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Taha v. Bensalem Township

2:12-cv-06867 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2012

Case Ongoing

On December 7, 2012, a former detainee of Bucks County Correctional Facility filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs initially sued Bensalem Township, various Bensalem Township officials, and the company that operated as mugshots.com, under Pennsylvania state law. The last amended complaint named defendants Bucks County and Bucks County Correctional Facility, along with Unpublish and Citizens Information Associates—the companie…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Kwesell v. Yale University

3:19-cv-01098 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This class action suit was brought on June 16, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The named plaintiffs, three union-member employees of Yale University, sued in response to the institution's Health Expectation Program (HEP). The HEP was created following new collective bargaining agreements with Yale unions. It provided that union members had to complete various medical examinations, screenings, and other requirements. If an employee chose not to, Yale would take …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Seaman v. The Commonwealth of Virginia

3:22-cv-00006 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2022

Closed Date: Dec. 16, 2022

This suit was filed in the Charlottesville Division of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia on February 1, 2022. The plaintiffs, a group of parents representing their children, brought this action against the Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor Glenn Youngkin, the Virginia attorney general, the Virginia superintendent of public instruction, and the acting Virginia health commissioner. They argued that Governor Youngkin's signing of Executive Order 2, which prevented state…
POLICING
Providence Youth Student Movement v. Elorza

1:19-cv-00378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

Closed Date: March 10, 2020

On July 16, 2019, the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) filed this lawsuit in in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs sued the mayor of Providence, the public safety commissioner of Providence, the chief of police, and the city’s treasurer for violations of municipal code and the Rhode Island Constitution in relation to a racially discriminatory policing project. PrYSM is a youth organization based in Providence’s Southeast Asian community, and it cla…
POLICING
Collins v. City of Milwaukee

2:17-cv-00234 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2017

Case Ongoing

Plaintiffs, ACLU national and the ACLU of Wisconsin, along with Covington & Burling attorneys, filed this class action alleging that the Milwaukee Police Department's (MPD) stop-and-frisk policies were unconstitutional. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on February 22, 2017. The complaint alleged under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that Milwaukee's stop-and-frisk policies violated the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure protections as well as the Fourteent…
POLICING
Pitney v. City of Chester

2:19-cv-00799 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2019

Case Ongoing

The plaintiff in this case was strip-searched after being arrested for a minor offense. He was not suspected of possessing drugs or weapons, and he was ultimately not charged with any crime, but the City of Chester's policy allowed police to conduct strip searches on anyone they arrested. In this lawsuit, filed by private counsel on February 25, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the plaintiff named the City of Chester and three police officers as defenda…
POLICING
Overbey v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore

1:17-cv-01793 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: June 29, 2017

Closed Date: July 19, 2021

On June 29, 2017, the Baltimore Brew (a media organization) and an individual who had previously settled a suit against the Baltimore Police filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. They sued the City of Baltimore and its police under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. Represented by the ACLU of Maryland and private counsel, the plaintiffs sought an injunction, declaratory relief, and damages, claiming that the City’s use of gag orders in police brutality settlem…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Keith v. Century Housing Corp.

2:72-cv-00355 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 1972

Closed Date: May 18, 2018

This action was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on February 16, 1972, to try to stop the construction of the Century Freeway, also known as I-105, in Los Angeles. Private homeowners who were set to be displaced by the construction and several advocacy organizations, including the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the NAACP, sued various state and federal agencies and officials and alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Ac…

Memorandum and Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

Keith v. Volpe

July 7, 1972

Opinion

Keith v. California Highway Commission v. Brinegar

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Sept. 27, 1975

Memorandum and Order Granting Plaintiffs' Counsel Reasonable Attorney's Fees and Reimbursement for Certain Costs and Expenses

Keith v. Volpe

March 31, 1980

Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction

Keith v. Volpe

Oct. 2, 1996

Corrected Memorandum and Order Granting Defendant Century Housing Corporation's Motion for Modification of Exhibits B and C of the Amended Consent Decree and Denying Plaintiffs' Motion for Modification of Exhibits B and C and the Addition of Exhibit D to the Amended Consent Decree

Keith v. Volpe

April 10, 1997

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PRISON CONDITIONS
Ruiz v. Estelle

4:78-cv-00987 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 1, 1972

Closed Date: June 17, 2002

This was a prisoner led class action which broadly challenged conditions and practices within the Texas state prison system. Issues covered included overcrowding, inadequate healthcare, unsafe working conditions, inadequate access to the justice system, and severe and arbitrary disciplinary procedures. The plaintiff’s 1980 trial victory was followed by over two decades of appeals and negotiations which culminated in numerous consent decrees. As one of the longest running prisoners' lawsuit in U…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights New York v. Wise

1:15-cv-00032 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2015

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s records access authority. On January 9, 2015, Disability Rights New York, New York’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.  Disability Rights New York filed this lawsuit against the Director of the New York State’s Justice Center for Protection of People with Special Needs (Justice Center), a state agency. Disability Rights New York filed this lawsuit under the Developmental Disabil…