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PRISON CONDITIONS
Carlisle v. Bensinger

1:72-cv-03099 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 1972

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 1973

This is a case brought pro se by people held in the segregation unit of the Joliet Branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary in Joliet, IL. The plaintiffs filed their case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The case was assigned to District Judge William Bauer. The Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections was the defendant.  The plaintiffs filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, arguing numerous violations of the Fifth and Eighth Amendments. As for the Fifth …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bambenek v. White

3:20-cv-03107 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 27, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2020

This is a challenge to Illinois’ signature collection requirement for initiative referendums to appear on the ballot in light of COVID-19 which made it difficult to safely collect signatures. On April 27, 2020, named plaintiffs, the organizers of two unincorporated political associations, filed a complaint in the District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The plaintiffs were represented by private counsel and the case was assigned to District Judge Sue Myerscough. The defendants inclu…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Escalante v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

1:22-cv-00541 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 1, 2022

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)   This case is about ICE's alleged failure to provide COVID-19 booster shots to medically vulnerable detained persons.
EDUCATION
Cannon v. University of Chicago

1:75-02402 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 18, 1975

Closed Date: June 7, 1989

This is a case about a female medical school applicant who alleged that she was denied admission because of her gender and age in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and multiple federal statutes. In April of 1975, a 39-year-old female medical school applicant filed this lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Represented by private counsel, she sued the medical schools at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, as well a…
POLICING
Fraternal Order of Police v. District of Columbia

1:20-cv-02130 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2020

Case Ongoing

In this case, the union representing the Distict of Columbia's Metropolitian Police Department sued teh Mayor of the District Columbia and the city itself, challenging a local law that prohibited the union from negotiating police disciplinary rules during its collective bargaining process. D.C. police brought this suit under 42 U.S.C § 1983 on August 5, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The union alleged that the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Second Emerg…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Wilkins v. Aberdeen Enterprises

4:17-cv-00606 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Nov. 2, 2017

Closed Date: March 12, 2021

On November 2, 2017, individuals facing arrest because of their inability to pay their court fines and costs filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The plaintiffs sued the Oklahoma Sheriff’s Association, every Oklahoma county sheriff, and Aberdeen Enterprises, a private collections company. The plaintiffs sued under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and Oklahoma state law. The plai…
INDIGENT DEFENSE
State v. Covington

19-01494 | Louisiana state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2018

Closed Date: Dec. 11, 2020

In this case, a Louisiana appellate court held that courts could not lawfully assign lawyers (in particular, public defenders) a larger caseload than they could competently handle. The Public Defender's evidence in this case established that the Louisiana public defense system currently has the capacity to handle only 21 percent of its workload with reasonable competence and effectiveness. See State v. Spears, No. 2019 KW 1494, 2020 WL 1230134 (La. Court of Appeal, First Circuit, March 13, 2020…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Hodgkins v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.

1:19-cv-03469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 2019

Case Ongoing

The ACLU, the ACLU of Colorado, and the law firm Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, along with Towards Justice filed two companion lawsuits on behalf of eight pilots and flight attendants employed by Frontier Airlines in Colorado for failing to provide accommodations related to pregnancy and breastfeeding. The complaints challenged Frontier’s discriminatory policies and practices of penalizing pregnancy-related absences, refusing to provide accommodations to pregnant and breastfeeding pilots and f…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Fugazi v. Padilla

2:20-cv-00970 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 12, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2020

This is a case about voting accessibility in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 12, 2020, the plaintiffs filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the Secretary of State of California and the San Joaquin County Registrar of Votes. The plaintiffs, 36 individuals registered to vote in San Joaquin County, sued under the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as the Fir…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Common Cause v. Trump

1:20-cv-02023 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 23, 2020

Closed Date: Nov. 25, 2020

On July 21 2020, President Trump issued a memorandum titled “Excluding Illegal Aliens From the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census.” This memorandum included instructions to exclude undocumented immigrants from the state-population totals in the 2020 Census, and therefore exclude them from being counted when apportioning seats in the US House of Representatives and votes in the Electoral College. Two days later, on July 23, Common Cause—along with other interested groups, cities, and i…