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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…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia

59-04138 | Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: 1959

Closed Date: 1967

In this landmark civil rights case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state statutes banning interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In June 1958, two Virginia residents, Mildred Jeter, a Black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, married in Washington, D.C., pursuant to its laws. In October 1958, upon returning to Virginia, a grand jury issued an indictment charging the Lovings with violating Virginia a…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Vargas v. Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories, Inc.

2:19-cv-08108 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether touchscreen kiosk check-in procedures are discriminatory against blind and visually impaired persons. On September 18, 2019, two visually impaired individuals that relied on auxiliary aids and services brought a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories ("Quest") and ten unknown Quest employees for discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Diamond v. Ward

5:20-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case involved a Black transgender woman who was incarcerated by the Georgia Department of Corrections (“GDC”). In 2015, she successfully sued GDC officials after challenging its policies for failing to protect transgender people from sexual assault and failing to provide them adequate treatment for gender dysphoria. 131 F. Supp. 3d 1346 (M.D. Ga. 2015). After a parole violation, she was incarcerated again by GDC. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center subs…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Yang v. Kellner

1:20-cv-03325 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 28, 2020

Closed Date: May 5, 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 27, 2020, the New York State Board of Elections (BOE) by unanimous vote and in spite of executive orders from the New York governor, adopted a resolution to cancel the New York presidential primary election that was slated for June 23, 2020, while still allowing down-ballot federal congressional and state elections to continue. BOE's rationale was that this was in line with larger goals of avoiding unnecessary social contact, and that there was no…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Betancourt-Colon v. City of San Juan

3:19-cv-01837 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2019

Case Ongoing

This is a case about a lack of accessible curb ramps in the City of San Juan for people with mobility disabilities. On September 6, 2019, four individuals seeking to represent a class of people with mobility disabilities who used or would use the pedestrian right of way in San Juan filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. The plaintiffs sued the City of San Juan under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
United States of America and the Vulcan Society v. City of New York

1:07-cv-02067 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 21, 2007

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") sued the City of New York under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, seeking to enforce the right of Black and Hispanic candidates to be treated fairly in the application process for positions in the New York City Fire Department ("FDNY"). Specifically, the DOJ challenged the City's reliance on two written examinations that were used to appoint entry-level firefighters t…
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
Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC) or the Erie County Correctional Facili…
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…