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POLICING
Wilkins v. City of Chicago

1:23-cv-04072 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 26, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) alleged pattern and practice of race-based and discriminatory police practices in traffic stops conducted since 2016. On June 26, 2023, five plaintiffs who had been repeatedly stopped by CPD officers, on what they claimed was limited suspicion, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs alleged unlawful race and national origin discrimination in violation of …
PRISON CONDITIONS
(PC) Watson v. Sisto

2:07-cv-01871 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2007

Closed Date: March 9, 2012

On August 28, 2007, plaintiff, initially proceeding pro se, filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. On September 10, 2007, this case was transferred to the Eastern District of California. This case is presided over by Judge Lawrence K. Karlton.   Plaintiff alleged that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs, claiming violation of his First and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiff sought compensatory damages, punitive damages, cost…
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. 
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New Jersey v. Trump

1:25-cv-10139 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025, and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Texas v. Mayorkas

2:22-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 28, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case concerns Texas' challenge of a 2022 Department of Homeland Security Interim Final Rule (IFR) allowing asylum officers to accept or reject migrants' claims for humanitarian protections soon after they cross the border. According to Texas, the IFR transferred significant adjudicatory authority from immigration judges to asylum officers. 87 Fed. Reg. 18,078. On April 28, 2022, the State of Texas filed suit against (1) the United States, (2) President Biden, and (3) various federal agenci…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DiBella v. Board of Trustees of the California State University

3:21-cv-08461 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2021

Closed Date: Oct. 10, 2023

This is a case about reasonable modifications and accommodations for students with mobility disabilities in college or university. Represented by a private firm and All Access Law Group (a firm that specialized in disability discrimination cases), the lawsuit was filed by named plaintiff student against California State University (CSU) and Compass Group USA on October 29, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Her complaint alleged that the university system v…
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 States 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 (RDC) 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. Facility staff in turn fa…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of New York v. Trump

1:25-cv-00039 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration's authority to suspend congressionally-appropriated federal financial assistance pending a review to ensure that the spending accords with Administration priorities. On January 28, 2025, twenty-two states and the District of Columbia filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs sued President Trump, the Office of Management and Budget, and a number of executive agencies under the Administrative Proce…
PRISON CONDITIONS
McBride v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-11222 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 31, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

On March 31, 2015, three incarcerated people filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), alleging that MDOC was discriminating against them and other deaf and hard of hearing prisoners. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and was assigned to Judge Sean Cox. The plaintiffs were represented by Michigan Protection and Advocacy, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and private counsel. The plaintiffs al…