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PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Fitzharris

65-44786 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 14, 1965

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 1966

In approximately 1966, an inmate at the California Correctional Training Facility at Soledad filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff, who initially brought the proceeding on his own behalf and then was represented by court-appointed private counsel, asked the court for injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in …
POLICING
Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles

2:16-cv-01750 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 2016

Case Ongoing

On March 14, 2016, several homeless individuals (one with a disability) and two organizations that help homeless individuals filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the City of Los Angeles, seeking a declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, and damages under 28 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and state law. The plaintiffs alleged continuing violations of the plaintiffs' rights under the Fourth, Fift…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

4:21-cv-09586 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 10, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging a raid against approximately 200 black incarcerated people at the Correctional Training Facility, as well as the policies and practices by which incarcerated persons in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) are “validated” as suspects, associates, or members of Security Threat Groups.    On December 13, 2021, two incarcerated individuals filed this putative class-action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and similarly situated Black incarcera…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
CODING IN PROCESS
Tony N. v. USCIS

3:21-cv-08742 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: 2021

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)This putative class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for failing to renew work authorizations for asylum workers in a timely fashion. By not doing so, USCIS put asylum seekers and their families at risk of losing their jobs and related benefits. Represented by American Immigration Council, the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project,…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
S.A. et al v. Trump

3:18-cv-03539 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 13, 2018

Case Ongoing

Applicants and beneficiaries of the Central American Minors (CAM) parole program filed this class-action lawsuit on June 13, 2018, challenging the Trump Administration's termination of the program and its revocation of parole for nearly 3,000 children. Seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as that the defendants be equitably estopped, the plaintiffs alleged that the termination of the program violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), regulations promulgated by the Department…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Torres v. Milusnic

2:20-cv-04450 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: May 16, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a putative class action by originally brought by five individuals held at Lompoc, a low-security prison facing one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 among U.S. federal prisons. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants failed to undertake reasonable preventative measures, which allowed the virus to spread to 60% of those in custody. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief for improved conditions of confinement, as well as a writ of habeas corpus for…
DISABILITY RIGHTS/PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
Rose v. Mnuchin

4:19-cv-04254 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 24, 2019

Case Ongoing

On July 24, 2019, several blind taxpayers and the National Federation of the Blind sued the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs alleged that the Internal Revenue Service had sent them hard-copy notices they could not read due to their disability, leading them to incur tax penalties. The plaintiffs alleged that this issue may have affected more than seven million blind adults in the United States. The plaint…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Babu v. Ahern (Babu v. County of Alameda)

5:18-cv-07677 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2018

Case Ongoing

On December 21, 2018, detainees at California’s Alameda County Jail filed a class-action complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the County of Alameda in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued for violations of their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and California state law. The plaint…
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…
EDUCATION
Department of Education OCR Title IX Investigation of University of Southern California

09-13-2294 | No Court

Filed Date: 2013

Case Ongoing

The United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) received a complaint in 2013 filed by University of Southern California (USC) students on behalf of themselves and other students, which alleged that USC failed to respond promptly and equitably to reports of sexual harassment or sexual violence in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (09-13-2294). A subsequent complaint (09-16-2128) was filed by a male student against the university in 2016. The compl…