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POLICING
United States v. City of New Orleans

2:12-cv-01924 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

In 2010, New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu invited the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to review civil rights issues at the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), and propose any necessary reforms. The DOJ opened the requested investigation on May 15, 2010, pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 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 March 17, 2011, the DO…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Arizona Incorporated v. Brnovich

2:15-cv-01022 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 4, 2015

Closed Date: May 8, 2020

This is a case about abortion providers and physicians challenging the constitutionality of a provision within Arizona's S.B. 1318 (the “Act”). On June 4, 2015, Planned Parenthood of Arizona, alongside a private physician practice and two board-certified obstetricians and gynecologists, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, seeking a declaratory judgment and preliminary injunctive relief on behalf of themselves and their patients. The plaintiffs sue…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Baxley v. Jividen

3:18-cv-01526 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: The plaintiffs in this West Virginia jail conditions class-action case filed an emergency motion for relief on March 25, 2020, seeking an order to require the defendants to develop, disclose, and implement a plan to take appropriate actions to protect the plaintiff class from COVID-19. The court denied the motion because it found that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim. On December 18, 2018, the plaintiff, a pretrial detainee at West Virginia…
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

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action originally brought by five individuals held at Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S. federal prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to undertake reasonable preventative measures, which allowed the virus to spread to 60% of those in custody. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief for improved conditions of confinement, as well as a writ of habeas corpus for release. On…
EDUCATION
Blackman v. Dist. of Columbia

1:97-cv-01629 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 17, 1997

Closed Date: Dec. 18, 2014

On July 17, 1997, several public school students with disabilities brought this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the District of Columbia, D.C. Public Schools (DCPS), the Chief Executive Officer of DCPS and Director of Special Education of DCPS,  to challenge the city public school system’s failure to comply with the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitat…
POLICING
Graham v. District Attorney for Hampden County

SJ-2021-0129 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: April 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

The ACLU of Massachusetts, the Committee for Public Counsel Services, and private counsel filed this lawsuit in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on April 6, 2021, representing people and groups affected by policing failures. This group comprised individuals who have been prosecuted in Hampden County, criminal defense lawyers, CPCS itself, and a bar advocate organization. The plaintiffs called for an investigation into Springfield police violence and misconduct, and sought assurances tha…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs

2:20-cv-01903 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

The Plaintiff organizations filed a Complaint seeking a declarator y judgment and Emergency Motion for a TRO against AZ Secretary of State seeking to extend the voter registration deadline to October 27, 2020. Without the extension tens of thousands of voters would not be able to register. The Plaintiffs' were successful in extending the voting registration deadline to October 2023, 2020.
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar

407-MD-2020 | Pennsylvania state appellate court

Filed Date: July 10, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2021

This case is about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on mail-in voting. On July 10, 2020, the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania and several Democratic politicians in the state filed this lawsuit in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, a state appeals court that had original jurisdiction in this case because the matter was about elections. The plaintiffs, represented by a private law firm, sued Pennsylvania under the state Declaratory Judgment Act, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief in sup…
JAIL CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation of the Boyd County Detention Center

N/A | No Court

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2016

Case Ongoing

On November 1, 2016, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division notified Boyd County officials of its intent to conduct an investigation of the Boyd County Detention Center pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The DOJ indicated that the purpose of the investigation was to determine whether prisoners are adequately protected from the use of excessive force, whether prisoners are subject to an invasion of their bodily privacy …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Coleman v. Brown

2:90-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 1990

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action for California prisoners with mental illness. After a three-judge court denied a motion for a prisoner release order as premature, plaintiffs sought relief before a single district judge. Relief has been achieved to an extent. The defendants have continued to comply with the broader injunction while staying mindful of the public health demands of the pandemic. In particular, the parties have been able to reach agreements concerning quarantine and isolati…