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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Kwesell v. Yale University

3:19-cv-01098 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This class action suit was brought on June 16, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The named plaintiffs, three union-member employees of Yale University, sued in response to the institution's Health Expectation Program (HEP). The HEP was created following new collective bargaining agreements with Yale unions. It provided that union members had to complete various medical examinations, screenings, and other requirements. If an employee chose not to, Yale would take …
LABOR RIGHTS
Walden v. State of Nevada

3:14-cv-00320 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: June 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

On May 19, 2014, seven hourly correctional officers, represented by private counsel, filed suit in the First Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada in and for Carson City against the State of Nevada, the Nevada Department of Corrections, and state employees in their official and individual capacities. The plaintiffs brought their claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Nevada State Constitution on behalf of a putative class of correctional officers employed by the State…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bernier v. Allen

1:16-cv-00828 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 3, 2016

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 2022

Plaintiff, proceeding pro se, filed this lawsuit on May 3, 2016 against the United States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP), the medical director of the FBOP, and Gilead Sciences in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  He brought claims under Bivens, challenging the delayed treatment of his chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) -- and FBOP's related policies for determining DAA eligibility and priority -- as a violation of the Eighth Amendment. Plaintiff further alleged that …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
S.D. v. Pasadena Unified School District

2:16-cv-00984 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

A class action complaint filed on February 11, 2016 in federal court, Central District of California and assigned to District Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell and Magistrate Judge Gail J. Standish, alleged that the placement of a class of children violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and state disability rights laws, by unnecessarily segregating them from students without disabilities, and denying them educational opportunities available to other students at the district’s campuses. The com…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Marouf v. Azar

1:18-cv-00378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 20, 2018, a married same-sex couple filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Administration for Children and Families, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for violating the First Amendment's Establishment Clause and the Fifth Amendment’s Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process clauses. The plaintiffs were represented by Lam…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Trump

2:17-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2022

This class action challenged President Trump's January 27, 2017, Executive Order (EO-1) which prohibited admission to the US for nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The plaintiffs commenced this lawsuit on February 7, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Washington and private counsel. On November 29, 2017, this case was consolidated with Jewish Family Service of Seattle v. Trump, No…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Benjamin v. Horn

1:75-cv-03073 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 24, 1975

Case Ongoing

This case was consolidated for enforcement purposes with Ambrose v. Malcolm; Detainees of Queens House of Detention v. Malcolm; Detainees of Brooklyn House of Detention for Men v. Malcolm; Maldonado v. Ciuros; Forts v. Malcolm; and Rosenthal v. Malcolm. The summary below includes all of these in the consolidated form, but more information about each individual case is included in the "Related Cases" section. On June 24, 1975, a group of pretrial detainees at Rikers Island Detention Center for M…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States v. State of Idaho

1:22-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On August 22, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho to protect what it alleged were rights of patients to access emergency abortion care guaranteed by federal law. The suit challenged Idaho Code § 18-622, which was set to go into effect on Aug. 25 and to impose a near-total ban on abortion. The complaint sought a declaratory judgment that § 18-622 conflicted with, and …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
A.R. v. Connecticut State Board of Education

3:16-cv-01197 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 15, 2016

Case Ongoing

Under state law, Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-76d(b), Connecticut was required to provide education to individuals with disabilities only until they attained a high school diploma or turned 21, whichever occurred first. No comparable Connecticut law or regulation imposed a maximum age limit for entitlement to public education for non-special education students. In this case, the named plaintiff – a 22-year-old with a developmental disability, acting through his mother – filed a class action suit on be…