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REPARATIONS
Levy v. United States

12-01297 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 2012

Closed Date: April 25, 2012

The case is about seeking reparations for descendants of enslaved Black individuals. On March 14, 2012, plaintiff filed a pro se lawsuit against the U.S. government in the Northern District of California. Plaintiff, a private citizen and lawyer, filed on behalf of all descendants of enslaved Black people in the U.S. Plaintiff sought ten trillion dollars in damages, to be divided up between all descendants, as well as an official apology from the U.S. government.  On  April 25, 2012, Magistrate …
NATIONAL SECURITY
Shubert v. Obama

4:07-cv-00693 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: May 17, 2006

Case Ongoing

On May 17, 2006, American citizens who use the telephone and internet filed a putative class action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the President of the United States of America, the National Security Agency and the Attorney General under the Declaratory Judgment Act and Bivens. Represented by private counsel, they sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, claim…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
T.G. v. Kern County

1:18-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2018

Closed Date: May 20, 2024

This is a case about alleged abuse and failure to provide education to youth with disabilities detained at juvenile detention facilities in Kern County, California. Plaintiffs, represented by Disability Rights California and Disability Rights Advocates, sued Kern County, the Kern County Probation Department, the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, and two individual officials. They alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act (RA), the Individual…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CRIPA Investigation of Alameda County

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Filed Date: Nov. 7, 2023

Case Ongoing

On April 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division notified Alameda County, California, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, and Alameda Health System that there was reasonable cause to believe that the County’s use of institutional settings to provide mental health services to adults with mental health disabilities violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and that the conditions at Santa Rita Jail violated the Constitution and the ADA. Specifically, the Departme…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights California v. County of Alameda

3:20-cv-05256 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 30, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case was brought by Disability Rights California (DRC), a nonprofit corporation, to challenge the systemic institutionalization and segregation of Alameda County residents with serious mental health disabilities. On July 30, 2020, DRC filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and named the County of Alameda (the County), Alameda Health System, and Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services (County Behavioral Health) as defendants. DRC brought…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of California v. Trump

4:19-cv-00872 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2019

Closed Date: Aug. 2, 2023

In 2018, President Donald Trump asked Congress to appropriate $5.7 billion for construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. On February 14, 2019, Congress denied that request and instead appropriated only $1.375 billion. Although President Trump signed this appropriations bill, he simultaneously declared a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act, and directed the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and the Treasury to reallocate military and other funds in order to bui…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 2018 WL 1310160. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and several other government entities and officials, all under the federal asylum statute and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repre…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Barr

4:19-cv-04073 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the ability of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue new guidelines on asylum application procedures and whether DHS is allowed to issue a rule that asylum seekers must first apply for asylum in another country before applying in the U.S.. On July 16, 2019, four advocacy organizations — the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Al Otro Lado, Innovation Law Lab, and the Central American Resource Center — challenged a new asylum policy of the Trump administration narro…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
L.R. (Lucas R.) v. Azar

2:18-cv-05741 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 2018

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This was a pre-existing class action about non-citizen children in HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody. During the COVID-19 pandemic, plaintiffs sought emergency releases of nearly all such children, in light of the grave risk of infection in congregate settings. The court denied the plaintiffs' application for TRO on April 2, 2020. Those proceedings, and all other litigation in this case, are described in full below. This class action suit, filed on June 29, 201…