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PRISON CONDITIONS
Orr v. Elyea

2:08-cv-02232 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2008

Case Ongoing

This case is about people with Hepatitis C who were or had been incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). Represented by private counsel, around 75 incarcerated plaintiffs filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois on September 29, 2008. Over the course of this decade long litigation, numerous other individual plaintiffs were joined, with the number of plaintiffs eventually growing to be around 1,800. In…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Commissioner

1:13-cv-01335 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

In 2013, Indiana made two changes to its state laws regulating abortion clinics. These amendments changed the definition of “abortion clinic” to include not only clinics which provide surgical abortions, but also clinics which provided abortion-inducing medicine. They also imposed new regulations on any clinic which fell under the new definition of “abortion clinic,” requiring that all abortion clinics meet standards only necessary for facilities which conducted surgical abortions. The new defi…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Family Planning Association of Maine v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

1:19-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: March 6, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2021

This is a case about the Trump Administration's Compliance with Statutory Program Integrity Requirements, 84 Fed. Reg. 7,714 (the “Rule”), published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) on March 4, 2019, and its deleterious effect on Maine reproductive health care organizations. Maine Family Planning was the largest reproductive health care organization in the state and its sole Title X family planning program grantee. Since the middle of the twenty-first century…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Torres v. Milusnic

2:20-cv-04450 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action originally brought by five individuals held at Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S. federal prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to undertake reasonable preventative measures, which allowed the virus to spread to 60% of those in custody. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief for improved conditions of confinement, as well as a writ of habeas corpus for release. On…
POLICING
Dundon v. Kirchmeier

1:16-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a putative class action about excessive police force used to disperse protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). On November 20, 2016, the plaintiffs– Native Americans and other concerned citizens who referred to themselves as "water protectors"--gathered to pray and protest the DAPL at Backwater Bridge in North Dakota. They were met by local police forces who were armed with specialty impact munitions, teargas, and water cannons. Without warning, the police began to use force to …
POLICING
Samaha v. City of Minneapolis

0:20-cv-01715 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 2020

Case Ongoing

Seven individuals who protested in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd filed this putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota on August 6, 2020. The plaintiffs–represented by private counsel–sued the City of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Police Department (“MPD”), MPD Chief Medaria Arradondo, and individual police officers. They requested declaratory and injunctive relief for violations of their First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendme…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
UC Hastings v. City of San Francisco

4:20-cv-03033 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 4, 2020

On May 4, 2020, four individuals, a business, and the University of California Hastings School of Law filed a class action lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco in the Northern Federal District of California to challenge living conditions related to accessibility, criminality, and health and safety in a neighborhood called the Tenderloin. The plaintiffs alleged that city/county’s inaction allowed conditions to exist and grow, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, in violation …
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

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2015, three prisoner-plaintiffs 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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Wagafe v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

2:17-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenges President Trump's January 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO) suspending entry into the United States of citizens or nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. This case also challenges the government's Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), alleging it was a precursor to the EO's "extreme vetting" of Muslims, and chronicled the government's attempts to resist disclosure of documents about this program. The original complaint was f…
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…