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Harper v. Professional Probation Services Inc.

2:17-cv-01791 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the constitutionality of a private probation company’s extension of probationers’ sentences pursuant to a contract with the Gardendale Municipal Court. On October 23, 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed this lawsuit in the Northern District of Alabama on behalf of probationers who could not pay their fines immediately. They sued Professional Probation Services (PPS), the city of Gardendale, and the municipal court judge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs sought …
CHILD WELFARE
Eknes-Tucker v. Ivey

2:22-cv-00184 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on April 19, 2022 on behalf of a four transgender children and their parents, two medical professionals, and a Reverend in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Plaintiffs challenged Alabama's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which was set to take effect on May 8. The plaintiffs—represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and pr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Adams & Knights v. Kentucky

3:14-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 2014

Closed Date: Dec. 24, 2020

On January 1, 2014, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners in the Kentucky prison system filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated against the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Kentucky Department of Corrections, several other departments of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and by the Washington Lawyers' Committee Prisoners Rights Project, alleged violations of the America…
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…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Keyes v. School District No. 1

1:69-cv-01499 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 1969

Closed Date: 1997

Keyes--the Denver school desegregation case--was the first northern school desegregation case to reach the Supreme Court, and one of the only cases where the Supreme Court identified segregation in northern schools. The Supreme Court’s 1973 opinion was influential in defining “intent” in de facto segregation. The case lasted for decades, so this summary is necessarily partial. Prior to the filing of this lawsuit on November 30, 1969, the Denver School Board adopted three resolutions between Jan…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Money v. Pritzker

1:20-cv-02093 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: July 1, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action brought on behalf of prisoners in the Illinois Department of Corrections seeking various types of relief in light of COVID-19. The plaintiffs alleged that as people in groups who are particularly vulnerable to the virus, they were exposed to a heightened risk of COVID-19. On April 10, the judge denied the plaintiffs' request for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on May 20. The parties re…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
A. Philip Randolph Institute of Ohio v. Larose

1:20-cv-01908 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 28, 2020

This is a case about voting procedures in Ohio’s 2020 general election. On August 12, 2020, the Ohio Secretary of State issued directive 2020-16, which interpreted Ohio law to require each county board of elections to provide only one absentee ballot drop-off location. The plaintiffs here are three nonpartisan civil rights organizations — the A. Philip Randolph Institute of Ohio, the League of Women Voters of Ohio, and the Ohio State Conference of the NAACP — and seven individual Ohio voters. O…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Whorley v. Northam

3:20-cv-00255 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit was filed on April 8, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, amidst the outbreak of COVID-19 that occurred early in 2020. The plaintiffs were twenty-seven people incarcerated in Virginia state prisons. Represented by the ACLU Foundation of Virginia (ACLU-VA) and private counsel, they sued Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran, the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections Harold Clarke, …
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Disability Rights Florida v. Jones

4:16-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 2016

Case Ongoing

Disability Rights Florida ("DRF"), brought this suit against the Florida Department of Corrections ("FDOC") in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on January 26, 2016. The plaintiff, a federally designated protection and advocacy agency for the State of Florida, alleged that the defendant failed to provide inmates with disabilities access to its programs and services in violation of federal law. Specifically, plaintiff alleged that defendant failed to provide interprete…