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JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. State of Hawaii [Oahu Correctional Center]

1:08-cv-00585 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2008

Closed Date: June 25, 2015

On June 16, 2005, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, acting pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, commenced an investigation into mental health care conditions and practices at the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Based on its investigation, the DOJ concluded that the conditions and practices at the Jail violated the constitutional rights of convicted incarcerated persons and pre-trial detained p…
EDUCATION
A.B. v. Hawaii State Department of Education

1:18-cv-00477 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2018

Case Ongoing

Two female student-athletes attending James Campbell High School filed a class action suit on December 6, 2018, against the school, the Hawai'i State Department of Education ("DOE"), and the Oahu Interscholastic Association ("OIA") in the U.S. District for the District of Hawai'i. Two more female student-athletes joined as named plaintiffs through an amended complaint filed on September 26, 2019. Plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU of Hawaii and Legal Aid at Work. The lawsuit was brought un…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Chatman v. Otani

1:21-cv-00268 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: June 9, 2021

Closed Date: Sept. 10, 2021

This class action lawsuit, brought in 2021 by persons incarcerated or detained in Hawai'i correctional facilities, alleged that the conditions in the state's jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic had contributed to multiple COVID-19 outbreaks and sought implementation of health and safety protocols. On June 8, 2021, this case was removed from Hawaii’s First Circuit Court to the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. On June 9, plaintiffs filed their first amended class action …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Chelius v. Wright

1:17-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2017

Case Ongoing

In 2000, the FDA approved the drug mifepristone under the brand name Mifeprex for use in terminating an early pregnancy. Mifeprex was the only drug approved for this purpose. However, the FDA subjected Mifeprex to a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy ("Mifeprex REMS") that burdened health care providers and limited patient access to the medication. The Mifeprex REMS provided that a patient could not obtain the medication by prescription at a retail pharmacy and instead had to be handed the…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Griffin v. Hawaii

1:20-cv-00298 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: July 2, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 8, 2020

This is a case about Hawaii's mail-in voting program. On July 2, 2020, a candidate for Hawaii's 1st Congressional District filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. The plaintiff sued the State of Hawaii. The pro-se plaintiff sought a preliminary injunction to delay the implementation of the "Mail-In" program that the State of Hawaii was instituting in the Primary and General Elections. Plaintiff claimed that voter fraud would result from ballots being intercepte…
EDUCATION
R.P.-K. v. Hawaii Department of Education

1:10-cv-00436 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: July 27, 2010

Case Ongoing

On July 27, 2010, four students with disabilities and the Hawaii Disability Rights Center filed this class action against the Hawaii Department of Education seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs, represented by Hawaii Disability Rights Center, contended that the Department was failing to comply with its obligations to provide a Free Accessible Public Education (FAPE) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and their right to a discrimination-free educati…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Hawaii v. Trump

1:17-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2017

Closed Date: Oct. 2, 2018

The below summary is a condensed version. The full summary can be found here on the Clearinghouse website. Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin filed this lawsuit on February 3, 2017 against President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2017 Executive Order (EO-1) barring legal immigrants, visitors, and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and barring Syrian refugees indefinitely. The State filed a concurrent complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. Distr…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. County of Maui Police Department

1:13-cv-00698 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2013

Closed Date: May 9, 2019

In December 2013, the EEOC brought this suit against the County of Maui Police Department in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) (29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq.). The EEOC alleged that the County of Maui Police Department did not hire a candidate because of his age (45). The EEOC asked for (a) a permanent injunction enjoining the police from engaging in any employment practices which resulted in discrimination on the basis …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Remmers v. Yoshina

1:02-cv-00451 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: July 22, 2002

Closed Date: Dec. 13, 2004

On July 22, 2002, a former pretrial detainee at Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) who was denied his constitutional right to vote in the November 2000 election filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. The Clearinghouse was unable to access documents from the court, but was able to gather the following information based on an August 15, 2005 notice published in Prison Legal News and a 2004 ACLU of Hawaii Litigation report. The plaintiff sued the state chi…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Hawaii Defense Foundation v. City and County of Honolulu

1:12-cv-00469 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2012

Closed Date: 2014

On August 12, 2012, the Hawaii Defense Foundation and two of its members filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. The plaintiffs sued the City and County of Honolulu, an employee of the Honolulu Police Department (HPD), and ten anonymous administrators of the Honolulu Police Department Facebook page under 42 U.S.C §1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought injunctive and declaratory relief, claiming violations of the First and Fourteenth Amend…