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JAIL CONDITIONS
Murray v. Santa Barbara

2:17-cv-08805 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2017

Case Ongoing

On December 6, 2017, several prisoners of the Santa Barbara County Jail (SBCJ) in pre-trial detention filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Santa Barbara and the Sheriff's Office under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Saddozai v. Davis

5:18-cv-05558 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2018

Case Ongoing

This case involved allegations of excessive force by a correctional officer. On September 11, 2018, a prisoner in San Quentin State Prison filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against a correctional officer in San Quentin State Prison under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Originally filing pro se, the plaintiff alleged that he was attacked by other incarcerated individuals when the defendant correctional officer intervened by shooting the plaintiff se…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Spurlock v. Wexford Health Sources, Incorporated

3:23-cv-00476 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: July 7, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations of denial of medical treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (“OUD”) experienced by three incarcerated individuals. On July 7, 2023, the three individuals filed a putative class action lawsuit against Wexford Health Sources (“Wexford”), a for-profit healthcare provider for prisons and jails, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The plaintiffs, who were from West Virginia and New Mexico, were formerly incarcerated at jails and prisons wh…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Dixon v. City of St. Louis

4:19-cv-00112 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 8, 2021

On January 28, 2019, several arrestees from St. Louis filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. None of the four named plaintiffs could afford to pay their monetary release conditions, which ranged from $10,000 to $30,000, and were thus incarcerated at one of the City’s two detention centers without access to showers or medical care and forced to endure allegedly unconscionable conditions, including extreme heat and cold, rat and cockroach …
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CODING IN PROCESS
Linchpins of Liberty v. United States of America

1:13-cv-00777 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 29, 2013

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2014

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)  Groups of conservative non-profit organizations sued the IRS in 2013 alleging that the government reserved special scrutiny for conservative applicants for tax exemptions. The case ended in a settlement, in 2017. 
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Persico v. Sebelius

1:13-cv-00303 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2013

Closed Date: Oct. 20, 2017

On October 8, 2013, three Catholic non-profit 501(c)(3)s and a trustee for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, Department of Treasury, and their respective Secretaries in their official capacities. Plaintiffs sued under the Administrative Procedure Act, the Declaratory Judgment Act, and Religious Freedom R…
EDUCATION
Tirrell v. Edelblut

1:24-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case was originally filed on August 16, 2024 by two transgender teenage girls and their parents in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire against the Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education; New Hampshire State Board of Education; the Pemi-Baker Regional School District and its Board; and the Pembroke School District and its Board. The Plaintiffs challenged HB 1205, a New Hampshire statute that barred Plaintiffs from playing school sports, alle…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Association of American Universities v. Department of Health & Human Services

1:25-cv-10346 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenges the Trump Administration's policy change slashing indirect cost reimbursements for projects funded by the National Institutes of Health. On February 10, 2025, the Association of American Universities (AAU), American Council on Education (ACE), Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), and thirteen universities (listed at the end of this summary) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Department of Health a…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Talbott v. Trump

1:25-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is one of several cases challenging President Donald J. Trump’s January 27, 2025 executive order banning openly transgender people from serving in the military, which reversed the U.S. Armed Forces’ policy of permitting transgender people who meet military standards to serve. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of transgender rights-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On January 27, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directin…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management

3:25-cv-01780 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

This is one of several cases challenging President Donald J. Trump’s firing of "probationary" employees for pretextual reasons. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, four labor organizations--who represent hundreds of thousands of employees within dozens of federal agencies and departments--filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern…