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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
Washington & Minnesota v. Trump

2:17-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2018

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed this federal lawsuit on January 30, 2017 against President Trump’s January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a complaint and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The State of Minnesota also signed on as a plaintif…
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…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Jock v. Sterling Jewelers, Inc.

1:08-cv-02875 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 18, 2008

Case Ongoing

On March 18, 2008, sixteen current and former female employees of Sterling Jewelers, Inc., filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Sterling, a large jewelry retailer. The case was assigned to District Judge Jed Sol Rakoff. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued under under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000e), the Equal Pay Act (29 U.S.C. § 206(d)), and the Age Discrimination in Employm…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ahlman v. Barnes

8:20-cv-00835 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 30, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This class-action lawsuit, brought by people incarcerated in the Orange County Jail, argued that the county and the sheriff violated the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act by failing to provide adequate care amidst the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the motion for provisional class-certification and partially granted a temporary restraining order, but the defendants appealed and the Supreme Court stay…
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…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Smith

1:16-cv-01300 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2016

Case Ongoing

Whole Woman's Health and several other reproductive healthcare providers filed this lawsuit against the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on December 12, 2016. Plaintiffs were represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights as well as private counsel. The suit challenged proposed regulations published by the Texas Department of State Health Services. These proposed regulations would require embryonic and fetal tissue …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Richardson v. Trump

1:20-cv-02262 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 8, 2021

This is a case about vote-by-mail in the 2020 general election. In July 2020, a longtime campaign donor to then-President Donald Trump was confirmed as Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The new Postmaster General immediately instituted a series of policy changes as the USPS aimed to reduce operating costs. The plaintiffs here were four individuals registered to vote in Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, and Wisconsin; they had each applied for absentee vote-by-mail ball…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harding v. Edwards

3:20-cv-00495 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2020

Closed Date: May 17, 2021

This is a case about Louisiana voters who wished to avoid potential exposure to COVID-19 while casting their ballots in the November 2020 general election and December 2020 second-round runoff election. Some of the plaintiffs here had previously challenged Louisiana voting laws (with respect to the 2020 primary elections) in a case consolidated with Clark v. Edwards in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick dismissed that case for lack …
EDUCATION
Fobbs v. New Haven Unified School District

4:10-cv-01065 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2009

This case was one of several suits filed against Union City (the “City”) and the New Haven Unified School District (the “District”) following the 2007 death of a 14-year-old Black student who was shot to death by members of a long gang while on the premises of a middle school. The plaintiffs, parents of current and former Black students in the District, sued on behalf of their children. Many of the children witnessed the 2007 shooting, and others faced racially-motivated violence on school grou…