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PRISON CONDITIONS
Holt v. Payne

5:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: March 1, 2019

This case concerns allegations of failure to accommodate the religious practices of three Muslim people incarcerated by the Arkansas Department of Corrections (“ADC”) through policies on religious services and headdresses. Represented by CAIR Legal Defense Fund, Plaintiffs filed suit on March 1, 2019, against various named ADC employees in their official and individual capacities in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The complaint alleged violations of the First Amend…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Chasin v. District of Columbia

1:05-cv-01792 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2005

This case was one of two that challenged D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department (DC Fire) rules prohibiting beards and long hair under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).  The plaintiffs, a group of DC Fire employees with religious convictions prohibiting them from shaving their beards, brought this lawsuit against the District of Columbia in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on September 9, 2005. The plaintiffs challenged a DC Fire rule which required …

Injunction Granted

Reversed

PRISON CONDITIONS
Zielinski v. New York Department Of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS)

9:24-cv-00450 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: March 29, 2024

Closed Date: April 5, 2024

This is a case about the free exercise rights of incarcerated people. A group of individuals incarcerated in New York filed this putative class action lawsuit on March 29, 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York against the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), seeking an injunction to be allowed to see the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The plaintiffs sued under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act as well as 42…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Redigan v. Detroit

2:24-cv-13042 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 2024

This case concerned the right to protest for peace in a Detroit public park. On November 18, 2024, two individuals filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the City of Detroit, the Detroit 360 Conservancy, the Downtown Business Improvement Zone, and two security guards. Represented by the University of Michigan’s Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, the plaintiffs alleged that they were illegally restricted by the defendants …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Potter v. District of Columbia

1:01-cv-01189 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 30, 2001

This case challenged the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department’s (D.C. Fire’s) grooming policy. The policy sets restrictions on the hair and facial hair of employees. Specifically, it sets restrictions on hair and facial hair length and requires that hair and facial hair be groomed in accordance with the policy.  On May 30, 2001, a group of firefighters in D.C. Fire brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Seeking declaratory an…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. Harry

1:23-cv-00037 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 2023

This case challenged a Pennsylvania prison policy which said that faith-based religious groups could not purchase food items from outside vendors for religious feasts.  The plaintiff, a prisoner at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution- Albion (SCIA) who proceeded in forma pauperis, filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on February 17, 2023. The plaintiff sought to prevent the actin…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hoque v. Trump

0:25-cv-01576 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: April 18, 2025

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. The petitioner, Mohammed Hoque, is a 20-year-old Bangladeshi national who entered the United States on an F-1 student visa. In March, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers detained Hoque outside his home based on a visa revocation and ter…

Habeas Relief Granted