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Holden v. Zucker

801592/2021E | New York state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2021

Closed Date: March 29, 2021

This was a case about vaccine eligibility for incarcerated New Yorkers. On February 4, 2021, two people incarcerated at Rikers Island filed this lawsuit in Supreme Court of the State of New York, Bronx County. The plaintiffs sued the Commissioner of Health for New York State and the Governor of the State of New York under Article 78, the state’s analogue to the Administrative Procedure Act. Represented by the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, the Bronx Defenders, the Legal Aid Society, t…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose

2:20-cv-03843 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: July 31, 2020

Closed Date: May 20, 2021

This case challenged Ohio’s signature matching policy when processing election ballots. On July 31, 2020, the League of Women Voters of Ohio, the Ohio A. Phillip Randolph Institute, and two adversely affected individuals filed a complaint against Ohio’s Secretary of State in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The plaintiffs alleged (1) that the state’s signature matching practices for absentee ballot applications constituted an impermissible burden on the right to vote, (2) …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of New York v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:19-cv-07777 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 21, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several brought nationwide by States, counties, and nonprofit organizations challenging the Trump administration's revised, final public charge rule, which expands the types of programs that the federal government will consider in public charge determinations to now also include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs. District court judges from across the countries granted preliminary injunctions enjoining the government from implementing the public char…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
Robinson v. District of Columbia Board of Elections

1:20-cv-01364 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 21, 2020

Closed Date: June 20, 2020

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for information, see their tracker. According to their summary as of 09/06/2020, Washington DC's Board of Elections closed 14 of 17 polling stations in Ward 8, an area that is over 92% African-American, in response to COVID-19. Plaintiffs claim that since at least 2019, an unknown number of Ward 8 residents have not received mail-in ballots. The voters who do not receive mail-in ballots in …
JAIL CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
Agnew v. New York City Department of Corrections

21-813431 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2021

This case is about the lack of medical care at New York City Department of Correction facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Putative class action -- themselves and all similarly situated individuals consisting of all current and future people incarcerated in a NYC DOC facility who have been or will be denied access to medical care based on the defendant's failurePetition seeking a mandamus order compelling the Department of Correction to ensure access to medical carePlaintiffs are four pretr…
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 (see PC-CA-0057), plaintiffs sought relief before a single district judge. This has been granted in part; on April 10, Judge Mueller ordered the defendants to provide a strategic plan for achieving compliance with CDC guidance on managing COVID-19 in correctional detention facilities. On April 24, the court ordered the Program…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Taylor v. Milwaukee Elections Commission

2:20-cv-00545 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 2, 2020

Closed Date: May 12, 2020

On March 22, 2020, the Milwaukee Election Commission suspended early voting for the April 7, 2020, Wisconsin general election in response to safety concerns regarding election workers exposure to COVID-19. In response, Black city and state official candidates in Milwaukee, WI, along with Justice Wisconsin, Inc. ("the plaintiffs"), brought this lawsuit against the Milwaukee and Wisconsin Election Commissions ("the defendants") in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Libertarian Party of New Hampshire v. Sununu

1:20-cv-00688 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: June 8, 2020

Case Ongoing

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire and several of its hopeful candidates in the 2020 elections brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire on June 8, 2020. Plaintiffs brought their case against New Hampshire's Governor and Secretary of State. Plaintiffs alleged that their would-be nominees could not safely be placed on the ballot due to COVID-19 mitigation orders issued by the state. In New Hampshire, third-party candidates must secure nomination papers fr…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Novoa v. GEO Group

5:17-cv-02514 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2017

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action lawsuit over labor conditions in the Adelanto Detention Center. The plaintiffs filed a motion for a temporary restraining order on April 6, 2020, requesting relief from work for class members, or adequate protective clothing, antiseptic supplies, and testing, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The judge denied the motion for temporary restraining order on April 22. The plaintiffs moved for partial summary judgment on December 21, 2020, and the defendants…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Winston v. Polis

2020CV31823 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

On May 28, 2020, the ACLU of Colorado and the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Denver School of Law sued the Governor of Colorado and the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) for failure to protect medically vulnerable people in prison from COVID-19. Five named plaintiffs represented a class of "Medically Vulnerable Prisoners;" the proposed class consisted of current and future persons held by CDOC who were at a high risk of serious illness or death from C…