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Baker v. Florissant

4:16-cv-01693 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2016

Case Ongoing

On October 31st, 2016, a group of Plaintiffs who had been jailed for their inability to pay fines owed to the City of Florissant, Missouri for traffic tickets or other minor municipal offenses, sued the City for this violation of due process in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The Plaintiffs are represented by the Advancement Project, ArchCity Defenders, Inc., and private counsel. The Plaintiffs sued the City of Florissant, MO under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging violati…
POLICING
Pottinger v. City of Miami

1:88-cv-02406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 1988

Closed Date: Oct. 1, 2020

This case partially predates PACER. Therefore, access to documents related to this case is limited. On 12/23/1988, the plaintiff, as representative of a class of homeless persons, filed this § 1983 lawsuit against the City of Miami in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs' complaint alleged that the City’s police department had “a custom, practice and policy of arresting, harassing and otherwise interfering with homeless people for engaging in basic activi…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Meier

3:19-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 14, 2019

Closed Date: June 30, 2022

This is a case about two Kentucky laws: one banning abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, and the other banning abortion based on the specific reasons for the person’s decision, such as a fetal diagnosis. On March 19, 2019, EMW Women’s Surgical Center, P.S.C. on behalf of itself, its staff and its patients, and a its owner, on behalf of himself and his patients filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky Louisville Division. The plaintiffs sued the …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Davis v. Edmondson

CJ-2009-9154 | Oklahoma state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2009

Case Ongoing

On September 29, 2009, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), on behalf of two Oklahoma resident taxpayers, filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Oklahoma County (Oklahoma state trial court). The lawsuit challenged Oklahoma House Bill 1595 on the grounds that the law violated the Oklahoma State Constitution’s “single-subject” requirement and that its enforcement would unlawfully use taxpayer funds. H.B. 1595 included a ban on “sex-selective abortions” and established new reporting require…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Isaacson v. Brnovich

2:21-cv-01417 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

Case Ongoing

On April 27, 2021, the Arizona governor signed S.B. 1457 (the "Act"): legislation that limited access to abortions in the state. Two physicians who provided reproductive health care services in Arizona, the Arizona National Organization for Women, the National Council of Jewish Women, Inc., and the Arizona Medical Association (collectively, "the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit on August 17, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona challenging and seeking to enjoin enforcemen…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Horne

2:13-cv-01079 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: May 29, 2013

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2016

This is a case challenging House Bill 2443, which the Arizona Legislature passed on March 23, 2011. The act amended the Arizona abortion statute by prohibiting any person from knowingly: (1) providing an abortion to a woman seeking the procedure because she did not want to give birth to a child of a certain race or gender, (2) using force or threats to injure or intimidate a woman for the purpose of coercing a sex-selection or race-selection abortion, and (3) knowingly soliciting or accepting m…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Adams v. Carlson

3:72-cv-00153 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 1972

Closed Date: Feb. 28, 1983

This is a class action brought by four named plaintiffs on behalf of people incarcerated in the segregation unit at the maximum security federal prison in Marion, Illinois (USP Marion), challenging the procedures leading to their placement in segregation and the conditions in the unit. USP Marion was the most severe maximum security prison in the federal system and was where activists in other prisons were sent to be dealt with. In 1972, about 100 activists were transferred to Marion, in an eff…
PRISON CONDITIONS
In re Jackson Lockdown/MCO Cases

2:81-72151 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: June 1, 1981

Closed Date: Sept. 30, 1985

In 1981, a group of state prisoners brought a class action suit, Walker v. Johnson, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the State of Michigan; the Michigan Department of Corrections; and the wardens of Marquette Branch Prison, the State Prison of Southern Michigan, and the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia. The suit alleged that a lockdown imposed by prison officials in response to inmate riots severely restricted inmate privileges and resulted in conditions of c…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Booth v. Galveston County

3:18-cv-00104 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 8, 2018

Case Ongoing

On April 8, 2018, a prisoner in Galveston County Jail filed this class action in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The case was assigned to Judge George C. Hanks, Jr. Represented by the ACLU of Texas and private counsel, the plaintiffs sued Galveston County and various Galveston County officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff alleged that Galveston County’s bail policies—especially the practice of setting a high minimum bail and failing to appoint defense counsel fo…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Parga v. Tulsa County

4:18-cv-00298 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: June 6, 2018

Case Ongoing

Individuals incarcerated in the Tulsa jail sued Tulsa County, the Tulsa County Sheriff, fifteen Special Judges and a district court judge in challenging the constitutionality of the county's wealth-based pretrial detention system. On June 6, 2018, the four plaintiffs, represented by Civil Rights Corps, filed this class-action lawsuit in the Northern District of Oklahoma. The case was assigned to Judge Claire Eagan. The plaintiffs brought claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgeme…