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State of New York v. U.S. Department of Commerce

1:18-cv-02921 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 3, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

This was a legal challenge brought by an alliance of states, counties, and municipalities to the Trump Administration’s proposed addition of a question about citizenship status to the 2020 U.S. Census. The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit on April 3, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs alleged that the federal government, by asking census participants about their citizenship status, would deter undocume…
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…
POLICING
Payne v. de Blasio

1:20-cv-08924 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 26, 2020

Case Ongoing

This suit was filed by eleven New York residents against the City of New York and the New York City Police Department on October 26, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Legal Aid Society, the plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C § 1983 alleging excessive force and unlawful seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment, as well as retaliation for the exercise of First Amendment rights. The plaintiffs also broug…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Arriaga Reyes v. Decker

2:20-cv-03600 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a case about five men, aged 33 to 59 with underlying medical conditions, detained in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody who petitioned for immediate release based on their vulnerability to serious COVID-19 infection. On April 2, 2020, the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, but the case was transferred to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey after the court conclu…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hope v. Doll

1:20-cv-00562 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: April 3, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a hybrid putative class action and habeas action filed by a group of medically vulnerable individuals being held in civil detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at York County Prison and Pike County Correctional Facility. The plaintiffs seek safety remedies and release from detention in light of COVID-19. The court granted the plaintiffs’ temporary restraining order on April 7, 2020. Defendants appealed. The Third Circuit vacated and remanded the decisi…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC.

2:10-cv-01283 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2010

Closed Date: 2017

On September 29, 2010, a class of male employees 50 years of age or older filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"), 29 U.S.C. § 621, against Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for lost compensation in front pay and back pay, attorneys' fees and costs, declaratory and injunctive relief, lost pension benefits, and liquidated damages, claimin…
PRISON CONDITIONS
In Re HCV Prison Litigation

3:19-cv-00577 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2019

Case Ongoing

This consolidated, class action lawsuit brought by people in the custody of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) challenged the Department's Hepatitis C treatment policies and protocols. Eight named plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sued the NDOC alleging violations of their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit sought a court order requiring NDOC to identify and monitor inmates with Hepatitis C, provide medical care that me…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roppolo v. Linthicum

2:19-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 11, 2017, individuals with Hepatitis C detained by the state of Texas brought this suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its medical providers: Correctional Managed Healthcare Committee and the University of Texas Medical Branch. Hepatitis C, if left untreated, causes severe damage to a person’s liver. Yet Texas jails refused to provide Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) medications, which the plaintiffs alleged was the treatment needed to comply with the Eigh…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Barfield v. Cook

3:18-cv-01198 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, persons in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Correction suffering from the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), filed this putative class action lawsuit against the Department on July 19, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea was assigned. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought to represent a class of all people who are or will be prisoners in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Corrections, and who…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Abu-Jamal v. Kerestes

3:15-cv-00967 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 18, 2015

Case Ongoing

On May 18, 2015, a prisoner at the Mahanoy State Correctional Institute filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The complaint arose out of the plaintiff’s hospitalization for Hepatitis C. The plaintiff sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Bureau of Health Care Services of the DOC. The initial complaint claimed violations of First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The plaintiff claimed that, while hospitalized, the …