 14, 2019, a group of asylum seekers from Central America and several legal organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, sought declaratory and injunctiv…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Samuel v. Signal International, LLC

1:13-cv-00323 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: May 21, 2013

Case Ongoing

This case is part of the series of Signal International cases. It is stayed during defendant's bankruptcy and settlement proceedings.On May 21, 2013, 17 Indian guestworkers filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for harm suffered as a result of an allegedly fraudulent and coercive employment recruitment scheme. Plaintiffs filed this suit after District Judge Jay Zainey denied class certification on Jan. 3, 2012, in a related case, David v. Signal Internatio…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Henry v. Hulett

3:12-cv-03087 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 20, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, female prisoners at an Illinois women’s prison were strip searched as part of a training exercise for new guards. Several of the prisoners filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The plaintiffs sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, Lincoln Correctional Center, and Logan Correctional Center under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Represented by civil rights attorneys Loevy…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lane v. Kitzhaber (later, Brown)

3:12-cv-00138 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2012

Case Ongoing

On January 25, 2012, this class action was brought by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs claimed that the State of Oregon and its Offices of Developmental Disability Services and Vocational Rehabilitation Services, along with other state agencies, violated the Americans With Disabilities Act ("ADA") and the Reha…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United State Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Those staff in turn failed to su…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Paher v. Cegavske

3:20-cv-00243 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

Case Ongoing

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of September 7, 2020, Plaintiffs claim that a universal mail voting plan violates the right to vote (1st and 14th Amendments). They further claim that the plan violates the Purcell principle, violates Article I, § 4 of the Constitution, and violates Article IV, § 4 as well as the Nevada Constitution. State constitutional clai…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Cacho v. Gusman

2:11-cv-00225 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2011

Case Ongoing

On February 2, 2011, two immigrant workers , represented by represented by public interest law firms and private counsel, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the sheriff of Orleans Parish. The plaintiffs were held in the Orleans Parish Prison for more than 160 and 90 days, respectively, because of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold requests, which were supposed to be limited to 48 hours according the federal agency's rules.O…
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…
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 …
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…