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United States of America v. Russell

1:25-cv-02029 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: June 24, 2025

This case was brought by the Trump administration against the District Court of Maryland for automatically issuing a default, temporary stay in habeas immigration petitions. The Trump Administration filed this novel lawsuit on June 24, 2025 which named all 15 active and senior status judges in the district as defendants, as well as the district's court clerk. The suit challenged a standing order issued by Chief Judge George L. Russell III regarding habeas petitions in the district. The recent i…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Appeal Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Council v. Ivey

2:23-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

This case is about alleged systematic over-detention of people incarcerated by the Alabama Department of Corrections for the purpose of profiting from the practice of “convict leasing.”   On December 12, 2024, ten former and current incarcerated persons, along with three service-worker unions, brought this putative class action lawsuit against a number of Alabama officials and private businesses in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Named defendants in the laws…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Marria v. Broadus

1:97-cv-08297 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 1997

Closed Date: Sept. 9, 2005

On November 10, 1997, an inmate at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, New York, filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that his constitutional rights ha…

Judgment for Plaintiff

Appeal Dismissed

JAIL CONDITIONS
Scott v. Quay

1:19-cv-01075 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 19, 2024

This case concerns conditions of confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center (“MDC”) in Brooklyn, New York. On February 22, 2019, two individuals who were in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) at MDC brought a class action lawsuit against the warden of the MDC in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The case was assigned to District Judge Margo K. Brodie. Suing under Bivens, the plaintiffs alleged that MDC was plunged into darkness and cold from J…

Settled: Case Closed

PRISON CONDITIONS
Arney v. Bennett

3:77-cv-03045 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1977

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 1996

On February 23, 1977, inmates of state prisons in Lansing and Hutchinson, Kansas filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Kansas in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs, represented by the Washburn University School of Law Legal Clinic and Legal Services for Prisoners, alleged that prison overcrowding violated their constitutional rights. The prisoners claimed that double-celling, outdoor dormitories, the conditions of…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Homeward Bound v. Hissom Memorial Center

4:85-cv-00437 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 2, 1985

Closed Date: 2007

On May 2, 1985, Homeward Bound, Inc. filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma against the Hissom Memorial Center and various state agencies. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of 600 individuals with intellectual disabilities, most of whom were children, who were incarcerated in Hissom Memorial in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Homeward Bound was represented by private attorneys and attorneys from the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelph…
PRISON CONDITIONS
John L. v. Adams

3:88-cv-00924 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 1988

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2008

John L., a juvenile whose last name is unknown, brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 through his next friend Andrew J. Shookhoff of the Vanderbilt Legal Clinic on November 7, 1988. Legal Services of South Central Tennessee also provided counsel for the plaintiff. The plaintiff was 17 years old when he filed the suit alleging that he was being denied the right of access to the courts. At the time, plaintiff was incarcerated in the Taft Youth Center in Pikeville, Tennessee, a s…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
BlueRibbon Coalition, Inc v. Bureau of Land Management

4:25-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: March 5, 2025

On March 5, 2025, BlueRibbon Coalition, Inc., Sage Riders Motorcycle Club, and an individual plaintiff who was a member of both groups filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Utah. The case was assigned to Judge David O. Nuffer. They named the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of the Interior as Defendants. The Plaintiffs challenged the route closures established by Defendants' approval of the San Rafael Travel Management Plan/Final Environment…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Blue v. Lockhart

5:84-cv-00551 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Dec. 5, 1984

Closed Date: March 27, 2024

On December 5, 1984, a prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Arkansas filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Arkansas Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging that prison officials had violated his constitutional right to free exercise of his religion. The parties entered into a consent decree. On April 16, 1992 the plaintiff asked the court to hold the defendants in contempt, claiming that they had violated the consent d…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Massachusetts v. Scott Bessent

1:25-cv-12822 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2025

This case challenged the actions of the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in sharing protected taxpayer data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for immigration enforcement purposes, allegedly in violation of the Tax Reform Act of 1976. In February 2025, ICE requested, and the then-Acting SSA Commissioner provided, tens of thousands of immigrant addresses obtained from SSA records. Subsequently, the IRS and ICE entered into a Memorandum of Un…

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