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POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
Ger Chong Ze Chang v. County of Siskiyou

2:22-at-00807 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This putative class action lawsuit was filed by four Asian Americans against the Siskiyou County officials and the Siskiyou sheriff’s department, alleging that the county waged a systematic campaign of racist hostility and persecution, including restricting Asian Americans' right to water and executing unlawful traffic stops, search and seizure practices, and property liens that are blatantly aimed at Asian Americans.
JAIL CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Howard v. Williams

2:20-cv-01389 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

(This is a temporary summary, while we research the case.) This is a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of people with psychiatric disabilities incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail alleging the jail failed to provide adequate mental health care and discriminated against people with psychiatric disabilities.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
CODING IN PROCESS
Pennington v. Taylor

2:19-cv-00695 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On September 19, 2019, attorneys from the Juvenile Law Center and Southern Poverty Law Center, representing plaintiffs who as children were tried and convicted as adults, filed a lawsuit against Alabama's Attorney General, the Secretary of Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, and others in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Plaintiffs alleged state's Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act was an unconst…
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'…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Dream Defenders v. DeSantis

4:21-cv-00191 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 11, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) The NAACP, ACLU of Florida, and Community Justice Project filed suit against Governor Ron DeSantis in the U.S. District Court of Florida challenging H.B.1, a state law designed to chill First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly following demonstrations against police violence in the summer of 2020.
PRISON CONDITIONS
Johnson v. Peterson

3:18-cv-00331 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a state prisoner, brought suit on February 12, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio against the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution (AOCI) and several of its employees claiming deliberate indifference in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiff sued AOCI, two of its lead doctors, and a registered nurse for allegedly refusing to provide necessary treatment for his worsening Hepatitis C (HCV). The case was assigned to Judge Jeffrey J…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Walker v. The City of New York

1:17-cv-03234 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 30, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case alleging discrimination and mistreatment based on disability committed by the New York Police Department (NYPD) and New York Department of Corrections, and several officers of each, in the arrest and detention of individuals with physical disabilities. On April 10, 2015, plaintiff, who uses a wheelchair, was arrested in his home and taken to Brooklyn Central Booking (BCB). During his 42-hour detention, he was deprived of his wheelchair and any accommodation to access food, water,…
EDUCATION
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YU Pride Alliance v. Yeshiva University

154010/2021 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: April 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research this case.) This is a case alleging that Yeshiva University violated New York City Human Rights Law by refusing to officially recognize YU Pride Alliance, an an unofficial undergraduate student organization forLGBTQ students and their allies.
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Rodriguez v. Todd Greiner Farms Packing

1:21-cv-00227 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

The plaintiffs, two farm workers, filed this class action case against a Michigan produce producer in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan on April 20, 2021. Represented by attorneys from the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center and the Sugar Law Center, they alleged that their employer violated the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA) (29 U.S.C. § 1801, et seq) and Michigan state law. According to the plaintiffs, their bosses forced them to work long h…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Reed v. Pitts Farms Partnership

4:21-cv-00113 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

On September 8, 2021, six Black American farm workers sued their employer, Pitts Farms Partnership in the US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Plaintiffs were represented by the Mississippi Center for Justice and Southern Migrant Legal Services. Pitts Farms hired white South African workers through a visa program sponsored by the U.S. federal government allowing foreign agricultural workers to be employed in the United States, so long as the employer treated foreign and d…