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DOJ Investigation of Trenton Police Department

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On October 17, 2023, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (collectively, DOJ) opened a pattern or practice investigation of the City of Trenton and the Trenton Police Department (TPD) under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 34 U.S.C. § 12601. The investigation assessed whether the City and the Police Department engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment, as well as unlawful stops, …
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DOJ Investigation of Mount Vernon Police Department

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On December 3, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, along with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced a pattern and practice investigation into the Mount Vernon Police Department (MVPD). The investigation would assess whether the MVPD engaged in practices of discriminatory policing. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 gave the investigators the authority to bring the inquiry. The act prohibited state and local governments …
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Illinois v. City of Chicago

1:17-cv-06260 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 29, 2017

This case established a consent decree related to alleged systemic misconduct by the Chicago Police Department.  On August 29, 2017, the State of Illinois filed this lawsuit against the City of Chicago in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003, and the Illinois Human Rights Act. The State brought this action on behalf of the people of Illinois to ensure that the City enacted comprehensive, lasting reform of th…
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United States v. City of Seattle

2:12-cv-01282 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

On March 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division opened an investigation of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (then codified at 42 U.S.C. § 14141; then recodified to 34 U.S.C. § 12601), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Following a comprehensive investigation, on December 16, 2011, the DOJ announced its findings that SPD engag…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Castaneda v. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement

2:25-cv-05209 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 7, 2025

Closed Date: June 13, 2025

This case challenges alleged unlawful immigration enforcement practices, specifically the sharp rise in immigration raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in California since November 2024. On June 7, 2025, the Director of the California Association of Family Services filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against ICE, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, President Trump, and t…

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People v. Armstrong

21-003294-FH | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2021

This criminal case involved whether evidence of a crime obtained only because of detention based on the smell of marijuana can be admitted as evidence in a criminal trial. On October 8, 2020, law enforcement officers approached a parked car because they smelled marijuana, which had been legalized in Michigan. They spoke with both occupants and instructed the defendant out, then conducted a search and found a gun under the front passenger's seat. He was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

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Phillip Killgore v. City of South El Monte

2:19-cv-00442 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 21, 2019

Closed Date: June 16, 2020

This case involved an alleged unlawful undercover sting operation and separate alleged unlawful search of a massage center. On January 21, 2019, the owner of a massage center filed the initial lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against the City of El Monte, the County of Los Angeles, and individual defendants alleged to be employed by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, the City of El Monte's public code enforcement division, and the California …
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Cottman v. Baltimore Police Department

1:21-cv-00837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 1, 2021

This case challenged the Baltimore Police Department (“BPD”) policy and practice of searching, seizing, retaining, and destroying the personal property of victims of violent crimes. On April 1, 2021, three plaintiffs filed this class-action lawsuit against BPD and the City of Baltimore in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Represented by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that BPD’s pract…
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Henry Minh, Inc. v. Indiana (Countersuit)

49D04-2405-MI-020041 | Indiana state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 2024

This case involved state police seizing property that was allegedly involved in criminal investigations without disclosing the relevant crimes or bringing charges. On August 6, 2024, a company that had mailed its property (including $42,825.00) through FedEx and subsequently had it seized by state police filed this counterclaim in Indiana state trial court against the state of Indiana and the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated. Represented by …