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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

JAIL CONDITIONS
Roman v. Wolf

5:20-cv-00768 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: April 13, 2020

This case concerns the due process rights of immigration detainees in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center during the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 13, 2020, immigration detainees filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), and the warden of the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU of Southern California, the petitioners …
PRISON CONDITIONS
McPherson v. Lamont

3:20-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

Closed Date: April 23, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This is a putative class action brought on April 20, 2020, by five detainees at the Connecticut Department of Correction, seeking release from detention or transfer to home confinement due to elevated health risks in light of the virus. The class was certified on June 12. On July 17, the parties entered into a settlement agreement which provided for a variety of specific mitigation measures to improve COVID-19-related sanitation, hygiene, testing, and medical monitoring at eve…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Torres v. Milusnic

2:20-cv-04450 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

On May 16, 2020, five individuals filed a putative class action against Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S federal prisons, for immediate relief on behalf of a proposed class of all current and future people in post-conviction custody at Lompoc. The plaintiffs alleged that the Warden of Lompoc and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed to adequately treat infected prisoners and implement reasonable health and safety measur…

Complaint - Class Action for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief and Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

Torres v. Milusnic

May 16, 2020

Corrected Complaint - Class Action for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief and Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

Torres v. Milusnic

June 1, 2020

Plaintiff-Petitioners' Notice of Ex Parte Application and Ex Parte Application for Temporary Restraining Order and Order to Show Cause Re: Preliminary Injunction; Memorandum of Points and Authorities

Torres v. Milusnic

June 1, 2020

Plaintiff-Petitioners' Notice of Ex Parte and Ex Parte Application for Provisional Class Certification

Torres v. Milusnic

June 4, 2020

Declarations in Support of Respondents' Opposition to Ex Parte Application for Temporary Restraining Order and Order to Show Cause Re: Preliminary Injunction (Part 3/3)

Torres v. Milusnic

June 5, 2020

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings

3:20-cv-02731 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class-action lawsuit brought on April 20, 2020, by seven individuals in immigration detention at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility (MVDF) and the Yuba County Jail (YCJ), seeking immediate release from unsafe conditions of the jail in light of the global coronavirus pandemic. The court granted the request for TRO on April 29, requiring ICE to provide information and access to detainees to facilitate a process of considering bail requests. On June 9, the court granted …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Winston v. Polis

2020CV31823 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

On May 28, 2020, the ACLU of Colorado and the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Denver School of Law sued the Governor of Colorado and the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) for failure to protect medically vulnerable people in prison from COVID-19. Five named plaintiffs represented a class of "Medically Vulnerable Prisoners;" the proposed class consisted of current and future persons held by CDOC who were at a high risk of serious illness or death from C…
PRISON CONDITIONS
NC NAACP v. Cooper

20 CVS 500110 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: April 20, 2020

The North Carolina Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights North Carolina, the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation, and four individual plaintiffs brought this suit and petition for writ of mandamus against North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, and several parole commissioners. The suit was filed in the North Carolina Superior Court for Wake County on April 20, 2020. The complaint was filed amidst th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Whorley v. Northam

3:20-cv-00255 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: April 8, 2020

Closed Date: June 9, 2021

This lawsuit was filed on April 8, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, amidst the outbreak of COVID-19 that occurred early in 2020. The plaintiffs were twenty-seven people incarcerated in Virginia state prisons. Represented by the ACLU Foundation of Virginia (ACLU-VA) and private counsel, they sued Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran, the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections Harold Clarke, …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Committee for Public Counsel Services v. Chief Justice of the Trial Court

SJ-2020-0115 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: March 24, 2020

On March 24, 2020, the ACLU of Massachusetts, along with the Committee for Public Counsel Services and the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, filed this emergency petition asking the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts to take immediate action to limit the outbreak of COVID-19 in Massachusetts correctional facilities. Specifically, the petitioners asked that the Court exercise its superintendence powers under state law to: 1) reduce the volume of those entering Massachus…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Campbell v. Barnes

30-2020-01141117 | California state trial court

Filed Date: June 2, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

On June 2, 2020, six individuals in the custody the Orange County Jail filed a class action Verified Petition for Writs of Mandate and Habeas Corpus and Complaint for Injunctive Relief on behalf of themselves and all others situated against Don Barnes, in his official capacity as Sheriff of Orange County, California. The case was reassigned several times to different judges, who recused themselves, and was eventually reassigned to Judge Peter Wilson. In August, five of the original six petition…